I've been upfront about my general distaste for loading up homebrew scale brewing vessels with TC ports due to their cost and lack of accessory flexibility, but I've finally been broken down. We get calls every day asking how to put a diptube on to the back side of a TC drain port. This was what I came up with.
Please excuse the crappy phone picture, more coming soon.
It will press fit into any 1.5" TC port as long as there's no weld slag on in the inside. It works with our TC weld ferrules, the solder on radius ferrule, and the weldless ferrule also.
The major difference with this method is that you don't need anything clamped on from the outside and it doesn't require extra clamps and gaskets.
Even better, if you're buying a valve at the same time, you might as well pick up our EZ clean TC ball valves that have an integrated diptube. Boom.
Both options use 5/8" OD x 9/16" ID tubing which turns out to be plenty of flow in almost all situations. These can also be used for whirlpool returns if we move the 90 a bit closer.
Please excuse the crappy phone picture, more coming soon.
It will press fit into any 1.5" TC port as long as there's no weld slag on in the inside. It works with our TC weld ferrules, the solder on radius ferrule, and the weldless ferrule also.
The major difference with this method is that you don't need anything clamped on from the outside and it doesn't require extra clamps and gaskets.
Even better, if you're buying a valve at the same time, you might as well pick up our EZ clean TC ball valves that have an integrated diptube. Boom.
Both options use 5/8" OD x 9/16" ID tubing which turns out to be plenty of flow in almost all situations. These can also be used for whirlpool returns if we move the 90 a bit closer.