No experience AG 10 gal 1 tier rig build help!!!

[sanch]

I got the pictures and the valves back from my buddys machine shop. I love those guys, I give them a sack of stuff and tell them what i want and they bring me back finely machined beautiful parts that fit perfectly every time. by the time this thing is done I am going to have to brew for a week just to pay off my beer debts.

Here they are milling the hex off the end of a three peice valve.

Using a lathe to cut a tri clover flange off the end of a piece of pipe.

Getting rid of the threads on the valve end.

finished valve body end no threads ready for welding.

The Burro welding away he did not know about back gasing and i didnt think to tell him.
its ok i will take a die grinder to them tomorrow the sugaring is fairly minimal.and they are BK valves anyway.

I will snap a few pics of the finished product tommorow. I am also going to work on attaching the lower manifold section. there is a little grinding on the stand i need to do to make it all fit properly.

 

[sanch]

Well after much thought I decided to make the stand a little shorter. I was not happy with the rollers i installed before, and the casters i puchased would add 4 1/4" to the toatal height. and that made it just a little taller than I would like, I put this off for some time trying to justify the height. and finally bit the bullet and pulled out the big saw to chop it down.


Here is a shot of one of the rollers.

I ended up cutting 6" off of the frame, and the rollers "about one inch" and adding the 4 1/4" casters. that put the top of the keggle at 50" from the floor.this made the top of the keggles 3" lower than before , much better for a man of 5'9". If you have to cut your stand down I highly recomend this tool, It made short work of the job.

SWMBO took a few action shots, here is one of them.

Here is the valves my buddy cut and welded for me. Sorry i forgot to post them.

Here is the rig with its adjusted height, with the new casters and the lower wort manifold installed.

I spent all day yesterday at my buddy's machine shop getting a boat load of stuff done. Klaude came out and did some fine work on the gas vaves and the flash boiler water input. We got all the panels built, a handfull of tri clover conections made and the pumps mounted. I am hopfull that we might finish the gas and water input this coming weekend. I will post pics of the work done yesterday as soon as SWMBO emptys the camera. I always screw it up so I dont bother any more.

 

[Kahler]

GREAT STAND! any new pics?