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just made an old keg into a fermenter. can't aford a conicel so i made this. just a few tuch ups to do but it pritty much don't done. gonna start another one in acouple weeks. i even put a swiveling racking arm in there. i can make 4 or even 5 of these things for the price of one conicel. can't wait to use it.

Nice....

Great job man. That looks very nice. good work on that racking arm. How'd you bend the tubing like that without kinking it?

I think that you could probably bend a tube like that over a v-belt pulley with some success - depending on the radius, of course. I'd like to know how he cut the top to the exact oval of a corny lid.


Mylo

I was guessing he bought the tube already with the bend, but that was a wild guess.

A tube bender?

Put a rope in the tube and then bend?

Fill it with sand first?

Heat it first with a torch?

Some combination of the above?

-Eric

If the tubing is the right kind ie ment to be bendable, a plumbers spring bender works well.

the racking arm came that way, www.austinhomebrew.com i can't find it on there now but...b3 has one. http://morebeer.com/view_product/16711/ ... tating_Arm
the one from austin homebrew supplies was almost have the price though. but now i know how its made i'm gonna make the next one. i got acouple different tubing benders.. it shouldn't be a problem.

the top wasn't to bad. i took a corny lid and put it on some paper and made an outline. then just made another line on the inside about.. umm.. i think it was about 3/8'' from the last line. then cut it out. made acouple small ajustments so the lid would fit real nice in the paper template, then put it on top of the keg and drew the ovel. and cut it out. it just took alittle grinding to make it fit perfectly. didn't take long. it took twice as long to get all the fucking sticker off of it. i used half a bottle of goo gone.

( RELEASE PRESSURE IN TANK CAREFULLY! this keg had been sitting at
least 2 years and i didn't think about it. .. the little bit of beer
that was left turned to vinegar. so me and my floor got covered
in malt vinegar.. )



tom

Very cool. Did you make the lid or buy it? Thanks.

On a side note, would there be any problem with fermenting say 6 gallons in one of these?