Plastic pipe for sparge water

[Liam Callaghan]

I need to make a new sparge arm over my cooler tun and was wondering where people get the plastic pipe for it?

I'm going to use the same stuff to make a couple of carbouy cleanrers too I think and maybe a multiple bottle rinser

 

plastic sparge arm

[Liam Callaghan]

Also I need to look at making a more permanent agitator for my boil kettles.  I use an immersion chiller and a paddle on my drill which drops the temp real quick.  Be nice to have a paddle through the lid that just ran so I didn't have to hold the drill...  Any ideas?

[Grant R Baker]

Hi Liam

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I saw this article some months ago... looks technical and fidley.. (so right up your ally really :) )  Since I like batch sparging I never tried it.

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 How to Make a Rotating Fly Sparge

 

[Liam Callaghan]

I don't think I need any more fiddly things to work on haha

Actually it does look pretty good... 

Might have to build a new mash tun for it...

[Grant R Baker]

ahhh sorry about that.

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btw I saw a the Lower Hutt Storage Box shop now has the Rubbermaid 5gal coolers (round orange), which a lot of the yanks use for Homebrew mashing.

Not as nice or volumetric as a 50-100ltr stainless pot with electric immersion element and thermometer ... but the ole esky works fairly well and you see a fair amount of mashing addons for the Rubbermaid 5gal cooler on Oz and US sites.

[Brent Marquis]

Most people (myself included) use the 10Gal (40L) cooler.  The 5gallon would be too small.

10Gallon ones are available from ini.

http://www.inibrewsupply.com/rubbermaid-10-gallon-water-cooler/

[Grant R Baker]

Cool. When I built my new mashtun early last year I couldn't find these in NZ and importing them from OZ or US was expensive (mostly in shipping costs).

[Liam Callaghan]

Scored the pipe from Bunnings on the way home, nice quick push fit stuff at a really good price so when I re-jig the thing with the third boiler I can remake it in 10 minutes.  Quite impressed with the stuff actually,  better if they were half price but...

Sourced a sweet as submersible pump which will be great for cleaning carboys and kegs, bought enough fittings to do that too, thought I might as well get enough to make anything else that takes a fancy while I was there :)

[Druid]

Any info and/or pics of the Bunnings sparge arm? Quick, push fit sounds great...

[Liam Callaghan]

[Liam Callaghan]