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I have had the strut to build this thing for a couple of months but finally finished it this weekend, phase 1 anyway, and I'm currently throwing it right into the fire by breaking its cherry on a rainy Sunday under my deck. The build was just strut and fittings, a 23 jet natural gas jet burner modded down to 12 jets (currently lit on the left end under HLT) and a 10 jet natural gas burner under the keggle, bip, and two gas ball valves.
I salvaged a regulator/quick disconnect from a old Sam's natural gas grill. I really like the convenience of natural gas especially since I've run out of propane twice in the last year while brewing with my old cajun cooker.
I can easily adjust the height of the jet burners by loosening two strut screws on each side and raising or lowering the strut bar the burners rest on. In fact, I was able to do this on the fly by turning off the burner under the keggle, loosen the two strut screws, raise the support bar up few inches, retighten and relight. Took maybe two minutes. The burners still need some adjusting but the 12 jet one heated 13 gallons of 60 degree water to 180 in about 30 minutes so I can live with it.
I went very minimalist on my two pump controllers which are just GFCI switches.
Phase 2 will be adding a Love controller/Honeywell gas valve to control the HLT.
I salvaged a regulator/quick disconnect from a old Sam's natural gas grill. I really like the convenience of natural gas especially since I've run out of propane twice in the last year while brewing with my old cajun cooker.
I can easily adjust the height of the jet burners by loosening two strut screws on each side and raising or lowering the strut bar the burners rest on. In fact, I was able to do this on the fly by turning off the burner under the keggle, loosen the two strut screws, raise the support bar up few inches, retighten and relight. Took maybe two minutes. The burners still need some adjusting but the 12 jet one heated 13 gallons of 60 degree water to 180 in about 30 minutes so I can live with it.
I went very minimalist on my two pump controllers which are just GFCI switches.
Phase 2 will be adding a Love controller/Honeywell gas valve to control the HLT.