{"id":37,"date":"2012-02-24T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopyours.wordpress.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-02-24T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:51:40","slug":"chiller-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Chiller build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than purchase a copper immersion chiller, I set out to build one. I figured I could build one to my specifications for about two-thirds of the cost of a pre-made one. I purchased a 50-foot spool of 1\/2&#8243;OD (3\/8&#8243; ID) copper refrigeration tubing from <a title=\"Lowe's\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lowes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lowe&#8217;s<\/a> for about $85. [Note: copper prices were near their peak and the price has since dropped].<br \/>\nUsing a 5-gallon corny keg (perfect size), I wrapped the coil tightly around keeping about a foot from each end uncoiled.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_155401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32\" alt=\"20120224_155401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_155401.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_160323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33\" alt=\"20120224_160323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_160323.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI then slipped the keg out and had a finished coil.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_160503.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34\" alt=\"20120224_160503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_160503.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNext I had to bend the ends to form the chiller input and output.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_163943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35\" alt=\"20120224_163943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_163943.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_172911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36\" alt=\"20120224_172911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20120224_172911.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFinished coil. All I had to do to complete this chiller was to add high temperature hosing and clamps. The total cost of my chiller was just under $110. If you can find a pre-made chiller made from 50&#8242; of 1\/2&#8243; copper for under $130, I&#8217;d like to see it. And it works like a champ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than purchase a copper immersion chiller, I set out to build one. I figured I could build one to my specifications for about two-thirds of the cost of a pre-made one. I purchased a 50-foot spool of 1\/2&#8243;OD (3\/8&#8243; ID) copper refrigeration tubing from Lowe&#8217;s for about $85. [Note: copper prices were near their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-chiller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopyours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}