I thought i'd share my revised brew kettle. This 5 gallon kettle is used for extract batches and sometimes as an HLT in all grain.
Last year I had cut the hole and installed a bulkhead from Northern Brewer. I was thinking about adding a dip tube / pickup tube to it. But looking at the whole set-up, it seemed that it would get pretty bulky on the inside. Originally there was close nipple through the kettle. A coupling holidng a washer and a silicon gasket to the inside of the pot and a lock-nut and gasket on the outside o the kettle with a valve.
After a year of leaving too much stuff in the kettle, or having to tip it or lean it i came up with a plan to have a dip tube, but not add a pile more fittings. I looked around and found some spare fittings from BargainFittings from an old project. Here is what I came up with:
New fitting set-up
Getting things put together
Inside complete
view from the outside
water test for leaks and ensure complete draining, about 1/8 inch left
Thoughts? Questions? Comments?
Last year I had cut the hole and installed a bulkhead from Northern Brewer. I was thinking about adding a dip tube / pickup tube to it. But looking at the whole set-up, it seemed that it would get pretty bulky on the inside. Originally there was close nipple through the kettle. A coupling holidng a washer and a silicon gasket to the inside of the pot and a lock-nut and gasket on the outside o the kettle with a valve.
After a year of leaving too much stuff in the kettle, or having to tip it or lean it i came up with a plan to have a dip tube, but not add a pile more fittings. I looked around and found some spare fittings from BargainFittings from an old project. Here is what I came up with:
New fitting set-up
Getting things put together
Inside complete
view from the outside
water test for leaks and ensure complete draining, about 1/8 inch left
Thoughts? Questions? Comments?