Overkill
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That is a pretty cool thing you're doing. How much LODO brewing did you do before getting into this new project?
That is a pretty cool thing you're doing. How much LODO brewing did you do before getting into this new project?
On my 3rd tank now. Should have enough left to finish the last kettle (the BK, mash tun and hlt pretty much completed) and will need probably one more for the pipe work. I also ate a tank of helium tri-mix for the mig work but have some left.Damn, you did a crapton of work!! looks great!! must have gone through a ton of argon!
I know his posts well. His posts inspired me to start this project about 6 months ago once i saw what was possible. This is a near total clone of his rig, down to the same part numbers on all the electronics / pieces of equipment. Main difference is I'm building the kettles from scratch. His were manufactured by stout. But all the kettles have the same number of ports, DO probes, ph, flow sensors, pressure, nitrogen purging, CIP cleaning, pumps, valves, controllers, software interface, etc. This will be a fully automated computer controlled, scripted/program run system. Once the pipe work is started and the kettles get buffed out it will start to look pretty insane. You get some idea...No disrespect, some captivating work being done here, but you should check out Die_Beerery's rig if you want to see someone truly playing at the extreme fringe of "home brewing"...
Cheers!
That is true. It's easier to ignore this fact though. Most of my plumbing is 1", but there will be probably 10 instances of 1.5 to 1. I could insert reducers, just unsure if the performance gain will be negligible related to the trouble. I will consider it more seriously though going forward.Nice continued work... One thing though, generally best practice when you reduce from a larger size sanitary fitting to a smaller size fitting, you want to use a reducing adapter of some sort (even if the mating flanges are the same as your 1.5" to connections 1" for instance).
I’ll post one soon. Had a lot of other stuff going on the last few months but I’ll make an update soon. I expect the build to be done by summer which is a lot longer then I originally planned. But it’s coming.I'm fascinated by this thread. @Overkill, do you have an update?
lol god know's how much. Honestly i lost count because its spread out over 1.3 years now but if i had to guess probably 8K.Just went through all of the pictures. Wow, just Wow, that's all I can say.
How much has been spent on all of the components, gas, welding equip etc.. up to this point if you don't mind me asking?
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