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So my false bottom & hop stopper from Jaybird arrived today, and my burners and regulator came last week.. I should be getting this stand together VERY shortly, can't wait!

Here's a few pics

Hop Stopper False Bottom Burners & Reg

Nice Haul there, looks like your ready to brew now. If you get a chance could you throw up more pics of the hop stopper? We're looking to build one and that one looks doable.

Thanks

LiverDance wrote:Nice Haul there, looks like your ready to brew now. If you get a chance could you throw up more pics of the hop stopper? We're looking to build one and that one looks doable.

Thanks

Will do. And if you guys want to check it out I can bring it out (are you brewing at all this weekend?)

Awesome. Just cut the top off my new MLT. That style of false bottom fits really nice.

Not brewing this weekend, heading to Cuba instead

LiverDance wrote:Not brewing this weekend, heading to Cuba instead

Sweet! I think I'd do that over brewing too

That's a real nice looking false bottom Jimmy, but really why not just do what I did and drill 1800 wholes in a SS plate? It only took me and a friend about 10 - 12 hrs, heck i may even sell it and just make another one, I'll take $250 for it

Good luck getting it all up and running soon

NASH wrote:That's a real nice looking false bottom Jimmy, but really why not just do what I did and drill 1800 wholes in a SS plate? It only took me and a friend about 10 - 12 hrs, heck i may even sell it and just make another one, I'll take $250 for it

Good luck getting it all up and running soon

<------ Me after drilling 1800 holes...actually that would probably be after 50 holes! haha

Jimmy wrote:

NASH wrote:That's a real nice looking false bottom Jimmy, but really why not just do what I did and drill 1800 wholes in a SS plate? It only took me and a friend about 10 - 12 hrs, heck i may even sell it and just make another one, I'll take $250 for it

Good luck getting it all up and running soon

<------ Me after drilling 1800 holes...actually that would probably be after 50 holes! haha

I hear ya! We spread it out over a couple weeks and 3 or 4 sessions! What can I say, you couldn't buy false bottoms back then

NASH wrote:That's a real nice looking false bottom Jimmy, but really why not just do what I did and drill 1800 wholes in a SS plate? It only took me and a friend about 10 - 12 hrs, heck i may even sell it and just make another one, I'll take $250 for it

Good luck getting it all up and running soon

My father would have spent two hours thinking about it, and five hours building a precision jig (out of the oddest scraps of wood), then would have probably still taken 5 hours with the jig Unfortunately, I haven't inherited his jig-making ability, so I end up spending 12 hours designing the jig, throwing it away, and 12 hours drilling the holes...

1800 holes over how large of an area?

How many drill bits did you burn through? I destroyed one cheap bit making the manifold for my mash tun. That was maybe 200 holes in copper, but I got lazy and didn't use any cooling lubricant. I was also questioning if its safe to use water soluble lubricant on something that will come in contact with the mash.

I just clamped the pipe up in an cheap PA XY vice mounted on my little drill press, turn the X axis one full revolution and pull the drill press down. Didn't take long and the holes are nice and evenly spaced.

LiverDance wrote:Nice Haul there, looks like your ready to brew now. If you get a chance could you throw up more pics of the hop stopper? We're looking to build one and that one looks doable.

Thanks

Here is one of the underside

Garak wrote:1800 holes over how large of an area?

How many drill bits did you burn through? I destroyed one cheap bit making the manifold for my mash tun. That was maybe 200 holes in copper, but I got lazy and didn't use any cooling lubricant. I was also questioning if its safe to use water soluble lubricant on something that will come in contact with the mash.

I just clamped the pipe up in an cheap PA XY vice mounted on my little drill press, turn the X axis one full revolution and pull the drill press down. Didn't take long and the holes are nice and evenly spaced.

I don't recall the exact dimensions and its been stored away for 15 yrs now. Lol. Its the diameter of a 50 L sankey keg minus a few mm. I used 6 titanium bits that I sharpened over and over on the bench grinder every 30 or so holes each, lol, no lube. Did the drilling on a large commercial type press. Yes, it was painful but I didnt have the resources to get a good false bottom any other way.


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