TheBeerNerd
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Maiden voyage last weekend...
EightBall said:My Brew Sculpture
Hey puckard penguin, you have a build write up? I love the gas valves and those burners look like something i just have to do with my next stand. Nice build, man! Did you do the fabrication?
Im curious if that's a stainless square inset placed into a regular metal frame? My current stand has a problem keeping paint in that vicinity, and it makes me worry about rust. You have any problems like that?
As for the heat and paint issue, I painted my stand with 2000K high temp header paint and cured it best I could by turning on the burners with the kegs in place and checking the temp with an laser temp gun (cheap from Harbor Freight). However I have found after 10 or so full 10 gal brews on it the header paint just wont cut it. You would have to have it professionally powder-coated or build the top portion out of SS.
I do get rust but for now I will just deal with it. Sometime in the future I might get it re done with the correct paint/powder-coat.
Nick
You know I am not really sure, I would have to "assume" that under ideal conditions, preparation, proper curing, and dry times both paints would hold up just fine. In fact there are many on HBT who have great results with grill paint and header paint. For me personally I wanted a brewing rig and wasn't too worried on how it looked
Wheezer and EightBall you had me tripping out...
I saw Wheezers photos then Eightballs and said WTF its the same EXACT thing, but they are slightly different I guess.
are those brew stands sold as a "KIT" stand, pots, pumps, control panel?
or is that the elusive Brutus20 I keep hearing about but have yet to see.
-=Jason=-
Excuse me... I believe I ordered the LARGE thermometers!
So I have no idea about HERMS systems, why are there so many ball valves?
I think I've seen people use quite a bit of bulkheads but I haven't ever seen that many ball valves.
Here is my new rig that I sincerely hope to have done in a week or two.
The one behind it is it's evil twin we made from start to where you see it on 2/5/11 (8:30a-11:30p)
Thefloyd1970 said:$80 brewstand.
Please forgive the novice:
Why are the burners at different depths?
Option said:Wow...I finally got through all 123 pages of this thread and have taken too much inspiration from it, lol. It has caused my to re-design my rig about 100 times which has severely slowed my construction haha.
Thanks everyone for contributing to the community!
Here's my rig, just need to brew on it now!
This is my first post on this forum and would like to thank all who post here and share their time and knowledge. This post is awesome! I dont think you can find a bigger compilation of rig pics in one place. I've been working on this for some time now. Its finnaly come to its 2.0 version and has an integrated Arduino Microcontroller recording 11 temps into an access database. Arduinos are fun!
I have more Pics if anyone wants to see them.
Layne said:Just realized I never posted mine here.
Brew day.
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