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søndag 21. september 2014

Making a submersible wort chiller

In the background you can see the
paint bucket I used to coil it around.
Bought a 15 meter long glowed copper pipe with diameter 3/8" (9.5 mm) and thickness 0.8 mm. It was already coiled up, so it was easy to gently force it into the right shape using a bucket of paint.  One of the ends was then pulled up through the middle.

Since 3/8" isn't really a standard size for pipes used for pluming in Norway. I used a 12 mm copper pipe and soldered it on. Then I could easily connect a 90 degree compression coupling, and then some normal fittings to connect the garden hose.

Just finished testing it for the first time.
Since glowed copper is really soft, I attached a copper string to the bottom ring of the coil, to be used when lifting it into the boiling pot.

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