CFC without tapping brew pot?

[garrad21]

Well this weekend I was planning on doing my first AG batch. I put together my MLT no problem and just got home from Lowes with the makings of a CFC. Then it dawned on me... How the heck am I going to use a gravity fed CFC without tapping my new 60qt aluminum brew pot? I just spent a lot of money on the pot and I'm a little wary of drilling through it and messing it up. Does anyone have any recommendations of how I can use a CFC without tapping the pot?

THANKS!!

 

[DKershner]

Stainless steel racking cane to high temp silicone tubing primed and then connected to the CFC?

Could work, but I would strongly recommend drilling a hole. Take it to a welder if you feel weird about it. Some aluminum pots are not strong enough to be drilled though, so it may not work anyway.

 

[Homercidal]

I use my CFC with a siphon hose attached to a siphon tube made of copper. Some day I will get my kettle a spigot, but until then, the siphon works, just a bit more work.

 

[garrad21]

I made a 27' CFC and had 23' of copper tubing left over, so I decided to make a copper racking cane. I filled a fermenting bucket with water and attempted to siphon the water through the CFC. It was successful, but the flow was a little slow. I'll try it out this weekend and see how it works. I think it will suffice until I get around to tapping the kettle and installing the fitting.

Trying to pit the copper tubing through the hose was WAY harder than I thought it would be. My goal was a 45-50' CFC, but I could only get the tubing through the first 27'. I got so frustrated with it that I said screw it and cut the hose. 27' should be good enough to cool the wort with 63 degree tap water.

 

[Pubwilson]

I too have a CFC with no way to get the wort out of the ss pot. I just use a metal racking cane with high temp tubing from AHS. I sanitize my hads and mouth with vodka and create my siphon. Not ideal, but it does seem to work really well although, it is best to have a helper to either hold the cane up or the hose into the fermenter. I am ready to test my keggle soon as I get a pickup tube into it, so my days of siphoning hot wort are almost over!

 

[Homercidal]

I too have a CFC with no way to get the wort out of the ss pot. I just use a metal racking cane with high temp tubing from AHS. I sanitize my hads and mouth with vodka and create my siphon. Not ideal, but it does seem to work really well although, it is best to have a helper to either hold the cane up or the hose into the fermenter. I am ready to test my keggle soon as I get a pickup tube into it, so my days of siphoning hot wort are almost over!

If you use a "T" to start the siphon with, you don't have to worry about the wort contacting your mouth. The only parts are a Stainless T and a pinching clamp. There's pics around here somewhere.