Fabricating a burner

[hugenjapan]

I work as a welder/fabricator of craft brewing systems and am currently building a 22" x 22" tank for my own home brewing. I want to drain out from the center of the bottom so I don't think a regular burner would work because there would be an elbow and a ball valve right where the burner would go. I'm wondering what people think of me fabricating a stainless tube to go around the elbow and valve with little holes for the flame to come out of. Sound safe or what?

 

[mattd2]

When I built my new BBq (kit set) I went to pull out the cast iron burners that I'm used to seeing (those heavy flat ones) and what I found was 4x stailess tubes with the end crimped closed and holes it it = exactly what you have described. I can't see why it wouldn't work but it might take a while of trial and error to get it right. Would you consider looking at using the jet burner tips, I don't know much about them but if you used sch10/40 pipe I would guess there would be enough meat to tap the holes and screw the tips in.

 

[hugenjapan]

Thanks! Ya I was thinking either little holes in the pipe itself or using little sprayers that we use on the sparge ring

 

[jhoyda]

The machinist in my shop made new burners for his grill. He used 3/4" sch 40 black iron pipe and drilled holes. The holes weren't as small as I would have guessed, probably #35's. You could do the same and use elbows to make a square burner.

 

[hugenjapan]

The machinist in my shop made new burners for his grill. He used 3/4" sch 40 black iron pipe and drilled holes. The holes weren't as small as I would have guessed, probably #35's. You could do the same and use elbows to make a square burner.

Did he mention how well it worked? We're the holes too big? I was just going to roll a piece of 1" sch. 10 ss tubing into a circle then add a tee to connect the ends and have an inlet

 

[jhoyda]

He said they worked great and he used a 1/16" bit.