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No, but i did hit my OG smack on for my standard 72% efficiency.

yeah this is weldless (thanks bargain fittings!). the threaded part of the element is about 1.25" across (which is also the size hole pol says in his e-herms build). so i've got a 1 3/8 step bit so i'm gonna get a 1" hole saw and have at it. getting to 7/8" for my spigot and thermometer/sight...

this is great stuff guys, thanks. i think i'm gonna do the 1" hole saw and then use a step bit to bring it out to 1.25" and then a dremel for more precise fitting. looks like it's time for a home depot trip...

cool. that being said, if i'm drilling a hole for a 1" water heater element, should i drill a 1" hole? or a 15/16 hole and dremel it out until the element just fits to make it more water-tight?

is there any reason not to use a bi-metal hole saw to drill a pot? i see most of the posts here mention using a step bit (which i used for the first two holes on my pot), but i gotta drill a 1" hole and i figure why not use a hole saw to save some time?

sadly i'm on the third floor of an apartment building. luckily, SWMBO is out teaching grad students all day long so i'll be done long before she gets back. i've gotta figure out what to do about where to ferment though -- right now i'm using the guest bedroom, but come june that's gonna be a...

Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Batch Size: 5.50 gal Boil Size: 7.00 gal Estimated OG: 1.063 SG Estimated Color: 34.4 SRM Estimated IBU: 30.0 IBU Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 % Boil Time: 60 Minutes Ingredients: ------------ Amount Item...

Excellent point! Luckily even though my pregnant wife isn't drinking, I can still brew her 100 gallons before December 31st!

now if i can just talk swmbo into naming it a hop varietal... :-D

just put a five gallon batch of porter to ferment, got the grains for my ipa mashing right now while i heat the sparge water. first time i've done two in one day -- must admit i'm pretty tired. a lot of lifting since i'm doing this stove top

i mean it's not beer, but it may be the best thing I "brewed" this year! fermentation is done in the summer!

i just hit over 100 gallons of home made beer this year, and only 10 gallons of which were either infected or dumpers. feeling pretty good since it's been just over a year that i've been brewing!

I actually wish there was an ace hardware in new york city...every time i go home they're so much more helpful than the big box ones.

awesome. there's one like three blocks from my house. thanks!

so i've been to about four hardware stores and either they know what i'm talking about (the local small mom and pop stores) or the home depot/lowes employees look like i'm speaking french to them. where do i find these things? or what do i call them to get people to understand? thanks!

so a few of the locknuts, couplers and elbows have the words china and some other stuff written in what looks like dot-matrix ink on them. should i try to get this off before i use them? how would i go about doing that? thanks!

awesome. just wrote you back. thanks!

a few millimeters at best. too small to measure with my ruler or tape measure even.

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Hey. Does anyone want to drill a 1" hole in my stainless steel pot for some money or beers or food or something? I just drilled two holes (for a weldless bargain fittings sightglass/thermometer adaptor and for a ball valve), but I need to get the heating element into it. Drilling the...