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Well gonna make this quick as not to waste y'all's time. Pretty new to this 10 years ago b4 hardware issues. Finally getting back into it. Switching to electric, and I found some videos on YouTube never seen before. hallelujah a pid. Tech is getting awesome. Bought one but before I used it I ran int...

i just realized something. this is the first time i took it out of the closet, and had a chance to see it. i drilled the hole for the airlock after my first ferment. so like you said jd it was prob just the temp change. oops

yeah i never used to be. now...

not a airlock but hose grommet from the lid down to a one gal jug. i think it would have sucked the water up first, it's a pretty tuff container.

thanks for the responses. felt better, but got the day off and got all day so was gonna just run it all off. but getting ready to rack it i noticed the sides of the fermenter got sucked in. what is this. it still smells good but what the heck.

yeah i didn't explain very well. i see that now. i have a 17 fermenter. last time i pulled 5 gal out one week and ran it. then the next week i ran the remaining 10, then restarted the ujssm with the backset from the second run.

ok well i am on 3rd generation now. kinda running out of time lately, this is the third week of this gen. gonna get it ran by the weekend but was wondering if it anyone breaks up there runs into different days. i did it last gen ( if course making sure the last run is big enough for backset ) do you...

well I'm definitely no expert, but from everything I've seen the only real important part is that it's lead free. and if course lead free flux, pref water based as it cleans up easier.

thanks butterman. I don't even think i was running my 1-1/2 right the whole time i was using it. didn't have a very hot burner. but who cares now. gonna start 15 gal of ujssm today, and try and run it in pot mode next time. i might end up making a pot still head. who knows

did a 7 gal run today. biggest so far. man that lava worked great. ( well in combo with the 2" column ) didn't work as good last run. just getting to know her i guess. today i had it cranked pretty good, going a good 5 drops a sec. and was still hitting 96.5. don't even really need it that stro...

Well my 2cents. Haven't done much research on ssp but that's the sizings i read. wanted to post something else though. I hit 96.5 last run, said 96.7 oops. but last time i must have set something up wrong or it's just cause i had 7 gal today as apposed to 2 last time. don't think so but this time I ...

duh t=thou. ha. that's what i thought cause the 045. obviously. but the t threw me off.what the heck. don't need a t, needs a decimal.

there you go, good idea. right now i just funnel them into a water bottle. kind of a pain as they don't really like coming out of the column when there packed well. only done one run so far, maybe i'll think of something that would be easier

meant to post this the other day. not sure about the diameter, but it's 302 grade i think that's good enough. and it's dirt cheap. found some 430 by the same seller, think it's less than half the price but i don't trust any 400 grade enough for this kind of project. this is probably what i will get ...

ok another issue. sorry guys. i didn't even know there were more than 1 grade of ptfe. there is virgin and mechanical grade i guess. the first site i used to check it out said that mechanical grade is not food grade. i know i'll probibly get different answers depending on where i go so i thought i w...

yeah I think I'll stick to pure ptfe. if i wouldn't use it I wouldn't want to sell it. might just by some ptfe sheet and make my own. sounds cost effective.

ha no kidding, except rubber doesn't smell as bad.

oh ok. that's kinda what i thought. but i remember some brew shop selling buna gaskets. and they were more expensive than the ptfe. just plain dumb. that's where i read it, just remembered. thanks guys

oh i thought it was a new fandagled plastic or something ha. but what about ptfe. I thought everyone trusted that.

oh sorry thought i did a good enough search.

wait oakback if your going to 3" are you going to change the flange to fit? or use an adapter. then you prob wouldn't have the lip no matter what. but you could use another idea i had. pretty much the same but just drill holes just big enough for the wire at the base of your column. then solder...

well i'm thinking of making some stainless valves and selling on ebay or something. i work at a machine shop and the design is very basic. the only problem is that ptfe o-rings are hard to find and expensive. i found some buna n 70 o-ring that are coated with teflon on ebay but it states that the te...

forgot to post. i ended up getting about the same amount as i got with my 1-1/2 boka. same ferment. weird never had it stop like that before.

well don't know if all kegs have it but my german style threaded keg has a little lip at the bottom. soldered a little x with left over 6 gage from my flange, cover with bit o scrubbies and viola.

yeah the idea was a scrap. when i first found out there was mercury there i didn't think much of it. i knew that it melts at like 30 some odd degrees or something so i figured the torch would get rid of any possible trace. that was also before i found out that vapor is the worst way to come in conta...

crashed pretty hard last night.yeah got pretty off topic, had a few drinks in me and i couldn't shut up. ha. yeah oliver90owner that's pretty much what i thought after little more research. saw somewhere something about the bulb absorbing the mercury, and then that the phosphor powder absorbs it. sc...

yeah once you get that bug.... man...i stopped for like a year. i"ll tell ya the bug hit me now as much as it did the first time. ...noting wrong with a pot still though, i'm a bourbon guy myself. i just want to get 95 outa one run. ha. I'll prob build a real pot still ( unlike my 3 qt crockpot...

oh oops had a few now. well with a pot still it means nothing really. but it's not bad reading for future builds.

well it's pretty old now. couple years. but i'm sure it still gets browsed. good idea. I don't trust brass. and like i said it regulates drops much better. well once i took the crappy rubber seals out of the brass valve. too cheap to go stainless for now. there actually not as bad as they were. stil...

ha no sh!%. and i actually just made all you mentioned this build. did the copper valve this time to, and i think i was able to tweak it just enough to not drip. i must have made it too short or something first go, dripped a lot, but is sure as hell had MUCH better adjustment than my "lead free...