Chill Wizard Inspired Pump/Chiller Station

[BorderBrewer]

Hi,
Here is a parts list for the fittings and camlock parts that I made from looking at the pictures of headfullahops's build. Pricing was found around the net. All credit goes to the OP.

 

[General_Jah]

I really love this design and plan to make a similar stand this weekend.

One question I have though is how did you attach the pine board to the plate chiller?

Is it glued or something?

 

[Jordo_nb]

This is what I used to attach the chiller to the board.

http://m.homedepot.ca/product/ProductDetails.aspx?productid=997375&lang=en

 

[AkBrew907]

Just wanted to say thanks to those who posted in here. Built a stand over the weekend, hoping to give it a trial run here soon.

 

[sarsnavy05]

I love the ingenuity! This would work perfect for my small batch and stove top recipes...

 

[headfullahops]

It's funny, after having posted this thread in 2013, I took a break from homebrewing because of time constraints. Now that I'm back, it looks like I got something started. That's pretty cool! I know it's been a while, but some people were asking where I got parts for everything. I got all the hardware, including the pump and chiller, from Bobby at brewhardware.com and the PVC, wood, and miscellaneous mounting hardware came from Lowe's.

I may be remaking the PVC portion to include a RIMS tube and PID controller very soon, too. Cheers!

 

[headfullahops]

You know what, I just thought that the oxy stone was a kit from Williams Brewing that was a stone on the end of a stainless wand long enough to reach the bottom of a carboy. I cut the wand to about 4" long with a tubing cutter and ran it through a compression fitting meant for a thermometer probe attached to a quick disconnect (both from brewhardware).

The wort comes out of the chiller, hits a thermometer probe, goes up to the oxy stone and out to the fermenter.

 

[crane]

You know what, I just thought that the oxy stone was a kit from Williams Brewing that was a stone on the end of a stainless wand long enough to reach the bottom of a carboy. I cut the wand to about 4" long with a tubing cutter and ran it through a compression fitting meant for a thermometer probe attached to a quick disconnect (both from brewhardware).

The wort comes out of the chiller, hits a thermometer probe, goes up to the oxy stone and out to the fermenter.

FYI, more beer or some other place sells aeration stones with 1/2" npt threads.

 

[headfullahops]

I already had the wand before I went to the pump/plate chiller setup, so I just repurposed it. It works better for how I have it put together than one attached to 1/2" NPT. I have it on a camlock QD and the 1/2" NPT version would end up back out of the wort flow. This way, I can slide the stone into the path of the wort coming out of the chiller. Also, I use the little disposable oxy tanks from the hardware store and the valve I have has a barb for a very small diameter of tubing (1/8" ID maybe?), same as the end of the wand. If I recall correctly, the 1/2" NPT stone has a larger barb on it (for connecting to medical oxy maybe?).

 

[brick_haus]

Great work guys! Are these things a little top heavy? Those chillers are pretty heavy, seems like mounting them as low as possible might help make them more stable.

 

[headfullahops]

Mine is not unstable at all. I've never had an issue with it wanting to tip, even with garden hoses and wort lines hanging off it. In fact, after back flushing, cleaning, and disconnecting everything, I literally have to use both hands to tip it over to drain.

 

[MX1]

total necro, but sub'd because this rocks and will work well for my BIAB setup

 

[MX1]

 

[Desert_Sky]

Nice design with the PVC. I did something similar myself but went with a thermo instead of an O2 diffuser.

Chillr

• Desert_Sky
• Mar 20, 2010
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[MX1]

I think at some point I will use a probe that reads the temp and run it through the pid