500 lt tank as a Processor

[Head Womble]

Nice! You're way ahead of me, I only just put the feet on mine let alone pump brackets. Yours is looking good - curious to hear your plans for insulating it!

Not sure,that will be the last thing i do,now its supposedly summer it shouldnt be urgent,i will probably go for foil bubble wrap as i like the neatness of it

Keith, we get thurmal bubble wrap come into work, loads and loads of it. it's not in hudge sheets but big enough.
I'll grab some for you and Tony if you wont, can bring to chugs if you can wait that long.

How tall is the finished unit ?

Looking really good BTW.

[Tony]

Oooh yes ridiculous amounts of bubble wrap would be good please Mark.

Mine now has 6mm feet on it and is much, much more stable.  Just need to figure out what I need for a big BES order to get all the fittings.

Looking at costing and how much pipe I'd need, it's actually cheaper to buy 7.6m of 1" tubing and cut and thread rather than 6x 1" BES barrel nipples, and that's not including the F-F couplings.

I'm curious as to how much all the 2" pipe on Keith's cost, but I suspect he doesn't really want to add it all up...

[Head Womble]

Tony I'll bring some home for you,
as space is going to be tight in my car for the BBB could you follow me home and pick it up from there.

Keith if you wont some I should be able to sweeze it in and bring it to the BBB.

[Tony]

Cheers Mark - what time were you thinking of heading back Sunday?

I've always gone before lunchtime before, to spend a bit of time with the family (since I've abandoned them for the rest of the weekend).

[Head Womble]

I was thinking of leaving about lunch time,
I don't wont to leave to early as Vince is getting the rocket fuel out on Saturday night.

[Tony]

I was thinking of leaving about lunch time,
I don't wont to leave to early as Vince is getting the rocket fuel out on Saturday night.

Fair point, should allow the alcohol time to filter through (I plan to sweat it out by sleeping in the car again, lol)

[Head Womble]

I'll be in my fishing bivi again this year.

I'm sure we can work it out so we leave together.

[Tony]

I'm sure we can work it out so we leave together.

That's how rumours start  But yes, definitely!

[K.H]

Mark some bubble wrap would be great,I can easily wait for the BBB.
The processor is about 6 ft,I can get you an exact measurement if you want?

The porthole ( the damn thing hasn't turned up yet)
The more I think about it the more I feel it would be better on the wash/settling tank,any views?
Pun intended!

[Julian]

Today children Keith's going to look through the .... ROUND window!

Unless you know the spec of the glass and any seals, I'd be inclined to stick it on the wash tank, as nice as it would be to have a sight port on the processor, I'd play it safe!

[Head Womble]

OK Keith I'll grab some for you as well.

About 6ft is close enough for me, it least I know it'll fit in my new shed (when I get it) if I can get another two of those thanks that is.

[Tony]

Well it's really up to you how tall you make it Mark, I put a lot of height on mine because I've got the height in my outbuilding - currently it stands 2.0m tall and will be 2.1m with pipework.  I figured I could put 25l drums under it if needed though really I doubt I'd need to.

Here's mine with its feet on - nice and stable now



There's no reason you couldn't have yours shorter and use the height of bio to force any settled glyc out if necessary.

[Head Womble]

I see yours is still reversable with legs on both ends 

[Tony]

It's bloody heavy, they act as handles to lift it up, I'll either leave 'em on or weld on some actual handles to move it about with

[Head Womble]

I'm thinking more and more about one of these as a reactor,
I think that putting one of jims cones on the bottom would not only increase the volume slightly but also improove the draining of the gly.
Also welding in a flat panel would let you put in three immersion heaters, two in parallel and one on it's own, that should bring it up to temp quicker.