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lol if i can work out how U tube works one day ya might get ya wish

Hi Spyked ,the brass needle valve is from a plumbing supply here in kiwi land and the brass nut is one i tickle up and turned a threaded part to fit it and to take the copper pipe .....ill post some more when i get back on the case ...take care ..kiwi_L

I am still playing with the brass rod flanges, even though they are a bit harder to work with. I turn the end of the copper tube over to make the mating surface. I am trying to grind a bevel into the brass to make it fit the clamp better as the 4mm rod plus the copper tube thickness is a bit too mu...

In the shed again studying mesh grades etc . ive tried to identify which is the biggest culprit in clogging up screens . As the corn maize gelatanises and the mash progresses it seams to me to produce a very, very fine GOOOP ,this starts sticking itself to screens like poos to a blanket in the pic o...

another pic that may be of interest the mash drained to the bottom of the screen for fermenting volume needed left over night sat with tap on to see how much the screen riser etc would drain ,the grain now fully collapsed slightly moist in hand as any grains are after mash has approx 3 liters of liq...

Bushman and LW ,thankyou for your kind words , i started over 2 years ago just fiddlin around when time permits... with corn straight off the cob (dried). Following Dunders and another 3 members great help .. i experimented with small batches in a kind of backward method teaching myself that certai...

thats about it for now i have some more ideas that i believe will make this work to a treat .find it wise to run it a few times more then do the rebuild ..least waiste ...enjoy..take care ..Kiwi_ L special thanks to Rubber Duck and Usage also ...who have been friendly and helpfull ..thankyou from th...

many experiments with visuals where done .always helps me in design ..seeing ..thinking before we hit any copper
and a special Thankyou To the Dunder for all his amazing knowledge and kind help over the last 2 years

more of the process...The corn maize sight glass builder

so after my trial run on the screen riser ,i spent today in the shed doing some keyhole surgery and screen cam :) experiments to see what this thing is really doing theres no doubt about it that maize or corn has a very fine powder that really can form a blocking barrier on any screen. the first par...

Ive been working away at an idea and thought id share this...in the hope it may help someone .. after many corn cooking experiments i made it a goal to beat that corn clogging false bottom mash tuns and based on a bet that the guy bailed on:) in this experiment i used flaked maize,it does behave a l...

OK, I remeasured the kegs and we are both right. PP measured from the inside of the lip which it would have to clear to if you were leaving it on and that is at 13-7/8" I measured from the bottom of the inside near the arrow you had at the ring. Hope this helps. Bushman and PP , backed off the...

Copper Porn Star ,now that is funny ,,thankyou for your kind words bushman re the work ,ill sort the keg thing out soon and come back to you

bok head plates in ,thermo port above sight glass ,condenser water ins and outs ,take off needle valve ready .....ill stare at this for a few days and out with the torch
p.s PTFE seals all the way

cheers Rad .hope alls good ,playing with the view of those plates right now ,im staring straight at the bottom plate and a clean shot of the top plate thru my glass ,will be interesting

prarie' and bushman thankyou for your efforts and time ,ill chew this over

slowly the bok grows ,its head in development stage ....plates to make then its solder time

also i have produced a 15" copper ball its 1/2 that has a lip on it to take the other 1/2 has an inside diameter of 385 mm .(as in the picture below on yellow bench) This with a tad of annealing and gentle swaging would fit over the top of our NZ kegs which are 396 mm in diameter Could someone ...

taken a tad of organising ,have all the bits ,from photoshop to copper and solder we go

like John Britten and the Americas cup and Burt Munroe ..its cause we are kiwis and we can ..have faith .cheers for all the constructive comments .great things come from this stuff .thats whats funny ...see you all soon... take care .

im not joining in on your Karma O.D or anyone else that wants a crack at me .i wish you all well and thankyou again

what were your first stills like O.D were they good ,were they perfect ???? ... research ,reasearch, reasearch thats what they tell us to do ..hence my months of silence .. somehow a comment from another member on my post... here comes another O/D disappeared ... is this why you constantly challange...

Have faith Blanik ...im not interested in doing anything you mentioned ..thats what study and common sence is for

Sure OD... im doing just that ,ive made a thousand mistakes on paper over the many months you mention ,Its sure cheaper than copper ...so from now on... you may just see that i can build what i can draw ..i always respect and appreciate your comments ...thankyou ...kiwi-L

Well ive decided to liberate my boiler concept which i have been working away at , the basic concept is that with the 18" round domes i have i can simply put two of these together and it makes a 50 litre boiler in a lovely roundy shape ..like my first pic posted in here if we add a sleeve to wh...

THAT sounds like a neato valve, LL ! Does it have identification on it? manufacturer and part number? I'd like to see what it is... Bestexon Sounds like a carburetor from a motorbike they got part numbers exon and wickedly easy control for automation you could pull the butterfly choke valve on whil...

Hi Blanik ..its a bit of a mess the ol town ,,to what i know from friends down there they have all had a guts full .thier nerves are shot even little kids ive seen lately are spooked to shit .... i dont think youll find they have all the mess cleaned up and bodies recovered ..several of my buisness ...

Now have pieced together a concept system to manufacture these boilers .i have the 18" _458 mm ap' 2 x .8 mm copper domes as the lid and base. from this we can make up variable boiler sizes eg .. 25 ltr,50 ltr,100 litre. Also tooling up to have flat bottom versions as well the rounded base for ...

kinda think thoses vapours will just slide on past that valve in any open state better than a ball cock or gate valve .and on full hearts take off speed .it might just be nice .it would be nice if automated... simple to accurately adjust , bouncin ideas around ..all good

Hi to all ,
Has anyone experimented with a butterfly valve concept in a (VM) vapour management head .. rather than the usual ball or gate valve sometimes mentioned .could this make a smoother path for vapour exits and have any other benifits that you could see ?