stephelton
Well-Known Member
I'll keep this short, and spare you the story of my frustrations today. Suffice it to say that I will be wary in the future before deciding it's necessary to learn again how much fun soldering copper can be.
I just finished making a large immersion cooler out of 50' of 5/8" OD copper. It involved four 90 degree elbows and required some soldering.
I used non-lead acid flux and solder. I'm still concerned about safety; I'm making my first lager this weekend and would prefer that it not kill me.
What precautions should I take in cleaning my chiller? There are areas with excess solder, and no doubt some excess flux as well.
While I'm on the subject, I intend to use my old immersion chiller to run the wort through an ice bath, in attempt to get the wort close to lager temperatures. This means I'll be running wort through the same chiller through which I used to run dirty water. Should it suffice to run a significant amount of boiling water through this, or should I be more concerned?
I just finished making a large immersion cooler out of 50' of 5/8" OD copper. It involved four 90 degree elbows and required some soldering.
I used non-lead acid flux and solder. I'm still concerned about safety; I'm making my first lager this weekend and would prefer that it not kill me.
What precautions should I take in cleaning my chiller? There are areas with excess solder, and no doubt some excess flux as well.
While I'm on the subject, I intend to use my old immersion chiller to run the wort through an ice bath, in attempt to get the wort close to lager temperatures. This means I'll be running wort through the same chiller through which I used to run dirty water. Should it suffice to run a significant amount of boiling water through this, or should I be more concerned?