dvw70
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95% finished (heading out for 95/5 brazing alloy) 12v work drive mash paddle for AG.
Total cost 50 bucks. Mostly wrapped up in nuts and washers lol.
This is for a 10 gallon pot but will be scaled for 30 gallon pot ( why the copper shaft is so long)
Total cost 50 bucks. Mostly wrapped up in nuts and washers lol.
This is for a 10 gallon pot but will be scaled for 30 gallon pot ( why the copper shaft is so long)
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Re: dvw70
Have you consider that copper may not be the best material for a paddle especially for AG.. the blades will bend..
Hopefully I am wrong, for you have put lots of time in the project..
Mars
Hopefully I am wrong, for you have put lots of time in the project..
Mars
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Re: dvw70
Hey, you use the same motor like me:
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =2&t=61817
12V will be too fast perhaps and the motor will get very hot. I would consider a ventilator, if you run it really at 12V.
I think the paddels are ok. You will see. I decided for a ss chain instead.
Edit: Strange topic name. Perhaps you can edit it?
And why in the novice section? Not in mashing?
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =2&t=61817
12V will be too fast perhaps and the motor will get very hot. I would consider a ventilator, if you run it really at 12V.
I think the paddels are ok. You will see. I decided for a ss chain instead.
Edit: Strange topic name. Perhaps you can edit it?
And why in the novice section? Not in mashing?
In this way, imperialism brings catastrophe as a mode of existence back from the periphery of capitalist development to its point of departure. - Rosa Luxemburg
dvw70
StillerBoy wrote:Have you consider that copper may not be the best material for a paddle especially for AG.. the blades will bend..
Hopefully I am wrong, for you have put lots of time in the project..
Mars
Yes agree I will be brazing a stiffner on the backside or the vanes, and have used slightly thinner mash, I was running 3.25lb/gallon, and have scaled back to 2.75 and i tried a 2 step mash in so it wouldn't get so unmanageable.
The motor gets hot, definately not meant for cont duty, but for 15 bucks....i will wrap it with 1/4" copper and cool it luckily water is cheap by me and I have a couple quick connects and braided lines for various operations,,
dvw70
I put,it in novice because I consider myself super novice, and don't want to stink up the big topics. I hate being reprimanded LOL...der wo wrote:Hey, you use the same motor like me:
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =2&t=61817
12V will be too fast perhaps and the motor will get very hot. I would consider a ventilator, if you run it really at 12V.
I think the paddels are ok. You will see. I decided for a ss chain instead.
Edit: Strange topic name. Perhaps you can edit it?
And why in the novice section? Not in mashing?
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Re: dvw70
That is looking good..!
As your pot ain't one of the biggest, I think it will work,
Great ingenuity with barbed hose connectors etc..
As your pot ain't one of the biggest, I think it will work,
Great ingenuity with barbed hose connectors etc..
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Re: dvw70
Then run it intermittentlyDVW70 wrote:The motor gets hot, definately not meant for cont duty, but for 15 bucks....
I figure stirring the hell out of it every couple minutes, is better than constantly stirring it slowly.
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Re: dvw70
For the conversion restes yes, for heating up and boiling no.shadylane wrote:Then run it intermittentlyDVW70 wrote:The motor gets hot, definately not meant for cont duty, but for 15 bucks....
I figure stirring the hell out of it every couple minutes, is better than constantly stirring it slowly.
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Re: dvw70
Completed and operating. I did reduce the angle and trimmed the diameter, and now use a two step mash in to keep 2.75lb/ gallon thin. I also installed a 1/4" steel round above my flame and a 1/4 off my pot to reduce the heat density. Loving it.
Thanks for all the advice,
Thanks for all the advice,
Re: dvw70
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Cooy paste for operation of said motorized paddle.
Cooy paste for operation of said motorized paddle.