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Had a few problems with flow rates recently and wondered what flow rates people are using ? Thanks S

This all got complicated after I started looking at my bottle filling technique from a batch priming bucket. :) Little bottler investigation Got me thinking about one of the above for filling from a cornie. Am in the process of putting together a CP filler at the moment. Now I can see why you...

This should be easy, but I'm having trouble finding a supplier, who has the usual stuff not 15 and 22mm, sells in singles and not tens, or doesn't charge £11.95 delivery :x Any suggestions, fed up with trawling the net. :) S

I quite fancy one to these to help out with bottling, people seem to like them. :D Trouble is I don't want to spend £8 with half of it getting me a plastic tap that I don't use. :) So anyone got a picture of the business end of the bottler, presumable they come to pieces for cleaning ;) S

Had a bit of trouble to date with pt100s going belly up, i.e. open circuit, between the red and blue or black should be 100ohms. :cry: There has been mention that the problem was due to liquid ingress, so I decided to protect the probes in a thermowell to prevent this, I am not convinced that...

Went out to the Brewery this morning and fired up the kit to do a 90 litre brew............. all was perfect last brew, but PID showed that another PT100 had gone **** up, with no spare in stock, how many have I replaced. :evil: So went back to the old method, chucked it all in, after a...

Had a bit of hassle with my Totton last brew, started to sound very noisey. :evil: It has not done much work to my mind but these things happen. :) So I stripped it today to find that the drive magnet had gone cow mouthed and was shackling about on the shaft. :cry: I rang the man at Totton...

I went down to Screwfix today and spent an hour opening an account :D . . . . . Then I found out, it was not a dating agency. :? :x . Think I will stick with Toolstation. ;) S

Had a spot of trouble with one of my corny's. :evil: Gassed up a pair and later noticed one had lost pressure, thinking it was a leak I re gased it. A few days later did the same thing, but noticed it was not full and put it down to a lot of foam at filling time. Went into the brewery on a...

Anyone know anything about Kelvinator kit. The local second hand shop has a big two door job one above the other access to joint internal space, which appears to be fridge, for sixty notes, looks good to me for various purposes ;) . :? S

The importance of a constant correct fermentation temperature has always but well up my priority list and I have built two temperature controlled cupboards. One pid controlled, to use it cos I bought the wrong one and one on a room stat. It is nice to see the actual temperature inside. I am...

Did a brew today and learned quite a lot, the most important thing was to make sure I put the filter in the boiler outlet, didn't notice until the pump blocked a second after starting pumping to the cooler, when I noticed the filter on the window ledge. :oops: :evil: Anyway, the real plot. I...

Went up to Murphy's at Nottingham yesterday to pick up a bag of malt (good price at £22.50) and a couple of poly pins, hops etc, etc. and was pleased to receive this, Chrismas offer as I had spent over £35. Not hard to do with such a range of goods at the right price :D S

Not been brewing much since the fruit fly got my last 75 litre batch, back in July but have been busy building a counterflow cooler which might be of interest to others. There has not been much construction on the forum recently so this might get some action going. ;) My Immersion cooler was...

:( As mentioned its been a sad day :( :( Did a brew week last Monday using my new fermenter, usually use three 25 litre buckets, but first time out for my new fermenter vessel which holds 100 litres. Brew was a Hobgonlin Clone, 80 litres, temp was warmish at time and pitched yeast at...

Latest project is converting a 100 litre stainless vessel into a fermenter. I have had a couple of 22 mm tubes welded into the bottom, with a view to putting stainless compression fittings and taps on them, as yeast and wort outlets. I was planning on using a stainless 22 mm compression elbow...

Don't know where I am going wrong here, but having trouble getting PMs to move from my outbox to sent :? I am assuming that submit should make the message go :) Have sent messages in the past but seem to have lost the knack, must be old age ;) So what am I missing. S

Its time that I had a go at getting my build "finished" or at least a bit more tidy than it is at present. ;) So has anyone tried These or can suggest an alternative. Thanks S

Did a bit of bottle washing and filling yesterday, over 90, whilst I was working away decided the process needs to be improved, as much as possible :) 1. I batch primed , which I don't normally do, for the sake of extra cleaning time this has got to be better that messing around with spoons of...

Just noticed the top five topics on the forum were herms / pumps, so I thought I'd make it six :lol: Noticed a nice pic with copper pipework, it was yours A, ;) I am not a stainless fiend as you may remember, so what is the best CIP regime for a system containing copper :? Thinking of...