Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hi all,

I thought I'd share with you something I've been mucking around with, it's a nice solution to the expensive and bulky element guards out there and you can make them in a few minutes by yourself.

The first pic shows you all the bits you need, the cost is well under $20 for everything shown & you can get it all from a decent hardware/plumbing store.

List of bits.
16mm cable gland
32mm end cap
32mm piece of pipe
50x32 mm reducer
50mm end cap
SS 25mm BSP socket
1 x SS screw



Pretty easy to figure out how it goes together, just drill/cut,grind a 16mm hole in the 32mm cap & a 32mm (1" BSP) hole in the 50mm cap
Weld the SS socket to your keg & the element goes through the 50mm cap & screws into the socket.
Drill a 1/8 hole for the retaining screw

Put it together like this and you have a very sleek element guard you built yourself for under $20 :dance: :D :dance:



Enjoy!

Very nice Mcstill... you make everything look so easy :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Looks good Mac.

WineGlass wrote:Looks good Mac.

+1 to that, what a brilliant idea :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Good work... :handgestures-thumbupleft:

:text-goodpost: :obscene-drinkingcheers:

Here's a pic of the element fitted to the guard :D

I dont get where the 32mm piece of pipe goes

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A 32mm end cap doesn't fit onto a 50mm to 32 reducer, you use the 32mm pipe as an adapter, which you basically don't see. Buy the parts and you'll see :) if not ill take some pics of the one I bought off Mac

Like this? Does the pipe need to be soldered in, or is it a tight fit?

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vooharmy wrote:Like this? Does the pipe need to be soldered in?

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No!

just use a short piece of 32mm pipe, as in this pic in this thread ;-)

Ok sorry im thick =( I understand now! Is the gasket still in there?

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I used the gasket outside the housing and a little thread tape just to be sure :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Its a pretty tidy solution! Great work mcstill.

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Thanks for the idea for this McStill.

Whipped one up after work this arvo!

Admittedly not as shiny as yours, but its not the look I'm chasing. Besides, I needed to rivet it to hold it together. 50mm to 32mm was tight, the 50mm cap was tight, the 32mm was not, and neither was the inner piece. Meh, still looks the goods to me!

thats the shit mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Now that is cool.....

Still looking for electrician who will wire mine. Guess ill probably just start soldering wires and see how I go.

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Surely there's someone around lismore that can help voo out :think:

Moving in a week perhaps ill have better success on the gold coast.

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