Righto, done the last few extract brews in the new kettle, fitted with a pickup tube, working well.
Finally finished the mash tun tonight, braid in a circular esky, looks good.
Have had a 30 litre urn for around 4 or 5 months just waiting to go, first AG maybe this weekend even, yippeee.
Better fire up the urn make sure it's OK. In goes the water and in about 5 minutes there's a fair wack of it coming out of the base. DAMN, OK then whats the problem maybe the element base seal is a little loose. Nup worse than that, the element base has 4 things poking out of it, two prongs for the element, the thermostat and an earth lug. Looks like whoever soldered in that earth lug had ZERO idea, there's a hole through the solder join that I could drive my truck through :angry: Actually it's not that big about a pin wide but enough to see light shining through.
Advice to fix please. I've done plenty of electrical soldering but not plumbing. If I got some silver solder from Reece could I use my electrical soldering iron??? Any other solutions other than soldering. It's sitting pretty close to the element so I'd imagine it'll get pretty warm. I want to try and fix tomorrow to get that first AG through on the weekend.
Finally finished the mash tun tonight, braid in a circular esky, looks good.
Have had a 30 litre urn for around 4 or 5 months just waiting to go, first AG maybe this weekend even, yippeee.
Better fire up the urn make sure it's OK. In goes the water and in about 5 minutes there's a fair wack of it coming out of the base. DAMN, OK then whats the problem maybe the element base seal is a little loose. Nup worse than that, the element base has 4 things poking out of it, two prongs for the element, the thermostat and an earth lug. Looks like whoever soldered in that earth lug had ZERO idea, there's a hole through the solder join that I could drive my truck through :angry: Actually it's not that big about a pin wide but enough to see light shining through.
Advice to fix please. I've done plenty of electrical soldering but not plumbing. If I got some silver solder from Reece could I use my electrical soldering iron??? Any other solutions other than soldering. It's sitting pretty close to the element so I'd imagine it'll get pretty warm. I want to try and fix tomorrow to get that first AG through on the weekend.