Has anyone ever rigged up a DIY set of cooling coils for use with a glycol chiller? If so, what did you do? I had a couple of different ideas, but as someone decidedly lacking in skills or experience, I'd rather hear about what actually worked before initiating hack and slash operations. I couldn't find anything searching HBT or Reddit.
I have a few SS buckets with single 1.5" TC ferrules welded on the lids. One of these, the NB Sovereign is an 8.5G bucket that is decently tall. After having a friend weld the ferrule on, I don't think the coils for the Anvil setup are long enough for 5 gallon batches in it. The BrewBuilt CoolStix probably would be long enough, but they're $80 per, and I'd ideally like to be able to have two 5G batches controlled at the same time, so that'd be $160. Plus they'd have to be modded out to allow for an airlock or blowoff tube anyway, since the buckets only have the one port. So any options for DIY solutions would be appreciated.
Ideally, if I could rig up decent coils, I'd drill a couple holes in my existing TC endcaps with blowoff tubes and either just use grommets/compression fittings to keep them on the cap, or have them welded in.
I have a few SS buckets with single 1.5" TC ferrules welded on the lids. One of these, the NB Sovereign is an 8.5G bucket that is decently tall. After having a friend weld the ferrule on, I don't think the coils for the Anvil setup are long enough for 5 gallon batches in it. The BrewBuilt CoolStix probably would be long enough, but they're $80 per, and I'd ideally like to be able to have two 5G batches controlled at the same time, so that'd be $160. Plus they'd have to be modded out to allow for an airlock or blowoff tube anyway, since the buckets only have the one port. So any options for DIY solutions would be appreciated.
Ideally, if I could rig up decent coils, I'd drill a couple holes in my existing TC endcaps with blowoff tubes and either just use grommets/compression fittings to keep them on the cap, or have them welded in.