Check out this crack on my Pure Distilling rig

by **BackyardBrewer** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:40 pm

...noticed this today. That's a brass fitting with a huge T shaped crack. The other fitting has a smaller one developing.

For a unit that's not quite 12 months old I'm pretty dark.

Planning on going back to the brew shop I got it from on the weekend. Hoping some kind of warrantee is in place.

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by **MacStill** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:45 pm

Is that on the coolant lines? a brass compression fitting? it looks like it :think:

I think I got a couple 3/8 staino ones here you can have if you get no joy with the HBS.

EDIT: just realised it would be 1/4" :oops:

by **BackyardBrewer** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:55 pm

Yeah it's the water connections. I guess I can replace 'em but Bill from the HBS said he'd never had one come back with a fault.

I'd say cracking like that after a year is a fault! Lucky I have my reciept:-)

Admittedly I work this sucker pretty hard - average once every 10 days for a year.

by **MacStill** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:57 pm

I'd say it looks as though it's been over tightened, it looks like a stress fracture ;-)

by **crow** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:01 pm

how the , sheez is that on the inlet. Well so much for the nothing goes wrong with an ultra pure then. I see they are totally different fitting to the ones on mine

by **jasonc2861** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:04 am

They have a 5 year warranty by mem,got 1 of These units,,have to keep my eye on that as yer I run mine every 10 or so days since I got it 5 mnths ago.let us know how you get on mate,! :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **jasonc2861** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:07 am

jasonc2861 wrote:They have a 5 year warranty by mem,got 1 of These units,,have to keep my eye on that as yer I run mine every 10 or so days since I got it 5 mnths ago.let us know how you get on mate,! :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Have to say I always run a jet lighter on the end of the hose before I connect them so they go on fairly easy. :D get worried I might break it as I have thumbs for fingers and break sh$t all the time.
:oops:

by **Aussiedownunder01** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:22 am

To me it looks like stress fracture from over tighten

by **BackyardBrewer** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:33 am

Is only hand tightened, and that's only tightened to avoid leaks. The one that's cracked cant be used for input water, only output. It had a very slow drip from early on. No drama when using it as an output, but I'm surprised I could put enough force on it to crack it by hand...

by **Andy** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:43 pm

Thats you isnt it? you could crack it by hand tightening then

by **jasonc2861** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:49 pm

Andy wrote:
Thats you isnt it? you could crack it by hand tightening then

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: too funny!!