Boiling Vessels

[Jase]

Hi There,

As you may or may not know, I'm in the process of collecting gear to go AG. I'm having a bit of trouble "sourcing suitable 50 litre s/s vessels" :blink: .

Was talking to a mate, who has offered me a 350 litre ali tank, brand new. I've looked at the tank, and noticed that it has two baffles inside, so I can cut the tank into three, to get 3 x 100 odd litre vessels. The diameter of the tank, however, is 26" wide. Pretty big. I think that this might be too big, but if I do double batches, maybe????? I can even get a 26" lid for them.

Before I said 'no, thanks", I thought that I'd put a post on here, and see what you guys think. All opinions would be welcome.

Cheers,
Jase

 

[Jazzafish]

For all the time and effort, get yourself a keg and cut the top off it. Then get a 20 mil hole saw and drill a hole in the side to put in a tap.

Kegs are easy to find and fit perfectly onto most wok burners. From the pics I have seen, they also fit on nasa burners. Gas is has my vote over electric boilers.

 

[T.D.]

Or if you are happy with aluminium (which it would seem you are) you can get a 50L ali stock pot for a hlt and a 70L one for your boiler. It will probably be a more managable setup than a modified tank (but obviously its a bit hard to say without seeing pics etc). Aluminium is easy to work with too.

If I was setting up an AG system from scratch now I would probably construct it around 50L (hlt) and 70L (kettle) s/s stock pots. Allquip have pretty reasonably priced pots. Stick a Gatorade-style cooler between the two and you've got yourself a pretty sweet system.

So many options though. You can't post some pics of your ali tank can you? 26" diameter for a kettle does sound pretty wide! But there's no obvious reason I can see why it wouldn't work...

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