Recent content by 501Lubovich

This thread will hopefully be starting up again. In the last 13 months I bought a house and my wife gave birth to our first daughter...Spare time has been very rare. I've made a bit of progress since the last photos I posted. I have a fermentation chamber controlled by a brewtroller lite. At...

Citric Acit + Flux = Easy Removal and Clean Joint Citric Acid + Concrete = Unfavorable Reaction... More update later, but for now, let's just say i won't be cleaning my garage floor with citric acid anytime soon.

Of course!

Well I started everything up last weekend and it all works. The intermittent pilot light does light the burner (we had to raise the sparker so that it was in the gas stream). The pumps run and the speeds controllers work as well. I did have a little trouble getting the pump to prime. Because the...

Thanks for the interest! Here are some more pictures. I had some trouble with the lids fitting. I bought the kegs on craigslist. Some guy had already cut a hole in the top and it was larger than the lids I bought. I have a friend who has been helping me and he bent some stainless tubing into a...

Stainless heat exchanger coil inside of HLT. Tri-clover sanitary fittings.

Brewtroller controller mounted on the stand.

Brewtroller controller. 12 x 12 x 6 inch PVC junction box from Lowe's (~$32)

Brewstand assembly as of 8/23/2011, zoomed out.

Brewstand assembly as of 8/23/2011. Still a lot more work to do, but a lot of progress.

Stand with shelf installed

Oak shelf on stand

Banjo Burners up close

Brewstand frame with two burners

This first picture is after i polished and before i started assembling everything this evening. Here is a picture of where i finished for the night I zoomed in on the lower half of the stand. I used oak for the bottom shelf and carriage bolts to play on the similarities of an oak barrel...