Following on naturally from the BIAB / Lauter tun thread, I'm now ready to go with the next phase of the one-man systems wars
I'm a 50k round trip from Bunnings so I went to the local Thrifty link type store on the Island and hey - came up with a sweet little bit of gear. The Queen brand bucket is 20L as well but shorter and wider than the HandyPail of fame. Somewhat dearer as well, but fits beautifully into a Crownie with only about a cm all round and here it's sitting actually on a trivet as well.
couple of bodged drill holes, I did guide holes but the half inch bit snatched a couple of times and ripped some extra plastic. Funny I've not generally had any snatch problems in the past. B)
I've also put together the pulley system, I belayed it to the upper beam as MHB recommended and works a treat.
Stress test with a full cube
Test with the bucket / malt pipe with a 10k weight inside, I'd imagine the most it would be called on to do is 5 to 7 k, so all good. Lovely silky smooth and light action.
The whole exercise only took me about an hour to put together.
So now the system is saying "feed me some grain" so I'm off to do some milling. Will post progressively
I'm a 50k round trip from Bunnings so I went to the local Thrifty link type store on the Island and hey - came up with a sweet little bit of gear. The Queen brand bucket is 20L as well but shorter and wider than the HandyPail of fame. Somewhat dearer as well, but fits beautifully into a Crownie with only about a cm all round and here it's sitting actually on a trivet as well.
couple of bodged drill holes, I did guide holes but the half inch bit snatched a couple of times and ripped some extra plastic. Funny I've not generally had any snatch problems in the past. B)
I've also put together the pulley system, I belayed it to the upper beam as MHB recommended and works a treat.
Stress test with a full cube
Test with the bucket / malt pipe with a 10k weight inside, I'd imagine the most it would be called on to do is 5 to 7 k, so all good. Lovely silky smooth and light action.
The whole exercise only took me about an hour to put together.
So now the system is saying "feed me some grain" so I'm off to do some milling. Will post progressively