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Do you mean my existing one at the bottom where my dip tube and such is currently attached? If so, that gets me back to the original question in my post

No, I was thinking along the lines of attaching my dip tube hose to the liquid-out post on the Sanke converter adapter that is oriented 90º from vertical on a 2" TC tee attached to the top of the fermenter (as in your hop dropper assembly but I guess your dip tube hose is attached via your other...

For a sidewall mounted floating dip tube or one coming off a tee, is there any issue with the silicon tube crimping shut when it makes the angled turn downwards?

the issue with that setup is that I need a liquid out connected to the Sanke adapter that leads into the tank to my floating dip tube. So I can't easily remove it, reinstall it on the hop dropper assembly, etc. Of course, I could get around that by punching a new hole in my tank towards the top...

how freely do your hops move through the inner workings of the ball valve that is attached to your hop bong?

umm, I'll have to think if dealing with an extra pump and such would be worth it

I wonder if instead of a TC tee, one side for the Sanke adapter and the top for a hop dropper, where the 2" TC tee would presumably be too tall, I use a TC 3-way valve instead? I think this might be a much lower profile. Of course I can just pull the fermenter out of the fridge to attach the...

Very nice setup. I've actually been eying the Spike all-in-one spunding valve for a while. I also have a 6 gal. mega-mouth Torpedo keg (actually what I've been using as my brite tank) that I thought I might use for pressure fermenting at some point. But I guess that gets me back to the same...

I could do that but I just don't have the vertical space. I believe the sight glass from apache_brew is a hop bong, so it needs to be closed off from the fermenter most of the time.

Yes, the teflon gasket isn't sticky like the usual silicone ones so it lets the racking arm rotate. You do have to loosen the clamp a little but it's never in any danger of actually coming off. The Sanke ball lock conversion is here at Brewhardware...

Here is what my current setup looks like with the blowoff attachment (that pretty much takes up all my available height). Note I also installed a thermowell in the front. You can see the TC adapter with the gas-in post on the lower left that I swap in once the ferment starts to slow. Even with 2...

Umm, hadn't thought of punching new holes up there. Yesterday I found that Bobby had that Sanke conversion kit on his website (brewhardware.com) for about $10 cheaper than Williams so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on that. In retrospect just punching one hole towards the top for a...

These are all good points. I had reconciled myself to having to open the fermenter (at least just the 2" TC opening) to dump the hops in. I would be counting on the hops being good nucleation points for dissolved CO2 in the fermented wort that would result in a natural purge of the headspace. I...

I would like to include a proper hop bong, but I just don't have enough room vertically. I barely have enough for a ball lock disconnect on top. I think I might go with the setup Broken Crow referenced above from Williams and use a low profile duotight ball lock disconnect for the liquid out...

I thought those must exist but I hadn't come across them either from Bobby or NorCal. That might work better for me since my fermentation fridge has me a bit vertically confined