cole parmer 75211 pump - question?

[sniperd]

A friend of mine gave me this pump:
http://www.coleparmer.com/Product/Cole_Parmer_Console_drive_115_VAC_50_60_Hz/EW-75211-10

He told me I just need to buy a pump head. I would plan to use this pump for all kinds of things on brew day, just moving strike water around, moving wort into the fermenter, etc.

I'm not sure what pump head to buy (and in fact don't have any experience using pumps), any thoughts on what pump head I should get? I've seen some on Ebay like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Masterflex-...155?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20ecac8abb

Is that what I want? And if so what would be good tubing for it? Do I need a filter on the end of the tube or anything?

I'd love to take advantage of having this pump, I'm just not sure the best way to use it so any tips would be appreciated.

 

[trimixdiver1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristaltic_pump

Not a very fast pump, might take while,,,

 

[augiedoggy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristaltic_pump

Not a very fast pump, might take while,,,

I'll say, some of the printers I service use this type of pump for ink and primer pumps.... Honestly, these are pretty useless in the brewing application unless I missed something.... extremely hot liquids will cause the hoses inside to stretch faster from the cams and they are ridiculously slow..... you would be much better off investing in something like an actual food grade 12-24v pump for about $20.... it would be about 100 times more efficient.
I would look at something like this and buy a power supply for it online or at radio shack for $5-10 if you don't already have one.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Solar-Batte...923?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19f08c836b

 

[ajdelange]

These are generally used for low rate metering of fluids for example tube feeding intubated patients, moving samples into analytical equipment and so on. The amount they can move depends on the tube size and the motor speed. Heads are designed to cover a range of tube sizes. I have one of these in the brewery and I use it to meter starter into the wort line during transfer of wort from the kettle to the fermenter. It does, at most, I think about 2 L/m at which rate it is making all kinds of noise. I also use it in the lab for metering multiple samples of distillate or beer into a u-tube densitometer for which job it is running a few mL/min. You can buy big ones that handle quite a bit of flow but these lab size ones are really designed for lab size jobs. Other than metering starter I can't think of a use for them in the brewery.

If you decide you want to go ahead with the purchase of a head you will have to check the pump specs to see which heads it is compatible with and what size tubing you need to work with the head you chose. The tubing is expensive and does not last for ever.

 

[sniperd]

Thanks for the input guys! Now with this data I think I will just give him the pump back and go for something else. If I had the pump head and everything for free, that would be one thing. You guys saved me a bunch of money and a lot of effort on something that would not have been worth it.