My B3 1200 Clone

Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:49 pm

I've been busy this weekend. I've been wanting to build a sculpture and thought about gravity, but I hate ladders so I decided on a horizontal system. This took two days to build. The material is superstrut from HD. It's expensive stuff but I like the fact that I can move things around when I want to without getting a welder involved. A chop saw really cuts this stuff well. Thats a well used Hurricane burner from NB for the boil kettle.

I will be adding at least one pump, and will probably get another kettle from Sabco with a false botton for my MT.

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bubbabrewer
 
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Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:24 pm

That's really nice. I was in Costco the other day and saw a steel unit with heavy duty wire shelving, each shelf holds 2000 lbs. It cost $145.

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With the wire I think you could fasten burners wherever you wanted underneath, leaving a continuous smooth surface for the pots to sit on. And, since it's a grid, it would be easy to run tubing, etc.

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It looks like the infinitely adjustable shelving would give the option for gravity or horizontal brewing methods, along with plenty of storage space.
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Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:56 pm

Very nice bubba. I'll have to check out the Costco shelving Pus...been looking for some speed racking or similar structure.
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Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:00 pm

Sweet! One of my friends and I welded up my Brutus frame today. No pix at the moment but I'll post some when it is done.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:02 pm

Yea, it's looking good. Nice job.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:57 pm

pus rocket wrote:I was in Costco the other day and saw a steel unit with heavy duty wire shelving, each shelf holds 2000 lbs. It cost $145.


Hmmmm. Interesting. Let me know how the wire shelves hold up to the heat of a full burn.

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Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:04 pm

Yeah, I'm going to do things to remove heat from the frame. I was going to use tile to insulate the pot from the frame or some other material. I haven't decided yet.
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Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:54 am

macgruffus wrote:
Hmmmm. Interesting. Let me know how the wire shelves hold up to the heat of a full burn.

David


I was wondering about that as well. One of the reasons I haven't done many AG is that the our sculpture is so tall, and it's very difficult for me to lift the heavy ass keg up there. I would be interested to see how this works out.
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