Hi all!
First, brief backstory. Got a job assignment that put me in Africa for a couple years, so I decided to get back into brewing. I'd done some kit brewing almost 20 years ago in college, but after hanging with a friend who does all grain, I bit the bullet, bought a bunch of equipment, a couple kits to start with, and a variety of grains, hops, and yeasts. I finally got delivery of my stuff and am itching to start the first batch, but realized that I've got a couple little parts I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with....
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EDIT: I don't know what happened but the original embedded photo was huge. I've changed to a link with the photo on it in a normal size.
I know its kind of small but hopefully you can tell what everything is. 5 and 6 are a pair, I believe, with 5 having two females and 6 having two male ends. 8 and 10 are the same, one stainless, one brass. 7 is bigger and thicker than 12 but essentially the same. 13 is flat and 4 is labeled "lock nut".
The bigger tubing (2) is for pumping the wort into the boiling, I know this. I believe that the little piece of tube (9) is for attaching the bottling syphon to the bottling bucket's valve. Long clear tube (1) is for racking to secondary, I believe. I have tube clamps to put everything together.
(3) intrigues me. It is much smaller than false bottom for my mash tun, but I'm pretty sure I didn't buy the wrong size. I'm guessing its used in the boil pot, with hops? Not quite sure what its function is, but it does have a tube attachment on top. Help needed here.
The real questions are for the red gaskets. I think the ball valve is intended for use as a bleeder on my pump, to ease priming when I'm pumping out of the bottom of the mash tun. My boil pot doesn't have a spigot at the bottom, not a particularly relevant point here, I suppose. I've got a standard March pump and believe that the locking nut, 4, is used to tighten down the connection without the handle ending up in some odd position. The brass nozzle goes on the other end (outflow). 8 fits into 5, which fits on the pump intake, so what is 6 for? What's the best way (pictures?) to put the pump all togehter?
And I still don't know where the flat washer and two red gaskets go. Maybe with the lock nut?
This isn't the easiest question and the picture isn't the easiest to see, but maybe some of y'all can help me figure this out. Thanks.
First, brief backstory. Got a job assignment that put me in Africa for a couple years, so I decided to get back into brewing. I'd done some kit brewing almost 20 years ago in college, but after hanging with a friend who does all grain, I bit the bullet, bought a bunch of equipment, a couple kits to start with, and a variety of grains, hops, and yeasts. I finally got delivery of my stuff and am itching to start the first batch, but realized that I've got a couple little parts I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with....
Link to photo
EDIT: I don't know what happened but the original embedded photo was huge. I've changed to a link with the photo on it in a normal size.
I know its kind of small but hopefully you can tell what everything is. 5 and 6 are a pair, I believe, with 5 having two females and 6 having two male ends. 8 and 10 are the same, one stainless, one brass. 7 is bigger and thicker than 12 but essentially the same. 13 is flat and 4 is labeled "lock nut".
The bigger tubing (2) is for pumping the wort into the boiling, I know this. I believe that the little piece of tube (9) is for attaching the bottling syphon to the bottling bucket's valve. Long clear tube (1) is for racking to secondary, I believe. I have tube clamps to put everything together.
(3) intrigues me. It is much smaller than false bottom for my mash tun, but I'm pretty sure I didn't buy the wrong size. I'm guessing its used in the boil pot, with hops? Not quite sure what its function is, but it does have a tube attachment on top. Help needed here.
The real questions are for the red gaskets. I think the ball valve is intended for use as a bleeder on my pump, to ease priming when I'm pumping out of the bottom of the mash tun. My boil pot doesn't have a spigot at the bottom, not a particularly relevant point here, I suppose. I've got a standard March pump and believe that the locking nut, 4, is used to tighten down the connection without the handle ending up in some odd position. The brass nozzle goes on the other end (outflow). 8 fits into 5, which fits on the pump intake, so what is 6 for? What's the best way (pictures?) to put the pump all togehter?
And I still don't know where the flat washer and two red gaskets go. Maybe with the lock nut?
This isn't the easiest question and the picture isn't the easiest to see, but maybe some of y'all can help me figure this out. Thanks.
