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Wort Cooler Project

Post by Brian The Brit » Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:37 pm

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So I got busy today and made a good start on my cooler , I still need to add some strengthening braces but It's almost done .

Total of 40 Ft 3/8 tube
The outer coil is 10 inch with the inner being 6 inch which stands 10 inch high ( Thats the size sona tubes I had , LOL )
Total cost $87 + 2 Hours time

I am Quit Happy with It so far , but I must admit If I were to do another I would alter It slightly , But you do learn by your mistakes , so they say .

What do you think ?

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Re: Cooler Project

Post by LiverDance » Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:48 pm

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"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: Cooler Project

Post by mr x » Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:02 pm

The elbows look too big. Or is it just me?
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Post by Keith » Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:32 pm

looks good. :cheers2:
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Re: Cooler Project

Post by Brian The Brit » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:05 pm

mr x wrote:The elbows look too big. Or is it just me?
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The Elbows are for refrigaration pipe I/D is 3/8 but the copper Is very heavy gauge , Cooper Elbows for 3/8 are hard to find and not kept in normal plumbing places , not that I could find anyway and I did not want to use olive type connectors .
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Re: Wort Cooler Project

Post by Hub Brewer » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:38 pm

Nice work. I had wondered about putting a soldered joint down low on my coil which puts it into the wort. Couldn't find anything that said not to so in the end I just did it. Metallurgists?
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Re: Wort Cooler Project

Post by Brian The Brit » Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:00 pm

Well , It seems to work Ok , Got a 5 Gl batch down to temp in 14 mins :)
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