Recent content by Hockadays

what are you running glycol too as your fermenters dont look to have jackets? Are you happy with the finish inside the fermenters and brights?

sounds like you may have pulled a hole straight through the yeast cake and the bulk of the yeast could be still sitting on the sides of the cone. Did you open the tap slowly or fast. You could give the side of the cone a tap with something like a rubber mallet and see if you get any more...

I've been trying to work out how to do this for ages as everyone says SS kinks to easy. 1bad did you bend the coil in your first pic just by hand around the 12" pipe and did you fill it with sand or water etc to stop the kinks? Also what about using 3/8 SS .035 inside with 5/8 copper around the...

here is mine built into an old cabinet.

I had one of these auber ssr melt on one of the contacts recently as well. I dont think the are the best quality of ssr around. The replacement which was three times the price looks to be better designed. I have had no trouble with their pids though.

Looks pretty good, i'm in oz too, where did you get those tanks from and how much? I'm looking to upgrade my system to 150L. Hockadays

Have you got any pics of the soldered wire on the copper. Am thinking about doing the same..

Maybe a positive displacement pump..

I've got clovers all through my system and they are great. They do get hot. They make a little mess when you change them so I put a small bucket underneath when I do this. At finish of brew day I disconnect everything and put all fittings in a bucket of PBw to soak. With a bit of practice they...