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Much to swmbo's dismay, I've soldered over the kitchen stove many times. That said a propane torch makes the process 99% easier...

Monti.... I formally request that you fabricate a beautiful sculpture out of stainless and inconel for your MLT. :tank: People like me use a cooler mlt ;)

Alright finished off another semester of graduate sludge, so now I have some free time after work again :ban: I decided on my tap tower and finished it off this week: This whole thing was made possible after a friend sold me his nice old drill press (it'll get a full resto after this...

Now that I actually looked at the picture.... disregard my comment above :)

You could make an intermediate grate to place on the fryer stand that would support the keg.

Soldering anything to the skirt would be a bad idea in a direct fired kettle. It is largely disconnected from the thermal system within the kettle and will get inferno hot.

That's hot.

Really for a boil kettle, PID temperature control is completely useless. You can make/buy a pwm controller for really cheap and use it to control an SSR. In essence you would make your own high power simmerstat. It's common to see people use an expensive PID controller in "manual mode" to...

You could use 2 2500watt 240V elements and use a separate simmerstat for each element. I think bargainfittings has a thread somewhere on here where he uses 3 stove elements on one pot with each having its own simmerstat. You'd do the same thing except your elements would be immersed.

If the lead content worries you, you can buy "lead free" brass parts.

Sorry for the delayed response... It actually holds really well. I think it was from a roll of flashing I picked up from lowes.

Favorite HBT post of the week! Awesome idea.

I put some sheet metal on the front lip of mine. The link to my Mini fridge with front collar is in my signature.

You can make a 10gal batch in a 15gal kettle and a 5gal batch in an 8gal kettle. A 10gal kettle really doesn't help much in the world of multiples of 5gal brewing....

This is pretty much exactly what I do. You'll be cooling a very small space so the heat generated by the ac unit will be peanuts compared to the sun heating your south facing walls to 100+ degrees :D If you have a swamp cooler, that hot air will get pushed out of your apartment anyway...

I built the cooled chamber in my signature to solve our issues :) You could use a large cardboard box if you're just trying to maintain 60F with the unit you posted. Really though those are the same thing as a window AC....

Awesome; and you'll be able to brew beer after the zombie apocalypse.

The Vittles vault's are much cheaper too.... http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=23730&catid=818

Thanks Jeff! Guys start another thread for a shank group buy. Don't muddy this one. Mods?

I use hardware store rubber washers on my mlt and haven't had any issues at all.