I have been splitting my 11G batches in two fermenter, too many times. I have been waiting for scratch and dent brewhemoth as the wife wont approve the $400+ purchase. My main reasons for the conical are:
So in your travels have you ever seen a smaller conical? The reason why I ask is because I have loads fermentors already but I thought I migt get a small "cone-shaped something" and build a yeast harvestor.
The idea is that I would pour in my sanitized water in to the fermentor and then pour that into a conical and dran off the trub and hops...
I have seen some plastic coffee hoppers for "big" coffee systems that might work but if you looked around a bit before deciding on this I would be intersted in what you found...
DPB