I am in the process of getting my all grain rig together and am trying to get some input before I buy anything I dont need.
I have a 10g orange rubbermaid cooler now that I made a ball valve and bulkhead from home depot fittings but I am not happy with how it turned out so I am going to order the 1/2" weldless valve kit from northern for both coolers, one for MT, one for HLT. I am going to be using RIMS to get the HLT to temp and to recirculate the MT during mash. So I am trying to figure out how to set up the wort return in the cooler. Do I need to order the XL cooler bulkhead from northern and get some kind of 1/2 SS elbow that I can put a 1/2 nipple and some silicone tubing down into the mash? I have seen some examples of this going through the rig picture thread but cant find any now for a example. I am not so worried about the HLT as its just heating water so I get just a bulkhead with a QD to recirc hot water.
I was going to go with 3/8" and already have a few fitting in that size but have read people have problems with it using pumps for priming and so on so I just want to go 1/2" from the start and not have to redo it in the future.
Thanks for your advise on the rig, I have put way to much thought into fittings lately and there is soo much on Mcmaster Carr website it hurts my head. haha
I have a 10g orange rubbermaid cooler now that I made a ball valve and bulkhead from home depot fittings but I am not happy with how it turned out so I am going to order the 1/2" weldless valve kit from northern for both coolers, one for MT, one for HLT. I am going to be using RIMS to get the HLT to temp and to recirculate the MT during mash. So I am trying to figure out how to set up the wort return in the cooler. Do I need to order the XL cooler bulkhead from northern and get some kind of 1/2 SS elbow that I can put a 1/2 nipple and some silicone tubing down into the mash? I have seen some examples of this going through the rig picture thread but cant find any now for a example. I am not so worried about the HLT as its just heating water so I get just a bulkhead with a QD to recirc hot water.
I was going to go with 3/8" and already have a few fitting in that size but have read people have problems with it using pumps for priming and so on so I just want to go 1/2" from the start and not have to redo it in the future.
Thanks for your advise on the rig, I have put way to much thought into fittings lately and there is soo much on Mcmaster Carr website it hurts my head. haha
