Recent content by rlodian

48 gallons? That's so 1400's of you. More modern conversions put a hogshead at about 238 liters (52 imperial or 63 US gallons). Still a lot of homebrew.

With tube diameter > 0.31, or so, you start attempting SQRTs of negative numbers

I was doing some re-plumbing and needed to reposition the head of my March pump. While the head was off I decided to open it completely just to verify that there was no crud inside. Well to my surprise there was crud inside. I should mention that I run a clean shop--oxiclean at the beginning...

I've built pretty much the racking arm Boerderij_Kabouter shows in his picture, but without the need for a weld. Rather than a pre-bent diptube I bent my own piece of stainless (as detailed in a previous post) to exactly the angle I wanted. Instead of attempting a sanitary weld of the tube to...

I needed one approx. 90 degree bend in a length of 12mm stainless that I will use as a rotating racking arm. I've never been shy about buying tools, but for just one bend I decided to try build rather than buy. After a little research I built the jig shown in the photos. I took a...

I haven't seen a mention of the Dallas Semi (Maxim) Thermochron in any of the threads about temperature monitoring so I thought I'd pass along this info. First the obligatory: I have no association with the manufacturer or any resellers, I just think it's a cool product. The Thermochron is...

You could run tubing off the sight glass, but your sight glass would stop being a sight glass. Try this experiment: take a drinking straw, put your finger over one end and push the other end down into a glass of water. Does the straw fill? No, not until you release your finger and equalize...

Have a look at this guy's system Emile's Home-Brewing site: My Brewing Setup In particular the hardware section with a description of his MPX-based volume measurement. He seems to have have a working version of this and a whole lot more.