Today I acquired...........

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The stuff people chuck out

A new de-rusting tank just dragged from a skip. No damage to it and a very useful 26" x 17" x 11" - a perfect size for vices.

Terrible I know.
I had to liberate a TK Max plastic box.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Three motors and a starter all 3 phase.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few items liberated from a site today.
He who asks, gets.

Lots more there, but that's for another day.



3 sets of the 3 different size prickers.
1 French size cup washer.
Jet and NRV valve spanners.

Happy me.

 

[daedalusminos]

Another piece of Japanese engineering...

 

[Brad93]

Another piece of Japanese engineering...View attachment 277431

That’s nice!

 

[OJCar]

Rhubarb.
(Yesterday really)

This was not the largest root!
(Size eleven for scale

 

[bigegg]

Rhubarb.
(Yesterday really)

View attachment 277452
This was not the largest root!
(Size eleven for scale

I've been trying to get rid of the stuff out of my garden for two years: it grows like a weed here, leave a tiny piece of root in the ground, and it's 2ft high in a month.
(I am slap bang in the middle of "the rhubarb triangle")

 

[Arc Tourist]

A few items liberated from a site today.
He who asks, gets.

Lots more there, but that's for another day.

View attachment 277407

3 sets of the 3 different size prickers.
1 French size cup washer.
Jet and NRV valve spanners.

Happy me.

Primus stove tools ?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Primus stove tools ?

That and now torces.

 

[Maker]

Following on from the discussion in the ale pump thread, I got some gas.



I asked my friendly coffee roaster (And avid homebrewer) who he uses for gas, gave them a ring and got by far the best deal I'd found. £50 deposit on the cylinder, £16.20 for the gas, no rental, no environmental surcharge, delivered the next day for free. Can't believe I was debating BOC and Sodastream!

Is it normal for CO2 to have a male thread on the cylinder? I've only ever seen female threads on the bottle and a bullnose on the reg.

@hotponyshoes Was Air Liquide the supplier you were thinking of? Evidently that's where this is from.


EDIT: Got a question about regulators. Welding ones seem to start around the thirty pound mark and beer ones are more like eighty quid and up. Is there a difference? I know beer ones will vent gas from the keg if you turn the pressure up and then back down, I'm pretty sure my argon reg won't do that.

EDIT 2; another reg question; Why do they have two gauges? I thought CO2 was stored as a liquid so the bottle gauge will only vary with temperature until it's almost completely empty?

 

[Cobbler]

CO2 is male thread & a sealing washer.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Rhubarb.
(Yesterday really)

View attachment 277452
This was not the largest root!
(Size eleven for scale

Do you put manure on your rhubarb? I Prefer it with custard

 

[Maker]

I'm too excited.

 

[MattF]

Daren't ask what that's brewing/cooking.

 

[500e]

Last one of those I saw was a Coke syrup dispenser ended up as a diesel tank on our Albin Viggen we fitted a Robin engine with home built hydraulic out drive

 

[MattF]

Which type of coke?

 

[500e]

New someone would bight

 

[Maker]

Daren't ask what that's brewing/cooking.

I genuinely don't know what you're getting at. I'm making beer.

 

[MattF]

I genuinely don't know what you're getting at. I'm making beer.

Such a let down.

 

[brewdexta]

two new taps for my Cornie kegs

this is my existing tap, it is pretty simple, ideal for low carbonated ales,

it has a sparkler that allows low fizz but a nice tight head

But I had difficulty finding similar taps. Most seem to be geared to control froth on highly carbonated beer like this compensator tap, not my style. I hate burpy fizz,

So I took a punt on two of these taps second hand, which probably dispensed creamflow nitrogen/CO2 mix beers/

I hoped I could replace the nozzle with a sparkler. Here's the existing nozzle with plastic insert on the new tap

it looked like a standard sparkler thread

Yippee it is.

I'll test it first, if it does what I want I will find a couple of SS sparklers and install the taps.

Cheers
Andy