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Ball Valve 1 2 Barb Hose Ends Home Depot
You can buy a acknowledgment tun from a home-brewing supplier for hundreds of dollars, depending aloft how adorned you appetite to get. Or, you can body a home-brew acknowledgment tun agnate to the one pictured application a 10-gallon acknowledgment acknowledgment and some genitalia calmly begin in the accouterments area of your bounded accouterments store.
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Materials
• One 10-gallon annular acknowledgment cooler
• 12 to 18 inches of 1/2-inch stainless-steel accumulation hose
• One 1/2-inch threaded brawl valve (brass or stainless steel)
• One 1/2-inch MIP x 1-1/2-inch aqueduct nipple (brass or stainless steel)
• Three 3/4-inch stainless-steel cut washers
• One 1/2-inch changeable NPT x 1/2-inch corrupt barb
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• One 1/2-inch macho NPT x 1/2-inch corrupt barb
• Two 1/2-inch stainless-steel bastard clamps
• One 1/2-inch assumption arch plug
• Two 1/2-inch silicone O-rings
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• Teflon tape
Instructions
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1. Remove the acknowledgment bung by removing the artificial nut on the central of the acknowledgment wall.
2. Remove the silicone gasket from the amplitude amid the close and alien bank of the cooler.
3. Wrap a attenuate band of Teflon band about both ends of the 1-1/2-inch aqueduct nipple, again fit it through the now-empty aperture in the cooler.
4. Cut the ends off the stainless-steel complect application a hacksaw or Dremel tool, and abandon them.
5. Application a brace of needle-nose pliers, durably anchor the close elastic tubing of the accumulation corrupt and advance the complect off it. You should be larboard with the stainless-steel complect by itself.
6. Insert the threaded end of the 1/2-inch arch bung into one end of the stainless braid, and defended with a bastard clamp. The arch bung will ensure that your complect does not float in your acknowledgment baptize and charcoal at the basal of the cooler.
7. Fit the added end of the stainless complect over the affront end of the 1/2-inch changeable corrupt affront and defended with addition bastard clamp.
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8. Fit one silicone O-ring and two of the stainless-steel washers on the central of the cooler, and cilia the corrupt affront assimilate the central nipple. The O-ring should be abutting to the bank of the cooler.
9. On the alfresco of the cooler, fit a silicone O-ring and your actual stainless-steel washer, again cilia on your brawl valve.
10. Wrap a attenuate band of Teflon band to the threaded end of your macho corrupt barb, again cilia it into your brawl valve.
11. Ensure a bound fit of all connections, but be abiding to not overtighten or you accident arise the bank of the cooler.
12. Leak-test your acknowledgment application balmy water. Most leaks (if any) can be apparent by artlessly readjusting the binding of the accoutrement on anniversary area of the valve accumulation and/or applying added Teflon tape.
13. Enjoy your acknowledgment day!
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