Buh-bye, Carboy Brush

[SkyHighBrew88]

Ah nice. Yeah zip-ties seem cheap & easy.

 

[socalboomer]

Lowes and hd sell threaded rods. Those should work.

You'd want to come up with a way to safeguard the neck of your carboy - the threads would chew it up if they came up against it, and they will probably come up against it.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

So if you don't have a die to cut threads, are these easy to find or are they better cut by someone for a fee?

I bought a 1/4-20 die from my local Fleet Farm today for $2.49. The material for the entire project, including the shammy and the die, was under ten bucks.

 

[SkyHighBrew88]

I bought a 1/4-20 die from my local Fleet Farm today for $2.49. The material for the entire project, including the shammy and the die, was under ten bucks.

Nice! For ten bucks why not have one, sure beats $30. There are always a brew here & there that's harder to clean than my brush can reach even if you do use oxyclean.

 

[joeybeer]

Great build ! I'll third wanting the PBW recipe !

 

[brrman]

Great build ! I'll third wanting the PBW recipe !

Unscented Oxyclean works as well as PBW. PBW has some additional ingredients, but for our purposes the unscented Oxyclean works great. I stopped buying PBW a couple years ago now.

 

[millstone]

You'd want to come up with a way to safeguard the neck of your carboy - the threads would chew it up if they came up against it, and they will probably come up against it.

I went the 3/8" threaded rod route, I slipped 3/8" ID tubing over the length of the rod leaving the top 1" exposed. If everything works out OK, I plan on grinding three flat spots at the top of the rod for the drill chuck.

thanks for the idea.

tom

 

[Skagdog]

I went the 3/8" threaded rod route, I slipped 3/8" ID tubing over the length of the rod leaving the top 1" exposed. If everything works out OK, I plan on grinding three flat spots at the top of the rod for the drill chuck.

thanks for the idea.

tom

Tubing works good. What also works is a cork that's drilled out bigger than the rod diameter. It just depends on what you have laying around, I guess...

 

[Dirtie]

Here's another version. Not saying yours is bad but just another variation. I used a scotch brute pad that I cut into strips and used 1/4" threaded rod. Clear vanilla tubing covers the rod to keep from damaging my carboy neck. The whole thing cost about 3.50 and took me 5 mins to build here at work. Ace is the place.

 

[Dirtie]

Brite* sorry

 

[Dirtie]

Brite* sorry

And vinyl*. Dang auto correct.

 

[RDWHAHB]

Good work. I'll have to do this.

 

[Zamial]

I plan on building one of these much like Dirtie's build but with shammy cloths like the original.

 

[Thundercougarfalconbird]

I'd like a 4ft one of these to clean the inside of a sanke

 

[Schumed]

Plan on building this..my carboy's have been neglected...soaking isn't getting the job done

 

[Dougie63]

awsome!!!!

 

[Skagdog]

Plan on building this..my carboy's have been neglected...soaking isn't getting the job done

Just remember not to use your drill on full blast. You'll wrap the shammy around the shaft. Just throttle it until you find the sweet spot.

 

[Schumed]

I used the scotchbrite pads. Worked well

cost me $4.78 to make

 

[william_shakes_beer]

I want to make a tiny one for the E flask. Getting the bottom of that thing clean is a bear.

 

[ArcticBear]

great idea, i'll be tackling this project in a week or two... like one for the cornys and one for the carboys

 

[neckbeardbeer]

Anyone use this with better bottles? Concerns with scratching?

 

[LarryC]

Anyone use this with better bottles? Concerns with scratching?

Came across this thread and was wondering the same thing and since no one answered neckbeard, I figured I'd bounce this thread back to life...

 

[fireslayer]

Nice looking build.

 

[Skagdog]

Anyone use this with better bottles? Concerns with scratching?

I used a shammy cloth (Sham-wow!) and it doesn't scratch anything. I actually don't use this as much as I thought I would being that a overnight oxy soak gets everything. I use it if I have to do a quick turn on one of my ferms so keep the pipeline flowing.