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The easiest way to build a "chassis" for an induction system would be to find a SS table that is not the least bit magnetic and put the coil under the surface and an induction friendly pot on top, on an insulator pad. Wala, invisible induction heating. Or one could cut a circle out of the...

Sorry I came down so hard. I didn't mean to criticize anyone individually. It was a rhetorical question. We all strive to make the best decisions we can and learn through our experiences doing so. Brew on!

No leaks. You can back flush it after brewing a dark beer by putting a hose over the open end and circulating PBW through it. Takes less time than disassembliing a TC fitting and washing it by hand.

Here's how to build a sight gauge. Costs about $15 and takes an hour or so. It uses 1/2" poly carbonate racking cane. Doesn't stain easily, tough, readily available and cheap to replace.

OP: one other thing... put a sight glass on the outside of the boil kettle so you can see what the flow through the mash is doing. You can also instantly see if the pump is too fast or too slow by watching if the level goes up or down while you adjust it. Without a sight glass, one is mashing...

So you had to ditch the Solo grain bucket and are now going BIAB for difficult brews ? Why don't people just build their brewing system from scratch ? Why buy these designer systems that don't really work ? FWIW, the grain bucket on Thing1 works great. Holds 15 pounds. Mashed 30 pounds...

See the comment I made about the shape of the Spike Solo mash tun here: Spike Solo Owner's Thread (post #55)

Sight glasses on mash tuns are an excellent way to gauge the hydrostatic head on the mash bed. They should be standard on every mash setup.

Not sure if people realize this, but tapering the grain bucket like Spike did on the Solo is terrible for causing mashes to stick. At any point in the bucket there is more area above trying to drain into less area below, meaning there is more and more flow resistance the deeper you go into the...

OK then. You are "preventing" a stuck sparge by giving the sparge water a shortcut through the bed that will leave the grain beneath the short cut un sparged. All you've essentially done is decreased the depth of your grain bed and ensured that the bottom of the mash isn't going to get...

Your design is super dangerous. If you over pressure the glass chamber either from fermentor pressure or CO2 tank pressure, you'll have flying glass.

What is the pressure rating of the sight glass and what kind of glass is it ?

OP: not sure why you need all this custom stuff. Your boil kettle is just a regular kettle with some Triclamp fittings. Buy a kettle, buy some triclamp bulkhead fittings and install them. Not sure why the sides are open on your grain basket. As far as I am concerned, only the bottom should...

I totally agree with this. OP has the TC on the opposite side of the outlet port. Wort will hardly move there and he'll be measuring wort that just came through the bed versus wort that just got warmed by the element. In my experience, the best place to put the controlling thermocouple is in...

You mean the mesh bags that are used to hold grain in BIAB and hops, ie hop socks ? They aren't "fit for the purpose" ? LOL. Those things are very prone to plugging and when they do, you have a huge mess on your hands. That is the worst solution.

Whatever.

I'll provide pictures and assistance to anyone who wants to make up public drawings, materials list, wiring diagrams, etc. Thing1 is the simplest, easiest to build brewing system around. Everything except the frame and the coil is off the shelf. I've looked at and brewed with a number of...

It's this one or something like it. I plugged the center hole with a 1/2" NPT plug and NPT nut. Actually, I had a stand pipe in it for a while, but it wasn't necessary, so I removed it. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32510236088.html I thought about cutting out 90% of the bottom of the...

Good question. I drilled a single large hole (1/2") in the bottom of the grain bucket, under the false bottom. So the mash liquid goes from the grain, though the false bottom, through the hole in the bottom of the grain bucket to the bottom of the boil kettle, where it is heated. Then it is...

It takes 20 minutes and $20 to add lid clips to any brew kettle.