Interesting DIY conical

[gm-]

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Pretty cool, but would probably be rather frustrating build

[jtmwhyte]

Gotta say I'd be using a plastic carboy to test this one out

[Keith]

With my luck the air lock would come off the bottom lol.

[Jimmy]

With my luck the air lock would come off the bottom lol.

Yeah, that's what I'd be most worried about. I don't care how it's attached, I don't trust that..

[dexter]

im sure you could rig up some type of cage for it

[adams81]

sorry I don't get on here much. I bought a glass diamond bit (Amazon's the cheapest) cut one hole in the bottom of the carboy and one on the top. The trick is to keep the carboy from moving while you are drilling (otherwise you risk cracking or chipping the glass) so I secured it to the side of a tree with ratchet straps and drilled with light pressure. I bought the orange carboy cap from midwest I believe. The bung is slightly smaller than normal size because of the bit I used. The stand is just a bar stool cut in half. The spigots you can get at your local homebrew or hardware store. Also, I used food grade silicone to secure the spigot in the carboy but it has started leaking so I'm going to have to figure something else out. I have seen spigots with a rubber attachment that they use on rain barrels. I would imagine that would work since it hold 55 gal in but I have yet to try it.

Ratchet strapped a carboy to a tree??? No thank you!

[gm-]

With my luck the air lock would come off the bottom lol.

Yeah, that's what I'd be most worried about. I don't care how it's attached, I don't trust that..

Same here, looks very iffy. Maybe possible to rig up something more solid on a plastic carboy?

[AllanMar]

I'm not sure the carboy is enough of a conical shape for full effect. May be difficult to dump some stuff.

[mr x]

iirc, this design was done before with a better bottle.