Oxygen

[BHaas]

I am looking to upgrade from aeration to oxygenation. My ideal setup would be a medical oxygen tank with regulator and flowmeter. Any body know how difficult this would be to obtain? I would consider settling for a welding oxygen tank (not the little ones from menards) but ideally it would have some form of a flowmeter. Not a welder so not sure if this is even an option. Any suggestions?

[Gabe Stalder]

B

I just checked my oxy-acetylene rig.  I don't think that would be the way to go-it's feasible (actually looks pretty straightforward) but you're not really gaining anything and I'd worry about residual acetylene in the chamber.  I assume over-oxygenation is an issue so you'd need a flow meter, right?

Keep us posted
Gabe

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:24:54 -0700
From: bha...@gmail.com
To: malt-masters-...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Oxygen

[david acklie]

You should be able to use a welding setup like they use for TIG welding with argon as they use a pretty good flow metering regulator. Over oxygenating shouldn't matter too much. It will foam over your fermentor before that point. As long as the wort is below 80 deg, it shouldn't be a problem. Or at least thats what I understand.  

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[BHaas]

Yeah I would like the flowmeter for better consistency. Rather than letting it rip for x amount of time each beer.  

On Saturday, July 7, 2012 7:35:52 PM UTC-5, greatplainsbrewer wrote:

B

I just checked my oxy-acetylene rig.  I don't think that would be the way to go-it's feasible (actually looks pretty straightforward) but you're not really gaining anything and I'd worry about residual acetylene in the chamber.  I assume over-oxygenation is an issue so you'd need a flow meter, right?

Keep us posted
Gabe

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:24:54 -0700
From: bha...@gmail.com

To: malt-masters-homebrew-club@googlegroups.com