Old busted wort chiller

[Ducker_brew]

Any hope for this?

 

[brew_ny]

sell it for scrap and buy another one

all the best

S_M

 

[day_trippr]

Obvious freeze damage that would require a lot of soldered couplers to fix.
Not sure it'd be worth the effort because you can only fix what you can see, and there may be fractures that open up in the middle of use.

Bad juju. I think I agree with the scrap thing...

Cheers!

 

[AndytheBeave]

I think thatvis a candidate for the recycling bin

 

[TeeJo]

Guessing it was hung in the shed with some water in ?

I would have a go at it, if that is all the damage, as shown. Tap down or squeeze the raised blowouts until they looked at least a little like they were level, and then solder the seams. Pressure test to a hundred or so PSI. If it holds at that, it will hold while you run water through it.

You could cut out each of the broken sections and solder in couplers, but couplers are expensive, and wont work any better than just closing up the seams, I think.



Yeah, I'm too cheap to chuck something like that !

TeeJo

 

[SpentBrains]

move south

 

[Spartan1979]

Nope.

 

[SpentBrains]

Nope.

Like Ofallon isn't south?

 

[Spartan1979]

Like Ofallon isn't south?

"Nope" was the answer to the OP's question.

 

[Ducker_brew]

Like Ofallon isn't south?

O'fallon MO or IL? Either way, its been sent to the scrap yard.

 

[Spartan1979]

o'fallon mo or il? Either way, its been sent to the scrap yard.

mo

 

[Ducker_brew]

Then have a wheach for me. Not sure if that's a seasonal or year round. Or go to earthbound on Cherokee, I try to make it there often.

 

[Elkobrewer]

Yep toss it not worth the risk of a leak after the repair

 

[brewbama]

I 'd repair it but use it as a pre-chiller in ice water. Run tap thru it in an ice bath and connect it via hose to another chiller in the wort

 

[masskrug]

Take it to you local scrapyard, copper is going for about $1.50 a pound.

 

[IslandLizard]

Guessing it was hung in the shed with some water in ?

I would have a go at it, if that is all the damage, as shown. Tap down or squeeze the raised blowouts until they looked at least a little like they were level, and then solder the seams. Pressure test to a hundred or so PSI. If it holds at that, it will hold while you run water through it.

You could cut out each of the broken sections and solder in couplers, but couplers are expensive, and wont work any better than just closing up the seams, I think.

Yeah, I'm too cheap to chuck something like that !

TeeJo

This ^
Except there's no need to test at 100psi. Water flows through the coil mostly unrestricted, there is not much pressure built up. 10-15psi from a compressor or CO2 tank is plenty.

Clean the solder areas with some fine sandpaper first, and extend the patches a little further down the cracks; you can see little rips have formed there.

A previous house I bought, had a hot water radiant heating system and I fixed about 40 leaks like those and way, way worse ones, all over the place. Some busts had occurred in coils embedded in plaster, so it was a bit more involved to get to those. Got it all to work!