Chillers designed for this particular use have a beer lines passing thru submerged coils. Also they have a circulation pump and a line for moving the cooling liquid so one can connect it to the beer dispenser column so it look nice and deewy or wotever you call the condensation.
So you sticak a keg, co2 buttle and a chiller inside and you are set to be a “mobile” purveyour of cold beverage. It’s like a hot-dog cart but for liquids.
One summer I used my 8 foot deep pool to chill the condensers on a 50L roto using submersible pump and vinyl tubing for recirculation.
It worked like a charm and never warmed up. The pool was in the shade half the day in NorCal and had a heater that I just swithced off so it stayed cold.
I just did the same thing to make a preheat coil for my roto. Took a 20’ length of 3/8" stainless tubing we had around, bent it up, added hose barbs to the ends and tossed into the bath.
I tell myself I’ll get around to putting bulkheads on the bath and cleanup the installation, but I know that’s a lie.
Two 1/2" ID 50’ long copper brewer coils in the ground connected to a 1" manifold, with a 3/4" transfer line between the manifold and radiator.
Radiator is 2x 1/2" copper lines with fins around it.
Hole was backfilled with sand so i can easily get it out if needed.
(I updated the above post with some pics just incase the video link wasnt working)
One of the first things I did on this forum before I started talking a lot of s*** is I bought some stainless and one of the parts has the most beautiful weld but it’s not fully penetrated I’ll try and find it and show a picture all the China parts that I have seem to have the weld machine off at the end
The inside isn’t restricted by a smaller inner diameter. I got one more to install on my injection port on my tank.
Also gotta say having my collection separate from my column by having my column on a high pressure triclamp stand that indofabs made for me is the shit I do my runs with my column isolated from my collection and do my runs through a hose. Makes lifting the collection a breeze cause the column isn’t attached to the collection and no rack needed.
That’s why I posted the open sleeved open blast columns that have welded stands on them from emerald gold ( 3" x 24" Open Blast Extractor – Emerald Gold ) because I wanted everyone to know as long as it’s high enough off the ground you can just use a free standing column with your output flare for the hose at an angle rather than a rack.
You can literally just make a lid using a triclamp to ½" to make an injection port with a gauge, prv and a shutoff (top lid) and then you can get a triclamp to ½" and put a shutoff with an angled ½" npt to jic flare (bottom lid) and grab a cheap ½" jic hose from hfs. Bam no rack needed.
Also… tired of struggling to get full socks in and out of your column? Try using two socks loosely filled with your previous sock maximum spread between them and packed into the column. Less surface area to stick means it’s easier to push and pull the damn things.
48" shrink down to about 36" on average I’ve found, but that extra 12" or so of length left over on a half pack into a column makes a dandy handle.
Trying to get 60" which shrink down to just about 48" in and out of a column when they are maxed out is a nightmare, if not utterly impossible. That, and since you’re no longer packing the sock until it’s in the column and you’re not scraping the sides of the sock against the column you’re no longer throwing away what had to be 1-2% of final yields just to kief flying everywhere.
Mind you if your column is frozen and you’ve got solvent in the sock this isn’t an issue, but when you’ve been heating columns to reduce solvent loss it becomes almost a necessity.
not even on poker forums do people quit- but they ban my ass. thats a pro tip= if you cant stand the heat ban the fire out the kitchen life is comfy if you dont step too close to the fire. But fire dancing is better
Graywolf has taught me all I know about extraction. I learned to buy lustermax and use filters off here. But if graywolf is still on his game id suggest him figuring out the packing columns thing efficiently. We already owe him but he seems the guy to engineer and offer free access to the design