Alaskan Camper Build Up
- Thread starter Carlyle
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Here's what I've been up to recently
I think I recall you're a field nurse or something of that nature? If so a medical O2 tank lasts a LONG time verse those disposables.
AeroNautiCal
Explorer
Looking at putting at pair of these on my roof rack next pointing forward for filler light on back roads in the evening:
http://blitzpro.com/hawk-15d-led-light-rail.html
Any thoughts? Recommendations for running through the roof of the truck with the wiring?
Perhaps a marine grade cable gland like the range made by Index Marine, here.
Right-o. I seem to recall folks saying those small disposables only seemed to last a dozen batches or so and with your connections figured the med tank would be a better route. I got a ~12" medical tank back in the day and its still quite full even after a few dozen batches. Haven't brewed much lately (other life distractions including the camper project) but I do have some batches of mead I made up the other day. I need to knock out a kitchen sink batch one of these days to use up older grain/hops and also build a new kegorator since my old one died and I scraped it out in the move.
You been brewing a while or just getting into it? I didn't notice mentions of it earlier in the thread (from memory anyways).
Carlyle
Explorer
I've been brewing twenty plus years now and finally moved off the cinder blocks and jerry rigged set up about 3 years ago. I bought a larger medical tank locally last year, but figured I might as well use up these small tanks beofre I hit it. I've got about twenty gallons on tap now and another twenty perc'ing away in secondary fermentation. My next beer project will be a glycol chiller/lagering system and then on to some pilsners.
No reason you can't build a keezer as all it takes is a chest freezer and time.
Carlyle
Explorer
Looks like a great idea!
Cool. Any reason you are doing a glycol system instead of just fermenting in a freezer? I used to do that in a smaller chest freezer and could fit two carboys in it diagonally.
Yeah my old one was a larger chest freezer that fit 10 cornies and I ran 5 taps. That died and I stripped the parts off for the move, I'm planning to convert over my smaller chest freezer that holds 4 cornies as the new kegorator, needed to downsize anyways. We needed to use it for actual freezer duty for a bit though but I now have an upright for the household stuff.
Yeah my old one was a larger chest freezer that fit 10 cornies and I ran 5 taps. That died and I stripped the parts off for the move, I'm planning to convert over my smaller chest freezer that holds 4 cornies as the new kegorator, needed to downsize anyways. We needed to use it for actual freezer duty for a bit though but I now have an upright for the household stuff.
Carlyle
Explorer
My thoughts on the glycol chiller and two fold. First use would be to use in conjunction with my heat exchanger to chill the wort below ground water temperature in the summer and then with a dual temp temperature controller to lager at other times.
Get your keezer project going, and avoid drinking that commercial swill. Perhaps we can do an exchange sometime.
Carlyle
Explorer
Does it ever end?
noJeepshere
Adventurer
Probably so huh?
dtruzinski
4 Season Traveller
I just ordered these for my rig. They are 4.25" wide which should held keep the rocks and mud down.
summit racing. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ppp-52-171
summit racing. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ppp-52-171