My 30p airlock

[bquiggerz]

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to show off the airlock I've made from junk around my house.

First off I had to gather my supplies,

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Here I have a toothpick container, a solder holder, and a pen.

The toothpick container broke as I tried to drill a hole.

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So I went in search of a new outer body which I found a very small Tupperware tub. It was flexible enough to drill a hole into it.

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Next I inserted the body of the pen and sealed it with super glue.

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Then I cut the solder holder tube down to size with a saw.

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And the finished product.

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Let me know what you all think [emoji2]

 

[Fil]

luv the ingenuity, 10/10..


with beer an airlock isnt really needed like with a wine which ferments longer and slower, but saying that the reassuring glug of the airlock reminding you the yeasts are busy at work for you is a reassuring sound in the background..

the wine airlocks used by many beer brewers (myself included) can be a bit small and get overwhelmed with a busy beer fermentation and quickly get blown dry so many use a simple blow off tube, (length of tube one end in the FV lid/bung, the other in a bottle 1/2 filled with water)..

Whats next on the build list? a lot of us, myself included get just as much fun from building and pottering with the brewkit as we have with the brewing and sampling of the results..

 

[bquiggerz]

Haha thanks I do try, its actually for my wine experiment.

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No idea what's on my build list, I generally build as I need, I don't have lots of money to throw at this so I have to make do.

 

[Spud]

I like that, simple repurposing of everyday items. It's got the whole scrap heap challenge meets homebrew thing going on there.

 

[bigbeefy]

great but i wouldnt of used super glue myself

 

[bquiggerz]

Thanks spud and i wouldn't have used it if I had anything else, its only to seal the pen to the body so it's not ever going to be in contact with the must/wine

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Like the big airlock :thumb:

I have found the WineBuddy Sav Blanc kits ferment so vigorously they empty my wilko handy airlocks within a day, i ended up making a blow off tube (as discussed by Fil above) out of an old airlock and some tube, your large airlock would have done the job well.

 

[bquiggerz]

Yeah just as an update the first bubble has just gone through the airlock, so IT WORKS! I'm quite happy and with have to hunt for more junk... I mean supplies to make one or two more

 

[bquiggerz]

Also I added a little blue tack on top of the lid to act as a seal, works well