Cooler Thermothingy for Dial Thermometer

[troy2000]

Midwest supplies has a 'Cooler Thermothingy for Dial Thermometer' fitting in their clearance section.

The Weld-B-Gone Thermothingy Bulkhead fitting allows you to add your dial thermometer to kettles. Works with a regular 1/8" to 3/16" stem like our dial thermometer. The use of this product requires a small hole to be drilled into your kettle. Thermometer not included.

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/weld-b-gone-thermothingy.html

Sounds like a good idea to me. I just bought an Igloo cooler to convert into a mash tun, and was considering the advisability of drilling a small hole through it to insert a dial thermometer; I figured a tight friction fit would probably be enough to keep it from leaking.

But this is a better solution, and I'm surprised to see the gadget apparently didn't sell well (or it wouldn't be on clearance...). Original price was $12.99, and I'd have willingly paid that. But I like the clearance price of $3.85 even better, especially since I added it to an order that was large enough to qualify for free shipping.

 

[day_trippr]

If I were to tell you that the nipple included with that bulkhead is nowhere near long enough to fit a thick cooler wall are you going to blow a microchip?

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

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[govner1]

Play nice- children! The description does specify use with a kettle!


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[Hoppity]

I think you meant this one: http://www.midwestsupplies.com/kewler-thermothingy.html
The one you linked was for HLT/BK. It might work if you mate it to the interior wall of the cooler by cutting a larger shallow hole in the exterior wall.
I just installed a dial thermometer in my Home Depot 10 Gal cooler using that process. The thread length was a little short for the task and it leaked several times until I got the right size washers and was just able to catch the thread with the nut.

I used to use the long throw probe from the top and replaced it with a shorter one

I like having a thermo through the wall, especially when I'm sparging/mashing out. I kept killing the Oneida digital remote meat probes by getting them wet. I haven't documented the different readings I get from the two locations, but I think I was mashing higher than I thought and sparging lower than I thought

 

[troy2000]

Play nice- children! The description does specify use with a kettle!


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True - and if I can't make it work on a cooler, I'll promptly post the info - giving specifics, instead of simply saying, 'what if I told you....":

But realistically speaking, how hard can it be to add a fitting or two and extend it through a thicker wall?

 

[troy2000]

I think you meant this one: http://www.midwestsupplies.com/kewler-thermothingy.html
The one you linked was for HLT/BK. It might work if you mate it to the interior wall of the cooler by cutting a larger shallow hole in the exterior wall.

Oops... looks like I mixed up the two products, somewhere down the line. My bad...

 

[troy2000]

I checked my order. Looks like I ordered the right thermothingie, then linked to the wrong one when I started this thread. Ah well... yesterday was my first day off in a while, and I was heavily into my homebrews. I guess I'm lucky I didn't accidentally order a whole Igloo mash tun or some such.

I'll probably order a thermothingie for my kettle too, next time I buy something from them.

 

[troy2000]

I came back in to delete a couple of my more obnoxious posts; I wasn't exactly covering myself with glory yesterday. But it looks like a moderator may have beaten me to them? Or maybe I deleted them already and forgot I had done so.