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Well, got sidetracked by several other projects, and had some problems with the motor on my mill. I replaced the motor, adjusted the pulleys, etc. and took a crack at smoothing the ends out. It worked pretty well, the vise held everything nicely. However, there were areas that the cutter...

Like GilaMinumBeer, I think this is the way to go if you have a plate chiller. There are a LOT of different contraptions people have used to keep pellet hops out of the chiller and fermenter....even the best ones can clog. Some of them, like the HopStopper are actually under all the hot wort...

Nice. How well does it hold temp?

I know this thread is about silver brazing, but you might have better luck with plumbing solder and a burly soldering iron. You should be able to keep the heat pinpointed enough to tack it like a spotwelder. That high content silver solder is too damn expensive. I TOTALLY understand the desire...

3 phase rocks...I use a rotary phase converter for my machine tools. Took me a while to figger out, but it has MANY benefits over household electricity. The only difference between this and a single phase 240v build is that you are using 3 phase SSR's and breakers. Size your wires and breakers...

Not bad...if a guy has even a modicum of DIY ability, he can often get around the high prices that B3 and others charge for their boutique brewing equipment. Blichmann makes the Autosparge, which is essentially a stainless manual float valve...$35 on Ebay vs $80. Lots of these "brewing" products...

You should post pics of what you're doing. Brazing mesh sounds interesting....I had wondered the same thing. Spot welding is probably the most commonly used process with mesh. Anything with a flame is likely to overheat/melt the wires due to their small mass....not what you want to do with SS.

That's great! Good on ya for going relatively big from the beginning....everything I have read is that you need to be able to produce enough beer to keep up with demand and make enough $$$ to pay the bills (and yourself).

Pics or it didn't happen...lol!

I think that's the secret....you really can't expect one filter to handle all that junk......you need on to take out the bulk matter, then another for the fine particulates. I've considered making some kind of a Dr. Seuss funnel with all those stages in a row....

Yep....50A ckt in the 'ol ga-rage....no limitations. Have to double check but think I just bought a 4500w...it will actually fit in the horizontal position. As I work on other projects (I have DIY ADD).....I am thinking that steam is almost as much a problem as propane in terms of ventilation...

2 filters? Coarse and fine I take it?

Strut is some good stuff. I actually have been using it to weld with...I used a wire wheel to remove the galvanized layer from the last 2" of each piece. It still fumed a bunch but i made sure the garage was well ventilated. Also had problems here and there with porosity but still ended up with...

Nah...having 3 kids keeps me from doing coast to coast travel....

I hear ya.....going to take light cuts. The picture doesn't show, but the tube is well within the vise. The lathe is big enough, it's the fittings on the side that will create a dangerous runout. I feel safer running the horizontal mill with a skimming cut. As far as the vise, this one is too...

Because the sawblade deflected quite a bit since it was such hard material....there is a noticeable angle to the ends....plus there are some significant ridges. No way in h#ll am I going to stand there with a file and try to do it....at least not until I am done with re-soldering the tubes, etc...

I have no idea if the silver solder wicked down deep enough to still provide a joint around the individual tubes....I doubt it. The saw cut created a very irregular surface on the ends, which will make welding the ferrules on a lot harder....so I need to machine them flat somehow. Ideally, i...

Okay, so here's the latest....decided to chop the ends off and try again. I couldn't stand how ugly it was..solder was a pretty ghetto way to cover up imperfections and as you can see in the pics there was still some small spots of corrosion because I overheated the SS. It's all a learning...

I totally understand the "bug"...I've built several systems myself (of course not to this level of complexity/$$$) and know exactly what you mean by wanting to updgrade after one brew. Something doesn't work the way you imagined, and *pop* in comes another idea that you just HAVE to see through...