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Alllllriiiiight! I finally got the gas manifold all put together and the chiller mounted. I forgot to take pics of the chiller so I'll have to add it later. So, I ended up using yellow teflon tape on all of my gas connections and haven't had any leaks. I went ahead and ran all three...

Thanks Kladue...I was at Lowe's tonight picking up the parts to my manifold and picked up some 1/4" copper tubing for the pilot lights. I took one of the pilot lights with me (the Q314A) since I thought I might need some fittings. There was a compression fitting including with the pilot light...

Hopefully, today I'll be picking up the pieces for my propane manifold and control box. I was going to use the yellow teflon tape to piece my manifold together but some are kind of against it and would rather use the paste. I've done other smaller propane fittings with the tape and haven't...

Have you done any tests to see how long it will take a low pressure BG-14 to bring 10 gallons of water to a boil. On other threads there has been talk of a significant loss of btu's with an increased boil time. I was going to solve this by leaving my boil burner on high pressure and just...

The valves are these (Honeywell VR8200's) and the temp controllers are these (Auber 2362). The temperature probes are on the same website and were these. As for the burner mount, I added the spacers because I needed to get the burner up that extra inch and a half. You could mount it right...

The only place for a bolt on the smaller burner is in the center post. I went to Lowe's and got a 65mm M6x1.00 bolt to replace the much shorter one that was in there. I used the longer bolt with a 1 inch and a 1/2 inch spacer with a lock nut. It's actually pretty snug.

I got the steel painted and the casters put on last night. One of my crossbeams was different than the others since I was just short on the original tubing. I bought the same size steel but it was zinc coated. The paint seemed to stick fine and looked good even right after I cured it in the...

All I did was drill a hole into each end of the angle iron that the 5/16" all thread would fit through. The tighter the better while still allowing it to slide up and down the all thread since the weight of the burner will cause it to lean one way or the other. I then used a 5/16" nut on the...

Yes on the wheels. I'm putting six 2" 75lb load casters on this thing. A little overkill but casters from Harbor Freight are pretty cheap and haven't let me down. I'm a castering fool when it comes to the stuff in my garage. If it's heavy, I build a base that fits around the bottom with...

The burners are mounted. I have some aluminum flashing that I'm going to make some wind screens out of for the larger burners. This should also contain the heat enough to keep the wood from scorching. Mounted burners: You can sort of see that the middle burner is sitting lower than...

I'm getting to the gas set up of my rig where I'm using the honeywell valves and pilot lights. The fittings and hose I can figure out but I'm curious as to where others have bought the black gas pipe? The guy at Lowe's said they don't carry any gas pipe for whatever reason. They do have...

If you notice, the last beam on there is different than the first five. Overall, I was about 4 inches short so I had to buy something to supplement. The bix box stores don't sell 1.5" square tubing but they do sell 1.5" zinc plated steel shelving frame so I got that instead. I'm coating the...

No prob on the SearchTempest thing. I'm surprised that not a lot of people have heard of it. I've pretty much stopped using eBay but it does do eBay searches for you too. The temp probes I made from parts that I got from both bargainfittings.com and mcmaster carr. The probe itself I got...

Cut the steel, notched out the 2x6's for the cross beams, drilled holes for all-thread for burner mounts and drilled holes in the angle iron that the burners will be mounted to. Next, I'm hoping to get the burners and pumps mounted. I'm also planning on putting a lip around the top that will...

I was thinking that the heat could transfer enough down my crossbeams and scorch the wood where it's set into the notches. I'm not that worried about it as it would cost me about $5 to replace the 2x6's and do something different if that were the case. On a side note, it's annoying that...

First child actually. I hate to disappoint but she's the most spectacular kid ever born. :D I'm probably going to be upsetting the neighbors in the next couple of weeks since the only time I'm able to get anything done with the stand is at night. The cold garage is calling my name!

Hopefully, I'll get some more work done on the stand this week. Spent the last few days at the hospital and I'm happy to announce, A NEW LITTLE BREWER HAS BEEN BORN!! Totally STOKED!!:rockin:

I've been working on my stand for a little over a week off and on and have made some progress (here). I have some 1.5" square steel tubing to make the crossbeams. The inside width of my stand is 24" so I'm planning on cutting the beams at 26" and notching out my 2x6's an inch on each side and...

Any problems with your tank freezing with that setup? I had my first experience with that on Christmas while trying fry a turkey. It's never happened before with that fryer and it was just the regulator that was freezing. I'm thinking that it was actually a problem with the tank being a little...

If you're using low pressure LP with low pressure burners then your btu loss shouldn't be that significant. High pressure has a smaller gas orifice requiring a higher pressure to push through he same amount of gas. A larger orifice allows more gas through and a lower pressure. Essentially...