Vittle Vault Fermenter Upgrade

I have been fermenting in a 13.5 gal Vittle Vault for a couple of months now and decided to upgrade it so I can transfer to keg with CO2.





I had some spare camlock fittings and pipe fittings so I took a dust cap for camlock and had a buddy weld in the thermowell. After fermentation I take out the thermowell and put in a barbed camlock that will be connected to the CO2.



The Dip tube is 1/2" SS from mcmaster-carr. I will use barbed camlock with hose to transfer to keg.



I got the bulkhead fittings from US plastics.

Nice! I've been contemplating adding a thermowell to my vittle vaults.

Nice, is the what you are using?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002DJOOI/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

do you have any issues with off flavors?

ParadiseBeer said:

Nice, is the what you are using?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002DJOOI/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

do you have any issues with off flavors?

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Lord no. They're FDA approved. You can pick them up at any Petco / Petsmart too.

ParadiseBeer said:

Nice, is the what you are using?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002DJOOI/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

do you have any issues with off flavors?

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Yes. That's what I am using. No issues with off flavors. I got them from petco.

What bulkhead did you use from them? link?

Looks really good. How did it work?

HHP said:

What bulkhead did you use from them? link?

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to HHP:

I used two different ones as I wanted to see if there was difference. There is a gray and black one in the picture. The black one the hex diameter was bigger and I had to shave down part of the hex to get it to fit in between the ribs of the lid.

Grey: http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=65954

Black: http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=65990

After I got them I found them on Mcmaster-Carr. There is a slight price difference. Here is the general page for tank bulkhead fittings on Mcmaster-Carr: http://www.mcmaster.com/#pipe-bulkhead-tank-fittings/=cn7v04




To wedge421:

I made first CO2 transfer last night and it worked well. I though I had the right size stopper with no hole in it to seal while the CO2 transfer was going on but I couldn't seem to find it. So I just took the airlock out of the stopper and put my thumb over the hole in the stopper. I also need to cut dip tube a little shorter so I don't pickup as much yest/trub but Intentionally made it long so I could fine tune the length. Overall I am very happy. No more trying to start siphon and with 1/2" diptube the transfer goes pretty quick