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Thanks for the info and the OP on this subject. :)

Very nice! How large are your batches, and about how much water are you going threw in the steam vessel to maintain/ramp up the mash temps and heat sparge watter? I'm trying to decide if this is something that will work for my system. I have 58 gallon HLT & BK but currently using 2 sankys...

It looks like the inner coil is about the diamiter of a korny keg the outer about the size of your average 5 gallon propane bottle, both work great for froming copper tubing. :)

Any updates on this topic? Were you able to replace your HLT altogether? I may have missed it in the previous post but the water that you were using as sparge water was it pulled from the steam vessel itself or circulated in via an outside water source?

My Mt tips and dumps into a trash can, shop vac for the hops in the BK.

Little late but this is a Diagram P-J drew up for my system that's the same size as the OP.

Time to buy a mill, when you get the crush right you will actually be able to lower the grain bill and hit your gravity's, assuming you mash & sparge processes are good.:ban:

2nd on the crush!!:D Mine is set at 035 as well and seems to be the magic number for efficiency and not having a stuck mash...at least in my system.

colored heat shrink I'm sure it can be found other places but this is just one source i found on line quick Google search http://www.buyheatshrink.com/heatshrinktubing/3to1adhesive.htm maybe a clear option you could make labels and protect them under it.

Many use electric elements rather than gas...I beleive there was some talk of using the convection elements if you search i'm sure some thing will come up.

I usually range between 85-89% 0.035 cursh stirring during the mash every 10 to 15 min. Stirring and recirculating before runing off again aftere each batch addition.

How much space is under the false bottom? I'm just wondering if it would help to lift it up off the bottom of the MT some, you may need to adjust your mash volume a small amount to account for the extra space but sometimes it helps.

I did back when I was playing with using an element to ramp up/maintain mash temps so I went back to using my coil in the HLT....kind of a stay with what you know and works for you mentality but the rest of my system is electric. Converted from gas and would never go back.

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I believe mine is 25' ish (it's been in there 10 years)it's copper, it works well you can allways throtle back the pump to increase the temp ups. Nothing against stainless it's prety:) but Copper will give you better heat transfer and save you alot of $.

Sweet:ban:

Any updates?:)

Sorry No idea on the Diab..I only did 1 bach with extract before I rounded up the parts and went all grain. Check your local scrap yard and beer distributers for stainless tanks and keggs i seem to remember buying kegs from the distributer (leagal) for around $30.00. I'm not sure what kind of...