agillies one thing you must learn quickly when you enter the domain of DIY brewing projects is that if something looks good, is free, and you not sure if you could use it is............... GRAB IT and put it in your all-sorts & odd-bods collection. It might sit there a while until one day without warning you'll be illuminated with a Cosmic vision of a wonderful brewing project it would suit perfectly.
Last year I was at the Armadale Recycle Tip and low & behold there in front of me was a brand new Coleman 20lt circular drink cooler, I grabbed it quickly for $2 as it was minus a lid, this was obviously why it had been dumped. This didn't bother me as I knew I could still use as a mini mash tun it if I made my own lid, so into the shed it went. I forgot about for about 6 months then one weekend while tidying my shed up the cooler appeared before me & I thought 'Hmmm I'll have to see about getting a lid for that". I kid you not a week later I was coming home from work chatting away on the hands free halfway between the townships of Boddington and Dwellingup when something at the side of the road caught my eye and registered in my tiny little brain. I pulled up and threw a U-turn to have a closer look. I was gob smacked there lying at the side of the road slap in middle of about 40 km of national park was the exact lid I needed, what are the fuc*ing odds of that!!! The lid was dusty but didn't even have a mark on it. Things like this happen too me all the time, I'm sure it must too others as well, maybe we should start a thread like "Spooky
Homebrew Craftbrewing Adventures".
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It's still sitting here unused at the moment, BUT ONE DAY! :lol:
Edit: Just read your post above after I posted this you should have tried for a six-pack