Recent content by Gulf

This might just be your lucky day. Check your PMs bluejed. :)

Regarding "dodgy asian super booze", I have experienced this properly in Sapa (Northern Vietnam). I asked how it was made, particularly the part about the lack of enzymes in rice and was told they purchase enzyme (I'm assuming Amalase) from the markets. So, rice is boiled up, mashed with the...

Hi, What I have done on my urn is mark 5L increments on the sight gauge. The number of mm for 5L was calculated by rearranging: Volume = 5 Litres = pi * Radius^2 * Height Where I measured R as 1.675dm (167.5mm) for the 40L Crown urn. H turned out to be around 57mm. So grab your tape measure...

Keep it simple! How about using the same amazing technology used in headphone sockets on devices everywhere - the switched socket: http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=PS0160 http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=PP0154 So two each of those for your two speaker boxes. 1. Wire...

Well, if you have any more poorly sealed bottles, then you can expect them to be flat too. If you could be bothered you could re-prime them as you find them and put them away for another month (listen for the psssst when you open them!). The problem with the bottles is probably not the rubber...

What QSR said... basically (pun intended) you're slowly eating away at the aluminium and oxide layer. You would have been fine if you didn't leave it overnight. I think the chemistry is something like the following, but the hydroxide ions come from the deprotonation of water by the (sodium)...

For a cylinder: V = R2h Where V is volume, is Pi (3.142), R is the radius of your pot (internal diameter divide 2) and h is the height. So if you measure your kettle's internal diameter (and divide it by two to get its radius) and the depth of the liquid (height) you can determine the volume...

http://www.feldschloesschen.ch ...but I cheated and used http://www.tineye.com :) edit: damn, beaten by 1 min.

Songbird gets my vote: http://www.getsongbird.com/ Although I don't use it much myself, it's easy to use and has some nice features, like grabbing artist news/bios/pictures/lyrics off the web, alerting you when artists are touring, smart playlists, synch to shitePods etc... (I think it can rip...

I ordered a hopscreen recently, got told this and that I would need to wait 2+ weeks. That was fine with me. After all the months of dicking around I've done trying to fashion some cheap-ass solution (including burning myself trying to drain a blocked kettle), the cost and wait time now seems...

Agreed. I had to add a lot of bits to the kit to make it decent. Only reason I bought the Porter can was they were selling out for $5.

Hi, ekul - keep reading up here and you'll make some good beer! Usually home brewers will get a little bit from the dregs of a bottle, grow it up in some malt extract solution, then pitch it into our wort when the culture is most active. You could get a large amount of "mud" from the keg, stick...

I've got one and am perfectly happy with it. You'll need to put it together yourself so make sure you've got some teflon thread tape around the place. I'd suggest getting it with all the fittings. If you want to filter from fermenter to keg, just get a length of beer line, jam a couple of...

Firstly, you'll have a hard time getting the bines to grow down the wires in "option A", unless you want to be out twice a day training them. What other people are doing with a configuration like that is running multiple bines (only) up the strings. Second, you really want to consider the sun...

I don't have one (I'm going by the layout of a typical urn), but aren't they earthed through the (metal) threaded fitting of the element to the (metal) skin of the HLT, which is then earthed through an screw+nut+eyelet to the earth pin on the power plug? The only issue is if you were using a...