Hi to all,
I am a looong time home brewer, long time lurker but have just registered to this great forum.
I read the good part of 40 or so pages from this thread, and most posts look to control gunk through filtering.
I have come up with a whirlpooling aid that may be quite easy to fabricate with a couple of feet of Stainless Steel Flat bar.
The point is to make a Stator that directs the flow to the center of the kettle.
Maybe three or four curves, I have drawn them to be the same radius as the kettle bottom and about 1/4 of the circunference.
Lets say that the leading edge -the side of the curve exposed head-on to the flow of the whirpool to be about 1" from the kettle side and the trailing edge about 2 inches from the side, the second "vane" Starts midway from the first, with the same 1" separation @ the leading edge, and 2" @ the trailing edge.
A third and possibly a fouth vane would complete the arrangement.
Vanes could be 1-1/2" wide (tall) and may be welded by means of small flats on top of the beginning and end of the overlap.
This arrangement may be dropped in place at the beginning of the whirpool for sanitation and removed once the wort has been colected from the kettle.
tests may be conducted of which would be the best location for the picck-up tube, but I would think near the leading edge of the third or fourth vane would be great.
I have not investigated if such a contraption exists or if it is covered by a patent.
If it is not, pleae feel free to use, just name it Chanoc...
On a more serious note, maybe somebody with drawing skills may draw it, somebody else with fabricaction capabilities may build a prototype and I´m sure that there will be no shortage of "Guinea Pigs" to test it.
Salud Amigos.
Chanoc.
I am a looong time home brewer, long time lurker but have just registered to this great forum.
I read the good part of 40 or so pages from this thread, and most posts look to control gunk through filtering.
I have come up with a whirlpooling aid that may be quite easy to fabricate with a couple of feet of Stainless Steel Flat bar.
The point is to make a Stator that directs the flow to the center of the kettle.
Maybe three or four curves, I have drawn them to be the same radius as the kettle bottom and about 1/4 of the circunference.
Lets say that the leading edge -the side of the curve exposed head-on to the flow of the whirpool to be about 1" from the kettle side and the trailing edge about 2 inches from the side, the second "vane" Starts midway from the first, with the same 1" separation @ the leading edge, and 2" @ the trailing edge.
A third and possibly a fouth vane would complete the arrangement.
Vanes could be 1-1/2" wide (tall) and may be welded by means of small flats on top of the beginning and end of the overlap.
This arrangement may be dropped in place at the beginning of the whirpool for sanitation and removed once the wort has been colected from the kettle.
tests may be conducted of which would be the best location for the picck-up tube, but I would think near the leading edge of the third or fourth vane would be great.
I have not investigated if such a contraption exists or if it is covered by a patent.
If it is not, pleae feel free to use, just name it Chanoc...
On a more serious note, maybe somebody with drawing skills may draw it, somebody else with fabricaction capabilities may build a prototype and I´m sure that there will be no shortage of "Guinea Pigs" to test it.
Salud Amigos.
Chanoc.
