As promised...
As it was after a couple of years outside just doing nothing.
After some elbow grease, vinegar run to clean it out. I scrubbed the inside of the liebig with a stainless sponge, quite som green copper oxide came out.
Cleaned everything really good, and a second vinegar run.
Decided to go electric. Much safer and a wider window of opportunity to run it. The burner I have is way overkill for this small 10L boiler, so I have to turn it down as far as it goes without the wind blowing the flames out. Annoying. Added a bottom valve aswell, easier to dump the backset.
Converted to electric, with a small control box. Decided to go for a cheap DIN rail box, normally used for fuses etc.
Added an ESP8266 from the partsbin, with some DS18B20s. Can go from here to anywhere with this setup, just the box getting too small.
Current state of affairs. Got some Ali stuff in last week, for me the most important was the condenser as the liebig, simple and effective as it is, tends to huff/puff (make your pick) towards the end of the runs when ABV drops below 30ish. % that is, not proof (long live the metric system)
Still to receive from Ali: 2" sight glass for the front, will put that somewhere above the aluminum heat shield and a couple of 2" end caps. Still have a few ferrules in the parts bin, will use one as a filler cap and the other -- or at least that's the plan -- for a diy agitator.
Again, thanks for the replies,
Regards,
Matt
A neighbour promised me an empty keg, so I'll get to build another boiler somewhere this year. No rush, time to brush up on my tig welding skills
