Or you could just sand down the probe a bit.
does anyone see anything wrong with this? I have some ebay thermowells and the love temp probe wont fit but its so close that taking the black stuff off the probe should let it slide in.
No my friend... Sorry! I should have put this on my website years ago! Just file the black vinyl off and clean it up with a bit of light sanding to the shiny brass. It will fit any standard .250" dip tube thermowell then!
Hey Lonnie,
Could you put up a little detail on building your inline thermowell that BYO doesn't cover? It's about the only item I don't have a handle on.
Another Brutus in the planning stages.
You may need the super Tee!
It is nothing more than two 1/2 MPT garden hose adapters, a QD from Lowes and one of these short thermowells from Morebeer, except these now come with a heat guard. You can move it around and monitor everything from mash temps to chill to fermenter strike temp...
5" Shielded Coupler Thermowell | MoreBeer
Here is a little post I made a while back on that subject...
Also, I forgot to add that on most of the thermowells, the process of flaring will shrink the entrance of the thermowell (or dip tube) just a tad, so the brass probes of most thermocouples still will not fit sometimes... Just take a .250 phillips screw driver and shove it into the flared end of the thermowell and work the metal back to the proper dimension. It will work fine after that... I happened to have a nice .250 reamer, so I just cleaned up the entrance with that. It is just a very small area that is distorted at the flared end...
I second Missing links DIY thermowell. I just built 2 for my brutus for fun. I ran a test and it was dead on. No wierdness. My old thermowell was too long and extended through my TEE past the outlet.
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