connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
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connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
Making my third attempt at soldering the immersion chiller today. Soldered joints seem to be holding. Need to connect it to pressure though, and the 1/2" pipe to male hose thread are actually 1/2" pipe to male pipe thread. I'm assuming this won't make a pressure tight seal if I screw a hose onto the MPT? What kind of adaptor do I need? (Don't really want to just hose clamp a cut hose onto the 1/2" pipe but I will if that's the solution)
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
No that won't work. Faucet to NPT are not compatible...you'll need a female pipe (I'm assuming 1/2") to a faucet of the proper gender.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
Roger. Figured, thanks. I will try to find something else tomorrow when stores are open
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
Princess auto has a good selection of brass npt to garden hose fittings usually.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
Bought an el cheapo 1/2" hose and worked it over the 1/2" pipe. The chiller holds pressure!! About time I finished this, haha. Thanks for the advice all!
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
You might need to tighten hose clamps every time you use it though, if you have them. I used to have a chiller from NG with PVC cooling lines and it leaked into the beer unless I did that every time. Got fed up with it.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
Yup, used screw on clamps. I'll keep an eye on it.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
I used some high temp silicone for the in and out with house fittings off that attached on both ends with hose clamps. Glad you got it finished. I still haven't given mine the pressure test, will do that next weekend before the inauguarl brew.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
I used compression fittings on mine and then had the option of hose barbs or garden hose adapters - no soldering.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
With hindsight, I would use compression fittings next time. This works pretty well now that it is pressure tight tho. 6$ hose kinked already though haha
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Fermenting: black ipa
Conditioning:
Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
My immersion chiller looks like this ^, except that at both the inlet and the outlet, I soldered another 90 degree elbow that points down + another 2 inches of 1/2" pipe. No more kinks in hoses and no dripping in the pot. Win-win!
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
Good job on the chiller, Liam.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose
Thanks rob! I was inspired by yours I think.RubberToe wrote:Good job on the chiller, Liam.
That was my original plan but I got too frustrated by the soldering. Might happen sometime though.Houblon34 wrote:My immersion chiller looks like this ^, except that at both the inlet and the outlet, I soldered another 90 degree elbow that points down + another 2 inches of 1/2" pipe. No more kinks in hoses and no dripping in the pot. Win-win!
planning: beer for my cousin's wedding
Fermenting: black ipa
Conditioning:
Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
Fermenting: black ipa
Conditioning:
Kegged: barrel barleywine from 2014 - i think i still have this somewhere
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