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Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:18 am

Damn it, I'm lazy.

The other day as I'm watching the sight glass on my HLT fill, waiting to run and turn the hose off, I remembered I had a spare, brand new dishwasher solenoid valve lying around doing nothing to earn its keep.

So I slapped the valve on the output of my water filter and stuck a float switch in the HLT. Voila, push-button fillage.

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Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:30 am

Nice work, Push. You are the envy of all lazy homebrewers, like myself. Featured on www.wortomatic.com, I suppose?

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Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:20 pm

MyloFiore wrote:Nice work, Push. You are the envy of all lazy homebrewers, like myself. Featured on www.wortomatic.com, I suppose?

LOL - Not yet. I'm doing the Binford 6100 v 1.5 - when it's done I'll post an update.

Nothing too radical, auto filling HLT & auto sparge. :D
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Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:18 pm

pretty bad ass, i'm just trying to figure out why you had spare dishwasher parts laying around?
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polski wrote:pretty bad ass, i'm just trying to figure out why you had spare dishwasher parts laying around?

LOL - good question. When you do radical Halloween pneumatics you have all kinds of solenoids, pistons and triggers lying around.

Just ask Sunken Bier.

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Thu May 01, 2008 3:14 am

Here's how I imagine Push's brew day:

    8:00 am Push the button to fill the HLT and heat the mash water
    8:05 am Have breakfast with the family
    9:00 am Pour grains into mash tun and push button to transfer water from HLT to mash tun and refill HLT and heat water.
    9:05 am grab the paper and head for the bathroom
    10:15 am make sure mash is finished and wort has been pumped into kettle
    10:20 am build fire in BBQ pit
    11:00 am grill some steaks
    11:45 am first hop addition
    12:30 pm second hop addition
    12:35 pm clean up lunch dishes
    12:45 pm Make sure pumps are chilling the wort with the Mr Malty whirlpool wort chiller
    1:00 pm Put kids down for nap
    1:30 pm pitch yeast
    2:00 - 4:00 pm clean up
    5:00 pm work on next year's Christmas lights
    6:00 pm Dinner with the family
    8:00 pm Story time with the kids
    9:00 pm Double fisted drinking til midnight


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I don't take the paper.

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Fri May 02, 2008 4:29 am

Dirk McLargeHuge wrote:9:05 am grab the paper and head for the bathroom
10:15


who takes a shit for ah hour and five minutes?
dont know about all of you but I like to be efficient with my dukes.
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