I picked up one of these brew tables from HD when it was on sale yesterday after checking to make sure that 60 inches was long enough for all 3 of my brew kettles.
I am now in the planning phases for modifying this thing to work with my setup. I have 2 keggles and 1 15.5 gal bayou classic kettle for boiling. I'm all electric with an element in the HLT and the boil kettle. My mash tun is a bottom draining keggle with a right angle elbow kicking the wort back out to the front. I have a HERMS coil in my HLT and a control panel built up.
Currently when I brew, I set my control panel in a chair and my BK and HLT on the driveway. My Mashtun is elevated by 3 brick to allow the bottom drain pipe room. It looks pretty ghetto.
What I'm thinking about doing is first adding casters to make it somewhat mobile, mounting my two pumps to the bottom rack and adding a splash guard, and then somehow elevating my mash tun to allow for bottom drain or cut a hole so it drains under the table top. I would prefer not to cut a hole just to keep the table intact, but I'm not opposed to that if it is the best option.
I'm looking for tips on how to go about doing this. I have some ideas in my mind, but I want to see what the bright folks on HBT can come up with as well. Any ideas?
I am now in the planning phases for modifying this thing to work with my setup. I have 2 keggles and 1 15.5 gal bayou classic kettle for boiling. I'm all electric with an element in the HLT and the boil kettle. My mash tun is a bottom draining keggle with a right angle elbow kicking the wort back out to the front. I have a HERMS coil in my HLT and a control panel built up.
Currently when I brew, I set my control panel in a chair and my BK and HLT on the driveway. My Mashtun is elevated by 3 brick to allow the bottom drain pipe room. It looks pretty ghetto.
What I'm thinking about doing is first adding casters to make it somewhat mobile, mounting my two pumps to the bottom rack and adding a splash guard, and then somehow elevating my mash tun to allow for bottom drain or cut a hole so it drains under the table top. I would prefer not to cut a hole just to keep the table intact, but I'm not opposed to that if it is the best option.
I'm looking for tips on how to go about doing this. I have some ideas in my mind, but I want to see what the bright folks on HBT can come up with as well. Any ideas?