Help find an odd fitting (male beer threads) to mount a randall

[vimtoss]

Hi y'all,

I'm hoping to hard plumb a homemade randall from a tap tower and only found one example. I've been stuck looking for a fitting: Male 1 1/8 -18 UNEF (beer threads) to any NPT.. really anything usable.

Is this a real fitting, has anyone ever seen this besides on a tap faucet? Or can suggest a work around?

Thank you!

 

[vimtoss]

Bump?

 

[The_Bishop]

Looks like they plumbed the tube right to the randall.

 

[Cruman]

I know it’s been a few years since you posted this but I’m interested in doing this tower connected Randall. Were you able to put this together and find the right pieces? If so can you advise what pieces you used?

 

[SanPancho]

Two things- id put that sucker in the fridge. Up top and warm you’re just asking for foam outs.

as for connecting I think maybe try and use duotight fittings. They have one that connects to beer shanks. So shank to tubing to another duotight in the npt port of filter. Same thing on the way out.

 

[day_trippr]

I second the notion of using PTC fittings as it'd make it trivial to swap a Randall in and out.
But getting from what's likely a 3/4" npt on the filter housing to something like an 8mm / 5/16" push-in might take a couple of parts...

Cheers!

 

[duncan.brown]

How well does a filter like that mix the beer and the hops? I use one of those canisters for my carbon filter and both the in and out ports are in the lid of the filter. Without a canister filter in place to force the water down, through the filter, to the out port, I could see the beer just flowing through the area near the top of the canister and not really mixing with the hops.

It's probably about $50 more expensive than a canister and fittings, but have you considered this?

https://www.blichmannengineering.com/hoprocket.html
The fittings are standard 1/2" NPT which is easy to convert to faucet.

I'd second the idea to put it in the cooler to avoid foam, even though having it un-insulated looks cool.

 

[day_trippr]

The couple of filter-housing Randall's I've seen had a down tube on the inlet side to get under the hops, and a screen above the hops/in front of the outlet side...

Cheers!

 

[duncan.brown]

Ah, I see in this model for example: https://www.amazon.com/Draft-beer-Hop-back-Randall/dp/B00420MYS0

That's about half the price of the Blichmann, but it's plastic not stainless.

 

[day_trippr]

I wouldn't let plastic get in the way of saving 2/3rds the cost of a Hop Rocket, assuming you build one yourself

Cheers!

 

[tracer bullet]

The thread's over 3 years old by the way.

If someone's interested though, I think that odd thread size isn't what you'd look for. You'd want to adapt the shank sticking out the back of the faucet right? That might be an AN fitting, a quick search says it's an AN-12. Those can be adapted to NPT. When I see An fittings it's usually automotive fuel lines and similar. Something like this might be what is needed: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/aer-fbm2732

Could be a fun DIY. Yeah I'd go with a normal picnic tap for starters, be sure you wanted to up the workmanship at a later date (or not).

 

[day_trippr]

I'm good with thread "Re-Use/Re-Cycle"

 

[jddevinn]

If you're still looking it looks to me like they have a normal faucet shank (looks like it has external threads) that they drilled out the small ID and then tapped NPT (or non tappered BSPP/NPS thread) into the end.