Damn Mike, looks awesome. Are you brewing this weekend on the new rig?
Damn. I gotta get a job as a pipe fitter and buy a kickA$$ tig welder so I can make 1 of these.
The workmanship is beautiful but I immediately wondered about the control panel blocking off being able to get to the mash tun for cleaning. Do you wheel the whole stand away from the wall when you use it?
Would love to get a Chugger on that rig...call me 800-810-1053...MIKE
Thanks Stevo,
Its been a long road. Being a Pipefitter/Welder and having welding to do at home is comparable to being a painter whose house needs to be painted. I do it all day at work and then have to do it when I get home. Some days I really lack the motivation. At least at home my welds are not being x-rayed.
Heres a tig weld I made at the local neighborhood nuclear power plant.
I am out of Local 230 in San Diego. Started apprenticeship in 1996 there.Nice cap, good to see another pipefitter/welder on the site, I too run the power house shuffle. I know what you mean by not wanting to weld at home its a real pain when you have to buy your own argon, don't realize how much you use till your paying for it. Makes you watch that purge gas flow a little better though. Are you a UA brother? Also nice work on the rig.
Thanks RazzVery nice build!
I'm out of 166 Ft. Wayne IN working in town in a fab shop and plan on milking it out as long as I can. Started in the program in 2001. And when at work the purge is a humming
RazzBarlow said:I have a question for you both, since you're professional welders (mikelikesit2000 and Welderbydaybrewerbynight).
Why is it that everyone seems to be using such large tubing for their brewstands? (You two included) Most of the stands seem to be overbuilt to me. 2 x 2 is an awful lot of steel! Hypothetically, if you were doing 15 gal batches and had HLT, Mash and Boil Kettle full, we're talking a total weight of less than 450 lbs including kettles.
I think I could park my car on top of some of these stands and roll it around the driveway.
/end threadjack
I have a question for you both, since you're professional welders (mikelikesit2000 and Welderbydaybrewerbynight).
Why is it that everyone seems to be using such large tubing for their brewstands? (You two included) Most of the stands seem to be overbuilt to me. 2 x 2 is an awful lot of steel! Hypothetically, if you were doing 15 gal batches and had HLT, Mash and Boil Kettle full, we're talking a total weight of less than 450 lbs including kettles.
I think I could park my car on top of some of these stands and roll it around the driveway.
/end threadjack
Interested in what kind of (electrical) controls you have. I may have missed it in the past couple pages.
Good that you are not having your welds X-rayed at home. And, at least OSHA is not showing up in your driveway!
Gorgeous looking sculpture. I'm green with envy, especially of all those nice pretty welds.
I am using ebay Chinese temp controllers. Right now they are only wired up for manual control, meaning I control when the pumps come on and when the burners come on.
I need to relocate the temp probes down to the drain ports to get a better "real time" temp as I recirculate before attempting to run the controllers in an "auto" mode.
I am actually enjoying brewing on my system right now, and learning the differences from what I was used to before. I have brewed 3 times in the last 4 weeks, and have now run out of room to store beer. This is a great problem to have. I, of course increased my consumption levels in order to combat this problem.
what probes are you using? I like the idea of using these rather than the others that are out there just because I am familiar with them from my fermentation chamber, and the price can't be beat. I may even get a spare just to keep on the shelf.
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