So I was listening to Basic Brewing Radio last night in the car and they were discussing conical fermentors, and it got me wanting to get one, but I just don't have that kind of money to throw at something that will just save me from sanitizing extra carboys and racking canes. So it got me thinking about ways to MacGyver one at home.
Basically, if you take a glass carboy and turn it upside down, you've got a conical fermentor (in a basic form). The only problem is that you've got no opennings on the top. Well, it just so happens that I just recently bought a 3/4" diamond-tip glass cutter for a bathroom reno project, which would be perfect to drill out a hole in the top to insert a pipe for getting wort in, and blow-off tube for letting CO2 out.
The only problem is that, in the bathroom reno project, the glass counter top that I was drilling exploded, and I'm not entirely sure why (I was going very gently, with a drill press, in a slow up and down motion, and was using a small pool of water as a lubricant - it took me ~ 30 minutes to get through 1/4 inch when it exploded). So short end of it is I don't really understand glass cutting. Has anyone ever drilled a hole in a carboy? If so, how did it go? Do you have any advice? Where did you cut?
Thanks!
Basically, if you take a glass carboy and turn it upside down, you've got a conical fermentor (in a basic form). The only problem is that you've got no opennings on the top. Well, it just so happens that I just recently bought a 3/4" diamond-tip glass cutter for a bathroom reno project, which would be perfect to drill out a hole in the top to insert a pipe for getting wort in, and blow-off tube for letting CO2 out.
The only problem is that, in the bathroom reno project, the glass counter top that I was drilling exploded, and I'm not entirely sure why (I was going very gently, with a drill press, in a slow up and down motion, and was using a small pool of water as a lubricant - it took me ~ 30 minutes to get through 1/4 inch when it exploded). So short end of it is I don't really understand glass cutting. Has anyone ever drilled a hole in a carboy? If so, how did it go? Do you have any advice? Where did you cut?
Thanks!