So.... I'm sitting around on the weekend, not brewing so I'm bored; and I decided to have a go at a little project I've been thinking about.
I'm a shithouse syphoner, and I've been lusting after the lovely stainless conicals that you see in the LHBS but I'm too cheap to buy one. So I thought I would try to make one out of off the shelf bits and pieces. And Bugger me, but it seems to have worked.
Here it is all together. I filled it up with water and it didn't leak a drop for about 5 hours. It holds 25litres filled almost to the brim.
Closeup of the 30cm funnel and 15mm ball valves
All pulled apart so it can be stored and sanitized properly. No real gaps etc for bugs to hide in (valves also come off) and each individual peice can be replaced if they get too scratched or worn.
Altogether about $48 bucks from the LHBS and hardware store. plus a few bits I already had lying around. But I bought the food grade buckets new at $10 a piece and I understand that they aren't really all that hard to scrounge up for nothing. So you could do it cheaper.
Now all I've got to do is try to brew beer in it.... mmmmmm beer
Gonna test it out on a heffe sometime in the next week or so. I figure if it will hold a Hefe, pretty much everything else will be OK
