Recent content by bake3310

I built this wooden brew stand a few weeks ago. I made it out of 2x4's for the base and uprights and 2x6's for the top. I have the HLT and MT on 1/2 particle board and the burner on cement board. I don't need to heat water in the HLT because I have an on-demand water heater that puts out 175F...

I picked up a Honeywell non-programmable thermostat from Menards just a few weeks ago (I don't have the model number, but I think it was $20). The thermister was not surface mounted so it was fairly easy to de-solder from the board, connect some extension wires and resolder to the board. Like I...

another vote for bargainfittings.com. Ordered on Monday and delivered on Wednesday. Great prices and reasonable shipping charge.

I built the new stand yesterday. Here are some pics of the finished stand: The complete stand. I reversed the layout because of how the three legs of the burner were oriented. I also screwed the stand into the cement board to make it a bit more solidly located. The BK area with flashing and...

I brewed a Munich Helles on Monday and it has been holding at 50F since Tuesday afternoon. Full disclosure though, I did have to put additional 2-liters of ice in the main chamber to get the temp down to 50, but this design doesn't have active air-conditioning as much as it is like your...

I'm getting ready to build this: I'm using 2x6's for the top and 2x4's for the rest. I'm going to bolt it together with 2 1/4-20x4 bolts at each leg/horizontal point. I kept the height to the top of the BK low so that it would be easy to see in and make additions. The HLT and MT are on...

I built this one last week: http://perfectmancave.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23724 It I used 2" for the walls and even for the chambers. A 24VDC power supply can be wired up directly to the thermostat and if you're handy you can remove the thermister from the thermostat's PCB, attach some...