JT’s Beer Equipment Page
Turbo CFC
After looking at lots of designs for a CFC I decided on the following design.
I wrapped some 10 gauge solid copper wire
around the 3/8” OD copper tube and soldered
it to the ends. I wrapped the copper wire once every
3 inches. I used 25 feet of tubing and 35 feet of wire
to complete the project.
This is the
end that I pulled through the vinyl tubing
with a string. Made the process very easy. I placed a
a mark on the tube every 3 inches with a marker to
keep on track with my winding.
This is the
completed inner tube with the copper wire
wrapped around the copper tube. This took 3 people
to do. We fastened one end to a picnic table and one
person held the tube tight and one wrapped the copper
and the other one kept it from getting tangled.
This is the
transition fittings.
That is my other brother John
He is putting together some equipment we built.
I however have knocked off for the day and had
a glass of wine… yea I like wine too…
All put
together. The green thingy is a fill n drain
from my fish tank… The yellow hose is the drain
for the cooling water. The cooled wort goes to the
carboy and the fill n drain puts a vacuum on the
carboy that makes it all flow.
Close up of
the setup. The wort goes from the CFC
to a coil of copper tubing in the bucket which is full
of ice then on to the carboy.
Close up of
the pickup tube for the boil pot yet to be
cleaned after welding the parts together. Yes I said
welding. I can TIG weld copper parts together…
Close up of
the throttle valve and the beer feet.
The first
test run. All went very well. It took about
12 minutes to empty 6 gallons of very clear beer.
Ok it is hot water and cleaner…
This is
about ½ way through the water test.
A word of warning is due here. The vacuum device
is not perfect. It will under some conditions suck
cooling water into your carboy. If the cooling water
is blocked or if you shut off the cooling water part
way through with wort still in your boil pot…
The first
wort to run through the system.
Everything went like a charm.
About ½ way
through the first run.
This is so easy now I can’t belive it.
This is my
pick up tube. I can’t belive how
easy it was to do the swirl thing and wait a
few minutes for the trub to go to the middle.
Gotta work
on my pickup tube I think I left
about 2 ounces of wort in there…
