Recent content by CousinDupree

Inspired by emjay's massive missive, I decided to advance the cause by submitting the coating on my magnet to high-performance liquid chromatography to determine its constituents. Turn out that the coating is aspartame based! Food Grade! Sweet! Confronted with this information...

I've got one from GreatBrewEh and one from sun-pumps.com (sold as a recirc pump for potable solar water heating applications). They are the same- both re-badged Topsflo units. I see no evidence of any "special modifications for brewing". Only difference is price- $85 vs $59 delivered.

I have two of these, they work fine for me. I purchased the first from greatbreweh.com, paid $84 with shipping. The (cheapo generic) DC power supply they furnished was DOA, I just used a spare I had from an old external hard drive. I e-mailed them about it, but got no response. I got the...