Recent content by Mike_M

I recently bought two of these burners for my stands They are the 10 tip jet burners. They aren't exactly plug and play, but are made for natural gas. I have yet to brew with them, but I have run them through a few test boils. They put out a load of heat.

That looks fantastic. Nice job.

I don't have a Thermopen, but another Thermoworks digital thermometer. It is one of the best pieces of brewing equipment I own. You'll be very happy with your purchase, I'm sure.

My tower is very sturdy without the addition of any wood. I drilled through the top and used the four bolts included with my tower to mount it. I have had no problems at all so far.

What, no chewing gum?

Fair enough. Perhaps the stuff I got was just really crappy. If it works for you, all the better. :)

I would also caution against this. I recently purchased some 1/16" wall 1/2" ID silicone tubing. I didn't pay attention when I purchased it; I only bought it because I was buying other items from the vendor. The tubing is terrible. It kinks with the slightest bend. My other silicone...

I'm aware of the conductive properties of copper. The idea of the copper tubing is to chill the tower. This approach is supposed to make use of the conductive properties of copper to remove heat from the top (the tower) so that the first pour is cooler than it would be normally.

I installed it on my home computer a few days ago. I used alien to convert the .deb to a Slackware package. No problems with the install. I agree that the UI is fairly unattractive. Also, I find it to be sluggish (i.e., when scrolling). I may spend more time testing it out, but to be...

I'll be in my bunk.

It ran without problems for several hours after I made the initial post. Next up: using it to make a starter to begin my yeast bank.

When looking around at all the random crap I have in my house for parts to build a stir plate, I ran across an old USB hard drive enclosure I hadn't used in a while. I figured I'd give this a shot as it has a wall wart and an internal power supply that could provide 12V, 7V, or 5V to power a...

I was AWOL from this site for a few months towards the end of last year, so I missed some of the responses in this thread. I took a single 5' piece of 1/2" OD copper tubing and cut it in half. I fed the two tubes through the holes I cut in the top of the fridge (shown in the last three...

Thanks for the additions, WCrane. Are you able to fit two pin-locks in the fridge, or just one? I seem to recall I was unable to get one ball-lock and one pin-lock in at the same time. Nice tip on the utility knife. Just last week I used a utility knife to make a cut-out for my Love temp...

What I meant was that the fridge could not fit two ball-lock kegs without modification. I had to remove the shelf rails on the sides of the fridge in order to fit two ball-lock kegs. I've swapped out many kegs since I did this conversion, without problems. All of my kegs are standard...