Ok, tell me why I shouldn't buy one of these...

[tre9er]

Here's a 4mm thick 15 gallon aluminum stock-pot for $60+shipping:
http://www.instawares.com/aluminum-stock-pot-60.wdi-axs60.0.7.htm?view=list

or a 20 gallon for even less, 3/16" thick:
http://www.instawares.com/win-ware-80qt-aluminum-stock-pot.alst-80.0.7.htm

a 10 gallon for $35:
http://www.instawares.com/winco-40qt-super-alumnium.wdi-axs40.0.7.htm?Ts=0&view=&uid=&cid=

 

[hopsalot]

i used one of those when i first started brewing

 

[xeno]

Not really... Just making sure the OP has a reliable/accurate way to determine the actual wall thickness of the pot in question.

I was saying the maniacal laugh to the macrometer comeback was off topic.

 

[dunnright00]

I was saying the maniacal laugh to the macrometer comeback was off topic.

Inadvertent joke there, I meant Micrometer!!

Macrometer is much funnier there, wish I HAD thought of that... :cross:

 

[dcarter]

A caliper makes it much easier, faster, and infinitely more accurate.



I don't recall anyone posting, in this thread, anything about alzheimers... You sure you don't have it? Most of us are just warning against getting an aluminum pot that has too thin of a wall thickness. I've used a 4mm thick wall aluminum kettle without issue before. It's still in use by another brewer (who was using smaller aluminum pots before getting to use my old one). :fro:

Now ya done opened the debate can. Some people believe there is a link to aluminum pots and Alzheimers. Which makes some kind of sense, but there are plenty of notes and studies that say otherwise. So I would say use it. I did for a while... here's the deal:

When people saw me using my pot, the same pot that I had created them hundreds of batches of tasty beer, they freaked out. Yep, freakout out so much I stopped using my trusty old 10 gallon. But hey they make a killer HLT though.

If you use one, stay in the closet.

Nope. No alzheimers here, just a guy who reads the thread from the beginning. The post above was the first reply to the thread.

 

[Timaithis]

That's pretty precise measurements with a string on the inside of a cylinder when you figure you are trying to come up with a very small percentage of difference in the diameters.

Yeah it is close. I wasn't saying it is the best way to do it but if you don't have a caliber or want to buy one. And hey if it worked for Archimedes to find a really good approximation of pi you could do it if you are precise.