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Re: what the heck is he making?
« Reply #40 on: December 05, 2014, 10:01:28 am »
that's pretty neat pk.  i have one of those small chest freezers, it functions, but is not in use. 

perry, sorry if i missed this somewhere, how big is your cabinet? 
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Re: what the heck is he making?
« Reply #41 on: December 06, 2014, 07:53:02 am »
Try a metal queen excluder for a platform to set the buckets on.

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Re: what the heck is he making?
« Reply #42 on: December 06, 2014, 10:08:09 am »
A queen excluder would work, but I had some raised expanded steel on hand. I just cut it and bent it into an "L" and set it in there. 

I've got a case of crystallized bottled honey in there now as a test.  We will see what it looks like in a couple of days.
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Re: what the heck is he making?
« Reply #43 on: December 06, 2014, 04:17:21 pm »
The nice part is that this whole system is scalable. If I find a bigger freezer or build a large cabinet I can just move the electronics over.
Exactly  :yes: It would be nice to find an old commercial double door freezer.
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Re: what the heck is he making?
« Reply #44 on: December 07, 2014, 08:37:23 am »
The nice part is that this whole system is scalable. If I find a bigger freezer or build a large cabinet I can just move the electronics over.
Exactly  :yes: It would be nice to find an old commercial double door freezer.

In a perfect world. :yes:

My cabinet is 6' wide, 2' deep, and 4' tall. My bottling tank holds 10 30lb pails so a cabinet that holds that would be better. I use the cabinet to keep supers warm before extracting as well, that's why it's so big.
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