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I built this wooden brew stand a few weeks ago. I made it out of 2x4's for the base and uprights and 2x6's for the top. I have the HLT and MT on 1/2 particle board and the burner on cement board. I don't need to heat water in the HLT because I have an on-demand water heater that puts out 175F...

I picked up a Honeywell non-programmable thermostat from Menards just a few weeks ago (I don't have the model number, but I think it was $20). The thermister was not surface mounted so it was fairly easy to de-solder from the board, connect some extension wires and resolder to the board. Like I...

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I built the new stand yesterday. Here are some pics of the finished stand: The complete stand. I reversed the layout because of how the three legs of the burner were oriented. I also screwed the stand into the cement board to make it a bit more solidly located. The BK area with flashing and...

I brewed a Munich Helles on Monday and it has been holding at 50F since Tuesday afternoon. Full disclosure though, I did have to put additional 2-liters of ice in the main chamber to get the temp down to 50, but this design doesn't have active air-conditioning as much as it is like your...

I'm getting ready to build this: I'm using 2x6's for the top and 2x4's for the rest. I'm going to bolt it together with 2 1/4-20x4 bolts at each leg/horizontal point. I kept the height to the top of the BK low so that it would be easy to see in and make additions. The HLT and MT are on...

I built this one last week: http://perfectmancave.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23724 It I used 2" for the walls and even for the chambers. A 24VDC power supply can be wired up directly to the thermostat and if you're handy you can remove the thermister from the thermostat's PCB, attach some...