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New Stainless Bench assembled, BBQ cover purchased to protect the investment...... now for some plumbing and a possible divorce as I am sure there needs to be more added. HERMS maybe, camlocks .......


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First half of my Herms Rig finished. Just need to plum it all together. Very happy with the finish so far.

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Started work on my HLT Today, Got the element installed, herms coil bent to the right shape, and 2 of the 3 weldless bulkheads installed. Just waiting on my compression fittings and barbs so show up and I can finish it off and get brewing.


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Jesus!! Are you gunna build a shed around it ?


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Got a diagram/drawing of the layout/plan?
It looks very interesting... but hard to work out what's what.
 
I have been setting up my grain mill, stand and hopper last weekend.

I have designed the hopper along the same lines as Chad from on here (thanks Chad)

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Idea is it goes together without screwing / glueing etc ..

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Then organise somewhere to mount the mill, motor and hopper

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Finally assembling the whole shebang ...

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Motor is from Motion Dynamics (Retailer on this site) ... Awesome bit of kit

All I need now is a power supply and I am off ...
 
chubbytaxman said:
I have been setting up my grain mill, stand and hopper last weekend.

I have designed the hopper along the same lines as Chad from on here (thanks Chad)

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Idea is it goes together without screwing / glueing etc ..

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10454306_10203784073295779_8651029876178793287_n.jpg

Then organise somewhere to mount the mill, motor and hopper

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10690257_10203836033834760_6306175398774330796_n.jpg

Finally assembling the whole shebang ...

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Motor is from Motion Dynamics (Retailer on this site) ... Awesome bit of kit

All I need now is a power supply and I am off ...
Niiiice. Where did the coupler come from?
 
mofox1 said:
Niiiice. Where did the coupler come from?
Hey mofox1

I got that "Lovejoy" from BSC here in Brisvegas - Northside.
For the poultry outlaid sum of $23.10 pick up from store.
12mm one end (fitting the aluminium rod from the motor) and 12.7mm the other end (mounting to the mill shaft).

Cheers

chubby
 
HLT is almost done, just need one more barb for the Heat exchanger outlet. Pump and valves mounted. Hopefully be able to do a few tests this weekend!

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Its been a while since my last post thought I.d show my brewrig. Tomorrow I will be brewing 60lts of "Cup Day IPA"

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Maiden brew on rig today. All electric 3v system. Cooler mash tun (about to be upgraded to 50l pot). First brew was a nice and simple SMaSH, split into two before boil. Built control panel based on Electric Brewery. 4500w elements running off a 20amp supply. Very happy with how system went for its first run.
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Massive thanks to Nev from Online Brewing Supplies for all the fittings and hose. Awesome customer service, great products and fast postage.
Also massive thanks to Chris from Eaton Laser for the tags. High quality product and awesome customer service.
Couldn't speak highly enough of the service from the above two..... I have no affiliation with either of them as I have finished my build...........
 
Hey Hugh, looks great! I really like how you've done your hoses, all colour coded and no need for hose changes when going from mash to sparge. sweet setup!

One question about your panel. You have an "element select" switch, but I see that both of your elements are on in the pic. How could that be?

Cheers
 
Thanks mb. Color coded hoses was more only for the initial set up when I was doing the hoses but I like them and think I will leave them as is, makes it nice and easy. Only a couple of hose changes for recirc through CFC with return ice water back to esky.
It looks from the pici that both elements are firing but I can assure that isnt the case. I can verify that both the breaker in the panel and also the breaker in the fuse box trips when required! If I fired both elements at once this would be the case. Panel was certified by a qualified sparky before use just in case.
 
mb-squared said:
Hey Hugh, looks great! I really like how you've done your hoses, all colour coded and no need for hose changes when going from mash to sparge. sweet setup!

One question about your panel. You have an "element select" switch, but I see that both of your elements are on in the pic. How could that be?

Cheers
I'd suspect HJ's element LEDs are wired in the pid output circuit, so while the pids are commanding the SSRs they're not necessarily powering the element. This is how mine are wired anyway.

Nice work on the panel BTW.
 

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