I'm done arguing against the "rib cage" designs all that but guys, please stop uncoiling the copper only to recoil it. The uncoiling process starts hardening the copper already and just makes it harder to coil. Drop the larger coil over your mandrel (the round thing you use to form the new coil) and simply tight the coil.
You have to uncoil to take measurements in some cases.
Guys, I have gotten some pretty good results with this new chiller design I made last week. I have done 2 brews with it thus far and the results are better than expected.
I used 22' of 3/8" Refrigeration tubing. I don't have pictures to show how I made it, so I will be as descript as possible.
I began by marking the center of the length of tubing. I then wrapped the tubing using a paint can to make the coils. I started at each end of the tubing and wrapped toward the marked center point. When I was done I had 2 opposing coils and 12" of straight tubing at the beginning end of each of the coils. Next I spread the coils apart a little and then meshed them together much in the same way you would do with your fingers like you are taught to pray when you are a little kid. After that I bent the straight ends so they went vertical and then bent the downturns so they would reach up, out of, and over the side of the pot.
Here is the finished product.
This will stand up high enough to reach out of a 7.5gal turkey fryer.
The results are kind of hard to believe but this was done with a timer last night so I have to just accept that I have created a fantastic chiller for next to nothing.
I chilled 5gal of wort from a boil to under 70* (67* to be exact) in just shy of13 minutes. I did immerse the pot in my sink, using the "spent" water to circulate a cold water bath around the pot. I also raised and lowered the cooler in the wort every few minutes to make sure that everything was stirred up nicely.
OR, you can take a "length" of rope or speaker wire and wrap it around your mandrel first to determine and mark the start / end points. Then start your copper coil at the upper start point and wrap around down to the half point at the other mark.
Beautiful.
Hi guys!
Today i bought 15 meters of 3/8" copper tubing which will be my future Rib Cage IC. The problem is that my tubing came with a black text on a side. How can i erase that text? I don't want ink in my beer (possible lead based ink?...)
Try some alcohol, (isopropyl),acetone, even nail polish remover, (re: scented acetone).
Should come off without abrasives.
After about 30 minutes of scrubing with isopropylic alcohol i managed to whipe the text off
Now, after another 60 minutes, i have a new (and my first) chiller, a rib cage chiller
15 meters (50' i think) of 9.52 mm (3/85") tubing.
hairless_mac said:I'm thinking about building a wort chiller and using a fountain pump to cycle the water. But my idea is getting a submersible pump and recirculating the water from a cooler with ice water and back into to the cooler to bring it back down. That way I'm not waisting a lot of water. My question is this.....does this sound okay or more like a hair ball idea. Any info or ideas?
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