Check Out These Pumps

[Tony]

I was looking on ebay and i do know about the EBay items post but i wanted some peoples opinions about these pumps.

They look very much like a march pump although i dought they are magnet driven.

I am using a davey hot water circulating pump that is nowhere near food grade and it works great so long as i take precautions and keep it clean inside.

Has anyone seen these around?

cheers

 

[mika]

Link might be good Tony

 

[Tony]

Oh bugger poop damn crap

here is a linky

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/AUTOMATIC-PRESSURE-...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[mika]

Haven't seen one of them before. Guess it's going to be as good as the Davey though.

 

[Tony]

well the davey is cast iron and rusts if i dont open it up and dry it out.

this one looks brass

might get one and see how it goes.

If it doesnt work i will hook it up to my Hot water system as i have crap water pressure

win win

cheers

 

[MHB]

Tony
I think this will have the same problems as you are getting now, it isnt a food grade pump.

MHB

 

[razz]

Going by the ebay description the body and impeller are copper, so maybe the only problem could be some cleaner/sanitisers won't like copper ?

<_<

 

[jgriffin]

I looked at these a while ago (or something very similar) and contacted the mfgr to see what they thought about pumping hot wort. Their response was "don't".

 

[T.D.]

I recently bought a March pump from Process Pumps for $233 delivered. I know its a bit more $$$ than the one here, but its a tried and tested pump for home brewing purposes. I'd bite the bullet and spring for one of those if I was you.

:beer:

 

[timmy]

I bought my March Pump off britni at Burt process when she was on here. $170AUD delivered to my door.

Process pumps didn't like it but the price was right.

 

[delboy]

NOT A MAG DRIVE PUMP HAS S/S SHAFT THROUGH BEARING WITH NEO SEALS .

not realy suitable for beer/wort but ideal for building a glycol system.


if you use a spd controler??

DELBOY

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

You can buy a stainless davey hot water pump, but is more $$$$

 

[Tony]

yeah a ss davey would be great.

The davey actually circulates the wort through the motors bearings to lubricate them while its running.

I empty the mash ton while the boil is happening and put 10 liters of iodophur solution in there and recurculate it through the pump to steralise it before i pump the cooled wort to the firmenter.

have done this dozens of times so far and no infections.

I was after a second pump cause i ran into problems with the pump being needed in 2 places on my 100 liter brew days.

I thought one of these would be pefrect to pump from the HLT. Its just hot water after all or i could keep it clean to pump the cooled wort to firmenter.

cheers

 

[Tony]

I looked at these a while ago (or something very similar) and contacted the mfgr to see what they thought about pumping hot wort. Their response was "don't".

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I contacted davey about their hot water circulating pumps and they said that they only recomended they pump clean water. NO PARTICALS!!!

mate these things pump rice hulls, grain chunks, hop pellets and thick break no worries.

The only thing that stopped it was hop flowers. they blocked the impella and it stopped!!!

Thats why i built the hop flower basket and now use a bag to hold the hop pellets.

cheers

 

[Darren]

Tony,
You need food grade pumps. 100 litre brewday isn't worth dumping!

cheers
Darren

Edit: Its not what it will pump but what it harbours between brews