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		<title>Don&#8217;t Buy Solenoid Valves For Your Brewery!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, last night was the inaugural brew on the new brew system and until the very last step it went wonderfully. Unfortunately, the last step turned it into a total disaster. I&#8217;ll do a full writeup once I stop weeping but the gist of it is that the hop and break crud from the boiler [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1569</link>
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		<title>Brewery Work: Lots!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, the weekend before it and tonight have been very productive on the brewery build front. It&#8217;s getting very close to done. At this point the only thing I really have outstanding is valve wiring and final plumbing hookups. All the kettles have all their bulkheads installed and tonight I finished installing the heating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1567</link>
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		<title>Brewery Work: Not Much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the long weekend and most of this week have been kind of a bust. I floundered around with getting the control panel painted and was never happy with the results. I finally decided to throw in the towel and get some professional help so now it&#8217;s in the queue at Seattle Powder Coating. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1563</link>
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		<title>Brewery Work: Front Panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little bit of (perceived) progress tonight but it took quite a while. I got the four main rectangular holes done on the front panel. There are two more than I have not decided if I am going to use so I am hesitating on cutting them. I was able to do the three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1558</link>
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		<title>Brewery Work: Front Panel and Bottom Panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got a lot of work done on the brewery tonight. I picked up some paint stripper from Lowes and set into the bottom panel with it to see if this ugly coating would come off. It came off nooooo problem. I&#8217;m intending to paint the whole control box gloss black. The paint stripper is nasty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1550</link>
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		<title>Brewery Work: A Few Holes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welp, I started today thinking I would be able to build the entire control panel for the brewery but what I ended up doing was cutting 6 holes. I realized I had no good way to cut the large diameter holes in steel for the receptacles until I remembered&#8230; hey, CNC mill! So I spent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1540</link>
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		<title>Brewery Work: Mostly Electrical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I did lots of work on the brewery. I built a 25 foot, 6 gauge extension cord that will carry 50 amps at 240 volts. That cord serves two purposes. One is so I have an extension cord for my welder, and the other is so I can plug in the brewery anywhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1535</link>
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		<title>HLT Work and Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Took an hour or so tonight and finished cutting all the holes in the HLT. I had to drill a liquid return hole near the top of the kettle and cut the big 1.25&#8243; heating element hole at the bottom. I put the liquid return at 2 inches from the bottom of the rolled to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1515</link>
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		<title>Minor Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a little progress last night on the brewery but there is some other news to share! First, progress: I picked up a tubing bender from Harbor Freight and it made quick work of bending the other 90 degree bend in my HERMS coil. I measured everything out and chopped off a few inches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1508</link>
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		<title>HERMS, RIMS, Wattage and BTUs &#8211; A Treatise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone on a forum asked me what size heating elements I intended to use in my brewery. My answer was simple &#8211; but then I decided to try to do some math&#8230; My batch size is going to be 10 gallons. I am planning on using a 4500 watt element for my HLT and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vonnieda.org/archives/1498</link>
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