connecting immersion chiller to garden hose

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connecting immersion chiller to garden hose

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:20 pm

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

Post by mr x » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:26 pm

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

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:49 pm

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

Post by AllanMar » Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:35 pm

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

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:32 pm

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

Post by GuingesRock » Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:36 pm

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

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:33 pm

Yup, used screw on clamps. I'll keep an eye on it.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose

Post by Keith » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:40 am

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. :cheers2:
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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sun Apr 20, 2014 1:19 pm

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

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Sun Apr 20, 2014 1:39 pm

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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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose

Post by Houblon34 » Thu Apr 24, 2014 2:27 pm

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

Post by RubberToe » Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:03 pm

Good job on the chiller, Liam.
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Re: connecting immersion chiller to garden hose

Post by CorneliusAlphonse » Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:34 pm

RubberToe wrote:Good job on the chiller, Liam.
Thanks rob! I was inspired by yours I think.
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!
That was my original plan but I got too frustrated by the soldering. Might happen sometime though.
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