Wort chiller - no sink hook up, other alternatives?

[beaksnbeer]

I use a 4.5 gallon per minute pond pump with sink filled with ice water at 32* takes about 8-10 minutes tap water not a good option as it's 73*most times. Start ice bath at the 15 minute left hop addition which allows ice and water to equal out...........my.02

 

[reezle]

I have the exact same problem with my kitchen sink, no way to connect to it.
Under the sink I installed a compression 3/8 Tee to split the cold water line. One side of the Tee went back to it's normal route. The other leg of the Tee goes to a 3' SS Braided Line (Dishwasher hookup kit, $15 for the line and some misc connectors.). At the end of that line I put an inline valve, then a 3/8 barb to connect to vinyl tubing. To chill my wort I reach under the sink, grab the length of coiled line off of it's hook, pull it up, hook it up, and turn the valve.

When the wort get to 90~100, I have a small aquarium pump ($30) that sits in one of the sinks filled with icewater and I just switch over to that.
It can't push nearly as much water through the chiller as tap pressure can, but it's helps get things really cold.

$5 3/8" Compression Tee
$15 3' 3/8" Braided line
$6 3/8" compression inline shutoff valve
$6 1' 3/8" Braided line (acting as a F-F adapter past the shutoff)
$6 3/8" compression to 3/8" threaded
$7 3/8 Barb Adapter
(Yeah, once I add things up, it's more $$$ than I thought it was.. But very convenient.)

$30 Submersible Aquarium pump (Get the biggest heaviest you can afford)

 

[emjay]

I did something similar, using only rigid copper pipe. They were all things a friend had as spare stuff lying around, but if you can sweat fittings, it can easily cost you less than $10. My setup only uses sweat fittings and goes like this:

Tee -> pipe -> ball valve -> pipe -> male garden hose adapter

Simple as that.

 

[watlings]

I plan on filling up one side of the sink with cold water and ice, putting the suction side in the cold water. Its my first time using a wort chiller, so I'm not sure how much water I'll need.

I just completed a brew yesterday... I used my submersible pond pump to pump (salted) ice water from a cooler, through my chiller, and into a 5 gallon bucket. I cooled 5.5 gals of wort to 70 degrees, and filled my 5 gallon bucket 2 and a half times... for what it's worth.

 

[SevenBirch]

I posted a tread that might be helpful...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/faucet-adaptor-garden-hose-356265/

 

[osito]

Would anyone have a step by step guide to installing a garden hose adapter to the cold water inlet under my sink? I'm kinda stupid at this plumbing stuff and can't figure it out myself :/