Staticsouls
When will the beer be free?
To answer your original question of can it be done, weldless heating elements no tc fittings no heat stick, yes. Get immersion water heating elements, for your water heater. Drill a hole so they fit, and get a lock nut off amazon. I use hwd camcos from HD and they have not given me any scorching in either my boil kettle or hlt (I use 120v 20a 2000w elements). Take care to ground the elements to the vessel when wiring them up, and use gfci, but other than that it was the easiest, cheapest brew upgrade ever! Honestly DIY it was cheaper than either my pump or cfc.