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Recently purchased a 350L plastic tub for primary fermentation.
Spigots with a sieve attachment are available to install on these. Has anyone used these? Do they leak? Could be great if it works, but I'm reluctant to drill a hole in the tub. Your comments are appreciated. Thanks, RD |
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I have 4 primary tanks that started as polyethylene (food grade) tanks. I
cut holes in the bottom of each and fitted them with bulkheads and nolyon strainers inside. Outside I attaced a ball valve for draining. Works great! > wrote in message oups.com... > Recently purchased a 350L plastic tub for primary fermentation. > Spigots with a sieve attachment are available to install on these. Has > anyone used these? Do they leak? Could be great if it works, but I'm > reluctant to drill a hole in the tub. Your comments are appreciated. > Thanks, > RD > |
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Interesting, Aaron. How did you seal the opening where the ball valve
attaches to the plastic? rubber gaskets? Thanks for suggestion. RD |
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Interesting, Aaron. How did you seal the opening where the ball valve
attaches to the plastic? rubber gaskets? Thanks for suggestion. RD |
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All of the rubber gaskets are make of FDA materials. I had to purchase a
special gasket (square-ring) for the bulkhead fitting (bulkhead is threaded on inside and outside). The ball valve is connected to the bulkhead via a short nipple threaded on each end. If you're interested, I can try to put together a list of the parts and sources. My project this year is to add temperature control. My problem isn't too much heat, it's not enough. I have my fermentors in the basement and temps don't get much over 70 or so, definitely too cool for the kind of reds I want to make. I purchased a 4-loop temp controller on Ebay and put together a power switching box. I am going to use the sheet-type heaters on the outside of the tanks covered with insulation. Battling pneumonia for the last few weeks so I haven't made much progress. Once I mend up we'll see how it goes! CHEERS! Aaron > wrote in message oups.com... > Interesting, Aaron. How did you seal the opening where the ball valve > attaches to the plastic? rubber gaskets? Thanks for suggestion. > RD > |
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All of the rubber gaskets are make of FDA materials. I had to purchase a
special gasket (square-ring) for the bulkhead fitting (bulkhead is threaded on inside and outside). The ball valve is connected to the bulkhead via a short nipple threaded on each end. If you're interested, I can try to put together a list of the parts and sources. My project this year is to add temperature control. My problem isn't too much heat, it's not enough. I have my fermentors in the basement and temps don't get much over 70 or so, definitely too cool for the kind of reds I want to make. I purchased a 4-loop temp controller on Ebay and put together a power switching box. I am going to use the sheet-type heaters on the outside of the tanks covered with insulation. Battling pneumonia for the last few weeks so I haven't made much progress. Once I mend up we'll see how it goes! CHEERS! Aaron > wrote in message oups.com... > Interesting, Aaron. How did you seal the opening where the ball valve > attaches to the plastic? rubber gaskets? Thanks for suggestion. > RD > |
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