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"Plumbed tower cooling a bit differently for compactness and neatness. Using six 90 degree 1/2"" I.D. elbows from Lowes, I cut, then heated in (very) warm water the included thick wall 1/2"" hose material so it would fit the elbows. When cooled off, they are not coming back off. No clamps necessary on the barbed fittings, only at the non-barbed tower cooling tube stubs.
Much neater, works great."
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i started having a drip the other day and grabbed a tiny piece of rope and tied under it to direct the drip away just incase it happens to you a fast temp fix it worked great
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"Thanks for the clamp advice, but these compression hose clamps are unusually strong and the hose twice the wall thickness of what you get at Lowes. The clamp tension is considerable on this oversize Nalgene hose (not rubber hose).
Being that the cooling system is low pressure, I've not seen one leak and have tried with reasonable force to pull the hoses off the tower with no release. Maybe I am lucky.
The PVC ball valve is plumbed to control my tower cooling flow only. You want full flow cool water (before the valve) into the condenser unit to condense anything entering the condenser. Once in the condenser the vapor is no longer in the reflux cycle and needs to be condensed or is lost to atmosphere. Reflux only occurs in the tower.
At my altitude, tower temperature control is very easy at 77.3C and gives a perfect flow rate. Once the heads are off, the temperature stabilizes easily with the hot plate at a setting I have determined (not wide open) and a set coolant flow. Again, once the heads are off, with my heat and cooling set, it just runs until the tails (temp spikes up). Then I shutdown the heat.
This reflux still is very easy to control. Thanks for the hints. My ""distilled water"" has been as perfect as it gets. I've been very satisfied.
My next mod is to build a closed cooling system and better adaptation of the hotplate for stability.
Have a great week!"
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"i do gutter cleaning and use chain to direct drips if i cant patch them so it just came to me use like twine somthing not too thick or itll be hard to tie tight enough and i got enough to tye it then drape into the top of my keg you can kinda see it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...Q5Q7ZJn-WwffalBtZYc-O-g=(bad phone video and horrible light)"
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well i also lost my input hose so i had a piece of garden hose that was too big was wedged just right where i barely had any leakage tho but that made mine worse that was my first and so far only run the other day by the way dont ferment in boiler lol
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i just noticed i got a promotion now im advanced member
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im a smart dumb redneck punk rocker 3 things not usually fit together
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well yea i did 1 13 gal wash run so far im like 99.9% profesional now
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i did er back in the ol woodshed nailed a few pieces of plywood so as not to be seen but the neibor wouldnt care i shared him some the next day
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"Reading the write up on the 90 deg mod seems to make sense...but I don't see any picks that you describe...If someone has pics could the post them or a link?
Thanks"
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Hey bigwheel how is the grandson doing?
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Thanks for the info on the fittings...maybe if I find some...I'll post some picks.
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Thanks BigWheel but if I started whistling and such she would know I was drinking for sure!
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