Henno
Beermologist
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When I got my nasa and brewstand I put up a pic of it all proud as punch and some nerdy safety wanker said he didn't like the look of the orange hose that close to the burner. HA! I said. It stood up to about 20 or 30 AG brews and then one day getting close to the boil my wife and I heard a strange popping sound from the nasa. We got down on our haunches and were bloody shocked to see flame shooting out of the side of the orange hose. Mr nerdy safety wanker was right it just took a lot of brews before it happened. So as I didn't want to lose 46 litres of beer it had to be a running repair. I reversed the hose and used amalgam tape covered by gaffa tape on the burn hole which was now at the regulator end. Weird thing here is the next brew day I hadn't found a permanent solution and the other end melted after 5 minutes! More tape and we got that one finished, still not a good situation.
The other day in Bundy I wanted to get a copper pipe swaged and bent up. Popped into a Ken's plumbing, a big plumbing supply joint up here and asked if they could make one up. No was the answer but we have a guys number that may make one up for you. I ring this guy's number and tell him what I need and that it's for brewing from grain and he says Ken's plumbing should be able to help you, I say I'm outside Ken's plumbing and they say they can't, he says 'Bullshit, I'll be there in 3 minutes.' He was there in 2 minutes. Get's out of his car all smiles and says 'You must be Andrew the award winning brewer from Bundaberg!'
I tell him I'm not but that I'm friends with aforementioned Andrew and it turns out he was at Eagle Heights brewery last weekend and told the head brewer he was a Bundaberg boy was told Andrew's beer would be on tap there soon. Anyway I digress, I show him my burnt hose and into Ken's we go. 'You guys are f#ckin hopeless' he says to the staff and walks behind the counter and disappears into the rows of plumbing stuff. Here's what he came back with:
He plonks this down on the counter along with some loctite style glue which was going to be $18 and when I ask him why I can't use thread tape he tells me because you don't know how to use it and it might leak and I had nothing to do with helping you make this etc. I told him I didn't want the expensive glue and may have to take this thing apart for maintenance or whatever so he takes the time to show me the correct way to use thread tape. I reckon this guy is bloody tops just quietly. Wouldn't take a dollar from me for his time and left the shop to go to his next job. Legend. So if anybody ever needs any gas fitting done in the Bundy area PM me and I'll tell you his business name and number.
Here's a close up of one end of the pipe:
I'd prefer a copper pipe all the way to the gas bottle but this is Bundy we are talking about and I was in a hurry and in town for one day only. I know Lilo had a hose burn through on him recently so maybe you could use this method if you don't have it solved yet.
Cheers
Henno
The other day in Bundy I wanted to get a copper pipe swaged and bent up. Popped into a Ken's plumbing, a big plumbing supply joint up here and asked if they could make one up. No was the answer but we have a guys number that may make one up for you. I ring this guy's number and tell him what I need and that it's for brewing from grain and he says Ken's plumbing should be able to help you, I say I'm outside Ken's plumbing and they say they can't, he says 'Bullshit, I'll be there in 3 minutes.' He was there in 2 minutes. Get's out of his car all smiles and says 'You must be Andrew the award winning brewer from Bundaberg!'
I tell him I'm not but that I'm friends with aforementioned Andrew and it turns out he was at Eagle Heights brewery last weekend and told the head brewer he was a Bundaberg boy was told Andrew's beer would be on tap there soon. Anyway I digress, I show him my burnt hose and into Ken's we go. 'You guys are f#ckin hopeless' he says to the staff and walks behind the counter and disappears into the rows of plumbing stuff. Here's what he came back with:
He plonks this down on the counter along with some loctite style glue which was going to be $18 and when I ask him why I can't use thread tape he tells me because you don't know how to use it and it might leak and I had nothing to do with helping you make this etc. I told him I didn't want the expensive glue and may have to take this thing apart for maintenance or whatever so he takes the time to show me the correct way to use thread tape. I reckon this guy is bloody tops just quietly. Wouldn't take a dollar from me for his time and left the shop to go to his next job. Legend. So if anybody ever needs any gas fitting done in the Bundy area PM me and I'll tell you his business name and number.
Here's a close up of one end of the pipe:
I'd prefer a copper pipe all the way to the gas bottle but this is Bundy we are talking about and I was in a hurry and in town for one day only. I know Lilo had a hose burn through on him recently so maybe you could use this method if you don't have it solved yet.
Cheers
Henno
