Just made my own immersion wort chiller

[Cashscraft]

Not beautiful but itll do the job
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[Faseel]

Not bad for the first time. I know shaping the copper can be a pain. If you happen to have a corny keg handy they are great to use as a guide to bend the soft copper into a coil, but again if it works who cares what it looks like

 

[Cashscraft]

Thanks I wish I had a corny but have to get the wife on board with that one haha

 

[Cashscraft]

Now I want to hook up a pump for ice water but thats later down the road

 

[fugazzi]

That's pretty much exactly what mine looks like. Wobble wobble.

 

[Cashscraft]

Haha I olny saved like 10 bucks on mine, copper is not cheap these days I made it for $55

 

[phoenixs4r]

My first one looked like that as well. if you have not used it, and have a desire to make it look prettier, do it before you use it. The constant heating/cooling on them tends to make them a bit more rigid.

You don't need a corny, if you have a co2 tank or even a bucket you can have your girlfriend grab one end and you the other, forming it around the bucket. Or, you can go to a 7-11, or gas station, and tighten it around one of those concrete poles that are supposed to stop cars from driving into pumps or what not. You might get weird stares/arrested, but hey whats lift without embarrasing risk?

 

[Grimm]

you could also use it down the road as a pre-chiller and then make a "prettier/bigger" one as the actual chiller.

 

[fugazzi]

My first one looked like that as well. if you have not used it, and have a desire to make it look prettier, do it before you use it. The constant heating/cooling on them tends to make them a bit more rigid.

You don't need a corny, if you have a co2 tank or even a bucket you can have your girlfriend grab one end and you the other, forming it around the bucket. Or, you can go to a 7-11, or gas station, and tighten it around one of those concrete poles that are supposed to stop cars from driving into pumps or what not. You might get weird stares/arrested, but hey whats lift without embarrasing risk?

If you reform it after it's been used, does that make it brittle or just more rigid?

 

[phoenixs4r]

If you reform it after it's been used, does that make it brittle or just more rigid?

Probably neither, but it being more rigid would make it a bit harder to reform.

 

[BetterSense]

I made a 1/2" 50 footer this weekend. $70 shipped for the copper; used a corny keg as a form. I was thinking about weaving copper wire between the coils to make it more rigid and space the coils out a bit, but someone on here said it would get harder with time; not sure if that's true.

 

[Cashscraft]

Very nice, ill make a better, one day but mine works for now

 

[Zeus1120]

Sweet Pentax- is that an ME?

And the chiller ain't bad, either.

 

[BetterSense]

ME super with 50/1.4 and Olympus T32 flash. It does get used, just not for posting photos to the web. I wish someone made digital backs, so I could use all my classing 35mm SLRs more.