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I empty my refrigerator icemaker bin into my ice chest / chilled water reservoir the night before brewing. By morning I have another bin full, and I dump that into the water - ice slurry from the night before. Drop in the pond pump and it's ready to chill. I've never had to purchase ice for...

Boiling temperature is lower at higher altitudes on account of reduced atmospheric pressure, as the steam bubbles have less resistance to overcome. At any given time moment in time, you'd need to know the exact barometric pressure to determine the boiling point. Altitude will let you find an...

That is funny. To get from my front door to the second floor, I go down three steps, cross the living room, go up two steps, turn and go up three steps, turn and go up 12 steps. Different run, rise, and width on each set. Yet no one stumbles or even notices. I guess we're just really well...

I think we're about equally divided between taping the probe to the fermenter with insulation, and using a thermowell in the beer. Using an old Johnson Controls analog unit, I cut a slit in the side of a stopper and put the copper probe directly in the beer. Probably not the best solution, but...

Hello, Kos, and welcome. This isn't what you want to hear. It's kinda like walking up to a pilot and asking "How do I fly an airplane?" You need some ground school first. Forums and videos are great, but not sufficient, in my opinion. Get yourself a copy of a basic brewing book, such as...

No, thats a "perndel" (PRNDL). Source: my grandmother. Any car with an auto tranny has a perndel.

How about one of those zinc-based otc cold remedies? FDA approved, known ingredients, easy to measure the dose. I'm a machinist, so I'm asking, not recommending here.

To get to the true cost, wouldn't you need to somehow figure in the projected useful life of the equipment? What would a train ticket cost if you had to recover the cost of the railroad in one trip? I'm not criticizing, just curious. Seems to me that if you brew enough, your equipment cost...

Yeah, I sure see that. I use mine for everything except the kettle while boiling. That sits on my old jet burner. It makes a good stand, even though the heat is electric. I fill by gravity and drain via pump, so I never have to move a hot kettle.

Heinlein's The Door Into Summer. Cold sleep to go forward, time machine to go back. Not very realistic, but a fun idea. Looks at the economics of time travel as well.

A good cop is nosy and suspicious. Just smile and wave, and be glad he is looking after the neighborhood.

You might take a look at the modular wire shelving at a diy store. The kind with tapered bushings for shelf height adjustment. They have add-on casters available, to make them easily movable.

Speakers are usually marked either 4 ohm or 8 ohm. Use the common and the wire that matches the speaker rating, and tape up the unused wire. You don't have a switch because you don't swap back and forth. Hope this helps.

I was employed as a calibration tech for a type of precision measuring machine. I signed a 2 year non-compete contract. The intent was to prevent me from taking what I had learned (paid for by employer) and the contacts I had made (also through employer) and starting my own competing business...

Time travel is not only possible, so far it is unavoidable. The trick would be stopping it, reversing it, slowing it down. As far as meeting your future or past self.... I dunno. It makes my head hurt to think about it.

Let's get rid of telephones altogether. If it's not worth sending a telegram, it's not important anyway. He said, as he pecked away at his Android phone.

Walmart, and I'm sure other places, sells a pre-quilted fabric about 1/4" thick. My daughter stitched me up a jacket and cap for my electric HLT. Three layers thick, and machine washable. Velcro closure, with slits and holes for valve, element, sightglass, etc. I haven't timed it, but it...

Yes, it does seem to make the husks sort of leathery instead of dry and brittle.

I never realized that conditioning the grain was part of LODO procedure. I first tried it as a dust control measure, which is quite effective. It just occurred to me that the fact that I never see doughballs might be due to the pre-wetting from conditioning, rather than underletting the strike...

Here's another: Terry Pratchet's Discworld books. They started as a satire on the whole sword and sorcery genre, but took on a life of their own. Sir Terry is no longer with us, but he left 40 plus books for us to enjoy. They weren't written specifically for young readers, but I wouldn't...