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I agree.
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BeerGrylls said:What about keeping a stir bar in the neck with a keeper magnet. When it comes time to drop out, just gently rotate the bar around the circumference.
What about keeping a stir bar in the neck with a keeper magnet. When it comes time to drop out, just gently rotate the bar around the circumference.
Is that a mirror on the ceiling?
Add a vibrator to the side? Can't take credit for this idea. I think passdown suggested it in a different application.
What about keeping a stir bar in the neck with a keeper magnet. When it comes time to drop out, just gently rotate the bar around the circumference.
Seems like it would weaken the neck on an inverted container holding 5g of water too much. Also, I can't imagine it's necessarily good for it. Still seems like a heavyweight mold wouldn't be a huge cost premium though.With a better bottle, one could hang it upside down, hang something heavy from the neck, partially fill it with really hot water, and stretch it out so the slope is far more severe. Better Bottles are shrinky dinks... heat them and stretch them any way you want. Look what my friend did to 2 of his:
To the OP....
Would you please just brew some beer and use the thing so we can all find out how it worked for you?
Looks pretty cool. Not sure I'd cut a hole in any of my glass carboys, but I am interested in the results. Even if the beer spills out all over the floor. I just gotta know man....
I JUST gots 'ta know.....
The longer he leaves it, the more of us that will start thinking he already has and just doesn't want to admit Denny was right
OP please show us the full fermenter already
He's dead I tell ya! D-E-A-D!!!!!! Oh the humanity! So soon! So young? So inventive! Tis a cruel cruel world we live in where tampering with another's tried and true product could lead to such horrible outcome. Damn you cruel world..... Guess he put the DIe in DIY? Oh well, I hear Kansas City sucks anyway.
With a better bottle, one could hang it upside down, hang something heavy from the neck, partially fill it with really hot water, and stretch it out so the slope is far more severe. Better Bottles are shrinky dinks... heat them and stretch them any way you want. Look what my friend did to 2 of his:
Yeah, the bottles are blow-molded from a bottle blank, the same way a soda bottle is. If you heat 'em without any support from the inside, they attempt to shrink back to their original blank.
The way to make this work is to maintain a bit of pressure in the bottle while heating it. Some sort of fitting which would allow you to feed in compressed air would be necessary. Heating the bottle evenly so that it conforms to its new mold would be the PITA. It isn't something a guy is going to be able to do with a heatgun and no fixturing.
Read entire thread. I laughed. I cried. Now my gears are turning.
15 gallon
5 gallon
Oh, and I have a full set of glass hole saws from my past obsession... fish tanks.
Those might actually work! Would love to see what you could do with them. On a side note what does your name mean?
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Those might actually work! Would love to see what you could do with them. On a side note what does your name mean?
Denny said:Be very, very careful. Generally the glass in a demijohn is thinner than a carboy.
Be very, very careful. Generally the glass in a demijohn is thinner than a carboy.
Denny is right, these are thinner glass. The green one seems really thin as it's quite light. I'm not sure that I need another project in my life right now (I am at work, sober, thinking more clearly than last night). I will hold off for now. I think it would work though. I've drilled many holes in fish tanks with 3/16" glass with no issues. Slow and steady wins the race.Be very, very careful. Generally the glass in a demijohn is thinner than a carboy.
Denny is right, these are thinner glass. The green one seems really thin as it's quite light. I'm not sure that I need another project in my life right now (I am at work, sober, thinking more clearly than last night). I will hold off for now. I think it would work though. I've drilled many holes in fish tanks with 3/16" glass with no issues. Slow and steady wins the race.
You got this! :cross: Whats the worst that can happen. Go home, drink some beers and then really think about how much of a man you are and get it done. Don't forget to live stream on youtube with a link posted on here.:fro: (seriously probably a really bad idea. I have seen first hand what a carboy can do to people and it has kept me from touching glass in brewing) What am I saying? Don't want to be a nay say'er! DO IT!!!!!
Nice. Can I send you the bill for the ER visit requiring stitches?
Come on Denny. Already got one casualty in this thread. Be more supportive and lets see if we can get two! Do it!!
His car is fast
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