Yet Another Brew Stand Design Thread

[Prof. Pils]

Pro.Pils, just give us a call when your ready - thats one of ours.

Wes

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so much plumbing. AAhh I'll be back in a minute or about 4

 

[Prof. Pils]

Pro.Pils, just give us a call when your ready - thats one of ours.

Wes

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just keep trying lotto!

 

[homebrewworld.com]

Dude,

Dexion rocks..looks good painted too.

No stools in this brew house...nothing above chest height.


Looks good mate....!!!!
So, lets get crackin on a all-day, all night, fill up the Wine Barrell full of beer night !

Prost !
:beerbang:

 

[Prof. Pils]

Pro.Pils, just give us a call when your ready - thats one of ours.

Wes

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Just be there Wes with your balaclava ready when I say go.And we"ll go halves.
Cheers glenn

 

[Justin]

$38 sounds like a pretty fair price to me for the oxygen. I'm guessing that excludes the bottle rental? If not then why do they charge $100+ for bottle rental for CO2.

Some nice systems surfacing here guys, good work.

Cheers, Justin

 

[Prof. Pils]

Justin,I'm still waiting on the paperwork for the rental and those prices dont inc GST.I'm going to get my lpg, co2 & nitro mix in future from BOC.
One stop shopping!
Cheers Glenn..

 

[Prof. Pils]

Well I have'nt been idle today. Put my sparge arm together.She goes every which way but loose.I ordered 1 from B3 but I could"nt get it to do what I wanted.It's
gone to rest in my plumbing bits box. Interested in comments b4 I solder.
Cheers Glenn.

 

[warrenlw63]

Prof Pils.

Very interesting use for shower arms. :lol: Any reason it needs to be so long? :unsure:

Warren -

 

[Prof. Pils]

They"re just standard size shower arms Warren.It will allow me do any size mash from top to bottom. Unfortunately I wont be able to put the lid on the mash tun whilst in use.I think I'll be watching anyway! The 1 from B3 only had about 6" movement up & down. Lets hope it works. <_< I read somewhere that I need to use a special solder with no lead in it. Does anyone know ?
Cheers Glenn.

 

[warrenlw63]

Yep,

True story. Look for the Aquasafe Lead-Free brand. They usually have it at Bunnings.

Warren -

 

[Prof. Pils]

Thanks Warren,I'm there nearly everyday.
Cheers Glenn.

 

[Justin]

Yep, Warrens right. It's called Aquasafe 100, unfortunately it's only available by the roll and is about $23-26. I've never seen it available anywhere but Bunnings-even from plumbing shops, no one knows about it.

As far as I'm aware it is 95% Tin, 5% Antimony or Zn?? Or something like that anyway. 95/5

Cheers, Justin

 

[warrenlw63]

This is the one I use.

Brand is Kester Aquabond. Available from Bunnings. You can get just the solder for about $15 a roll IIRC. Either that or buy the kit with the recommended flux and brush for around $20.

Warren -

 

[Justin]

My roll is a fair bit bigger than that and of a different brand too. Anyway, one and the same.

Why is it that we get shafted on Bunnings prices here in Tassie too by the way. I noticed someone posted that bunnings had a 15m roll of 1/2" for about $50 that they said was in the latest catalogue/flyer. I was in Hobarts bunnings the other day and swung past the plumbing isle and noticed an 18m roll of 1/2" was over $100 bucks. WTF!

Pint of Lager quoted "Latest Bunnings flyer has a 15m coil of 12.7mm for $49. Don't buy it by the metre, I think I had to pay $6.50 a metre the other day from the plumbing suppliers, the scrap metal recyclers had none. "

Pisses me off, that's all. If it was $50 a roll here I'd grab some and make a herms tomorrow. At over $100 I wont. By the way other plumbing places aren't much cheaper.

 

[warrenlw63]

Justin.

Don't think it's prices that vary so much from Bunnings to Bunnings per se, it's more the stock they carry at the time.

When I went to my local Bunnings they had quite a fair bit of soldering equipment. The range was very confusing as with all things plumbing. I like you got no help from plumbing suppliers like Tradelink either. They suggested I use silver rods. :lol:

May just depend on what they have at the time. Pretty certain the stuff I got was about $15 a roll. There's a fair bit there too. I've already soldered up a few things and still got plenty to spare. Unfortunately lead-free solder just isn't that common. Given the fact it should be used on drinking water pipes you'd think it would be more readily available. :blink:

Warren -

 

[Justin]

Yeah, sorry I wasn't bitching about the aquasafe so much as the copper. We are getting shafted here, bottom line.

I agree though on the lead free sodler, given it's law in the US (as far as I'm aware) to use lead free solder on water pipes I thought it would be similar here. I asked at Tradelink and a range of other plumbing stores and no-one knew anything about lead free solder and infact told me it doesn't exist.

Of course lead solder on water pipes, nev nve neeev neever did me nun harmmm. :wacko: :unsure: :lol:

I just wish I could pick up some copper that cheap.

Cheers, Justin

 

[warrenlw63]

Oh bugger! Sorry about that Justin!

Thought that 1/2 inch solder was a little bit big. :lol: :lol:

Warren -

 

[warrenlw63]

BTW.

It's always very tempting when you see the Plumber's truck next door with rolls of the stuff just hanging there doing nothing eh? h34r:

Note: I've never done it so any Plumbers on the forum don't need to flame me with their very nice torches.

Warren -

 

[redbeard]

re copper tubing
strangely, i found the local mitre10 was much cheaper than bunnins. perhaps they dont sell a lot & it had an old price ;-)

 

[timmy]

What's wrong with silver solder from a fridge shop? You wont need more than a couple of sticks and its cheaper. No flux req'd for copper to copper.