Crown concealed element users

[stewy]

I'd be worried that a stainless steel scourer would leave scratch marks. I only ever use a green scouring pad (with a sponge on the other side).

. Do you have it on the end of a piece of wood or something? How does the sponge handle boiling temp?

 

[ianh]

. Do you have it on the end of a piece of wood or something? How does the sponge handle boiling temp?

No it has a hexagonal base similar to the one in Bribie G's Using a 40L electric urn thread but the hexagonal part is coated with plastic or something, so it does not scratch and withstands the heat.

 

[Markbeer]

I never scrubbed mine leading up to the boil because I was out washing the bag etc so that may explain my problems.

Still I rather like the more powerful elements and get to a boil quicker and just leave it alone. I hated having to check it to see if it had cut out or not.

 

[Rocker1986]

I use a stainless steel wire brush on the end of a long handle to scrub the element cover prior to bringing it to the boil. It works really well. Obviously I still get crap build up on it, and occasionally during a 90 minute boil it might cut out a bit towards the end which another quick scrub fixes. After the urn is emptied, a combination of an initial scrub with a plastic brush with some hot water, then boiling a bit of water and citric acid gets rid of it (this also removes that brown scaly **** with the aid of some steel wool). Thing comes up like new every time and no rust issues either.

 

[stewy]

I use a stainless steel wire brush on the end of a long handle to scrub the element cover prior to bringing it to the boil. It works really well. Obviously I still get crap build up on it, and occasionally during a 90 minute boil it might cut out a bit towards the end which another quick scrub fixes. After the urn is emptied, a combination of an initial scrub with a plastic brush with some hot water, then boiling a bit of water and citric acid gets rid of it (this also removes that brown scaly **** with the aid of some steel wool). Thing comes up like new every time and no rust issues either.

Might be a dumb question but did the steel brush come with a long handle or did you attach to a handle? If so, how did you attach it?
Cheers

 

[Rocker1986]

It didn't come with a long handle, so one had to be attached, but I'll grab a pic of it tomorrow which will help me explain it better; it is basically the handle held into a small piece of timber by a screw through the back/front, then this small piece of timber screwed into the existing brush handle.

 

[Rocker1986]

Sorry I forgot to grab a pic yesterday but got one now. The small piece of wood has a hole in it that the handle goes into affixed by that middle screw, then the whole thing is screwed to the cut off brush handle, and that's it.

 

[stewy]

Thanks mate. That's perfect & similar to the picture I had in my head!

 

[Rocker1986]

No worries mate. I did varnish the wooden parts as well just so they don't soak up wort and whatever.