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I bought a weldless thermometer/sight glass combo fitting and a thermometer to go along with it. Unfortunately I didn't include the length of the fitting when I chose my thermometer stem length and now I'm afraid I'm going to be too short. The stem of the thermometer doesn't extend past the end of the fitting.

Am I screwed? Will the water that flows into the fitting be able to produce an accurate temperature?
 
charliemurphy said:
I bought a weldless thermometer/sight glass combo fitting and a thermometer to go along with it. Unfortunately I didn't include the length of the fitting when I chose my thermometer stem length and now I'm afraid I'm going to be too short. The stem of the thermometer doesn't extend past the end of the fitting.

Am I screwed? Will the water that flows into the fitting be able to produce an accurate temperature?
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You need at least 1.5" of the probe to be in the pot.
 
Lbm said:
Why not just poke another hole for the thermometer by itself, instead of putting it in the sight glass fitting?
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Never been a fan of the thermometer at the end of the sight glass fitting. Just another thing sticking out too far for clumsy me to knock into. I second the idea of an additional hole for the thermometer.
 
Will you be heating spargue/strike water in your BK? If you have a HLT for that, I think youre fine. In your BK, you dont really need a thermometer to tell you it's boiling, do you?
 
bknifefight said:
In your BK, you dont really need a thermometer to tell you it's boiling, do you?
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No, you need a thermometer in you BK to know you're almost boiling and be there to prevent a possible boil-over. Once past hot break it's of little use until you start to chill. Then it's the thing that tells you it's time to transfer to your fermenter. Now a sight-glass on a BK is overkill in my opinion. Nothing a dowel with numbers on it won't do, and the dowel is a lot easier to keep clean.
 
AnOldUR said:
No, you need a thermometer in you BK to know you're almost boiling and be there to prevent a possible boil-over. Once past hot break it's of little use until you start to chill. Then it's the thing that tells you it's time to transfer to your fermenter. Now a sight-glass on a BK is overkill in my opinion. Nothing a dowel with numbers on it won't do, and the dowel is a lot easier to keep clean.
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You have a point on the boil over possibility. As fas as the chilling, a shorter probe might not give you a 100% accurate temperature but it should be close enough (if kept calibrated) to pitch, even if it is 3-4* off
 

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