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Haha of course! If we adopted that approach, we'd never start home brewing :P I would only attempt for my own engineering-geek reasons. Refilling the CO2 tank is an inconvenience more than an excessive cost.

I've been toying with the idea of compressing and storing ferment CO2 in kegs, at 6 bar or so. While liquifaction and high pressure storage is out of the realm of a homebrewer, I feel low pressure gas storage could work, since serving and carbonation pressures are mostly less than 1 bar. So one...

Alternatives to JG are Festo or SMC. Pneumatic equipment suppliers

Niiiiice. So looking at week commencing 12/6 for pickup? The timing of my new brewery build couldn't be better :beerbang:

Strictly speaking, the probe shouldn't be going directly into your pot anyhow. Best practise would be to put a thermowell in, then put the probe in the thermowell. You should use one of those bulkhead fittings, then the tapered thread will be in the right application and happy:

There's nothing wrong. It's a BSP tapered thread, designed to seal with PTFE tape.

More results. So I took off a plastic disconnect and attached a barbed stainless one. I ran out of hose clamps so a press fit over the barb was holding it on. The stainless disconnect appeared to have solved the problem as there was no HP needle movement over 24 hours. However, after 36 hours...

I would be highly surprised if a home brewer EVER needed to replace seats on a ball valve. Then, the cost of the new seats is likely to be similar to a new valve anyhow. At work, we throw them in the bin instead of rebuilding them - it's so rare they need any attention.

Ball valves aren't sanitary so yeah, the idea is that 3-piece gives you a way to service the valve without having to disrupt the pipework. We really need some small butterfly valves to hit the homebrew market...

... but it won't. If the keg was just liquid, then yes it would work. But CO2 is less dense that the water, so all that will happen is either: You put the column of water entering the bottom of the keg (dip tube). All the CO2 floats to top of the keg. Unless you have the perfect amount of sugar...

Mmm, fair enough. It doesn't do much to encourage me to attend a comp though. I suppose understanding starts with listening. Being defensive doesn't get one anywhere. I don't have the answers, and I'm not for a moment suggesting we abandon styles and criteria. I'm more saying that it's very...

This reaction proves my point. I better get out my flamesuit, and put away my opinion. I do believe I acknowledged those concerns If the aim is to get more brewers attending competitions, then I suggest the community starts being open-minded. I would hate it to go down the snobby road of wine...

The only surprises were all grain over extract, and considering how often I seem to hear people bang on about sours there seems to be very little brewed. I can completely relate to the lack of entering home brew competitions. Personally, the things that have held me back are: Very rigid style...

I'll extend the offer of anyone else who might be in North Sydney/North Shore/Northern Beaches. The limit being the 700kg payload of my vehicle. We need more buyers! I wanna get brewing

Not particularly odd that the cooling switch is higher rated - a refrige compressor has far higher starting current than running, whereas resistive heaters are much the same. So a compressor with a 10A running current could easily draw 16 at startup.

Yeah my terminology is a little "flexible"... probably should say contactors cause that's what I mean rather than a "relay" as such. And indeed that thunk is very satisfying.

Conveniently, I have a ute and work in Wetherill Park but live in Brookvale. I'd be happy to pick yours up (already doing a couple others') and drop it on my merry way back.

My condolences for your loss. Please keep me in the loop - at this stage I'd probably be interested in parts rather than the whole thing. I'm in Sydney and can help with transport or something if it does end up being split across a few local people.

It helps knowing your background, as I can try and draw comparisons to something you find intuitive. A fairly good analogy of electricity is water flowing through pipes. The water is the electricity, and the pipes (and valves etc) are the wires and components in the circuit. The analogy...

I wouldn't worry about leaching - I don't filter much anymore but when I did, it was fine with hot water sanitising. It's polycarbonate, not PET or HDPE.