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Tomorrow may not be a productive day at work... haha

Yeah im gonna have to keep checking out these deals

Dammit!This is definitely going to disrupt my productivity today....

Fishdisease wrote:Dammit!This is definitely going to disrupt my productivity today....

The Group Buy has already destroyed mine for the day... Nothing matters on Leap Day though.

Perlick for $29.95

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5000ml flasks at 19.95 are a steal. I'll take 3 if anybody jumps on it, assuming they still do USPS....

mr x wrote:5000ml flasks at 19.95 are a steal. I'll take 3 if anybody jumps on it, assuming they still do USPS....

their shipping page says USPS for most international orders.

mr x wrote:5000ml flasks at 19.95 are a steal. I'll take 3 if anybody jumps on it, assuming they still do USPS....

I would have if my computer hadn't just spazzed on my - fuck!

I haven't seen it yet, and won't have time. Just planning ahead. $65 shipping for 6. $50 for 4.

Is there one up now? I'm on the main page and all I see is the message that the deal is done

I'll assume we're between deals now....

hogie wrote:

Fishdisease wrote:Dammit!This is definitely going to disrupt my productivity today....

The Group Buy has already destroyed mine for the day... Nothing matters on Leap Day though.

That too..the boss just came in after hearing my type furiously and smiled and nodded. Little does he know I'm stuck on this forum..

that's it, i think they run until gone or 15 minutes between each

pffffttt...most of this stuff comes up as one per customer. Dead.

I'm building a few stir plates in the next month and they will be a heck of a lot cheaper than $50...

hogie wrote:I'm building a few stir plates in the next month and they will be a heck of a lot cheaper than $50...

Good to know...I was considering buying one.

Fishdisease wrote:

hogie wrote:I'm building a few stir plates in the next month and they will be a heck of a lot cheaper than $50...

Good to know...I was considering buying one.

Depending on how they turn out, I may offer another group build like with the temperature controllers... stand by. It will be a month before I have one that's ready to use.

If anyone wishes to try making their own stir plate and needs a fan, I've got plenty. Also lots of 12V supplies. All you would need to buy are some magnets and a cheap computer fan regulator off ebay. I have 3ish built now and it only cost about $5 all said and done...

Good rare earth magnets at Lee Valley and Princess Auto, or this guy:

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I ordered from DealExtreme. Even cheaper.

The one thing I have found is you must be careful how heavy the magnets are. Those ones you found on Ebay look to be too large I believe. Although, I do have some 48V, 6000RPM fans I can pass your way if you want to build a stir plate on steroids! Your yeast starter may take off like a helicopter though - I take no responsibility for that! The deal extreme magnets look closer to what I have used - although I found more than one magnet per side was necessary.

Jayme wrote:If anyone wishes to try making their own stir plate and needs a fan, I've got plenty. Also lots of 12V supplies. All you would need to buy are some magnets and a cheap computer fan regulator off ebay. I have 3ish built now and it only cost about $5 all said and done...

The Source sells rheostats/potentiometers for about $5 and if you happen to have any dead hard drives laying around there is at least one if not two rare earth magnets on the armature of the drive that are a bit of a bitch to get off, but it'll save a bit of cash.

Jayme wrote:The one thing I have found is you must be careful how heavy the magnets are. Those ones you found on Ebay look to be too large I believe. Although, I do have some 48V, 6000RPM fans I can pass your way if you want to build a stir plate on steroids! Your yeast starter may take off like a helicopter though - I take no responsibility for that! The deal extreme magnets look closer to what I have used - although I found more than one magnet per side was necessary.

It probably depends on how you are building them, and how big your flask is. I use the big ones to keep the stir-bar from being tossed, and that's in lab quality units. The OEM magnets won't cut it for my 5000ml flask.

mr x wrote:It probably depends on how you are building them, and how big your flask is. I use the big ones to keep the stir-bar from being tossed, and that's in lab quality units. The OEM magnets won't cut it for my 5000ml flask.

True - I'm only using a 2000ml and put about a 1/2" spacer between the fan and the magnets to a) get the magnets as close to the flask as possible, and b) to get the magnets off the fan so as not to slow it to a crawl. I did however recently burn out the fan in my first stir plate - it was just out of a computer case so not all that powerful (maybe 0.13A if I remember correctly). I'm going to change it out when I get chance to a higher power 12V fan out of a Tektrol power supply from work. Didn't have any issues with the stir bar jumping though - only the massive amount of yeast stalling my fan. The real reason it burned out is I got lazy and just hooked it up to a 24V bench supply. Gavin walked by and saw it wasn't moving so he cranked it up to 24V... nothing like coming home to the smell of burning insulation!

On a separate note, I can't believe that they've sold a few of those "brew-structures" that are up on the deal right now...wow. $2k is still far too much for me to spend on a brew setup.