water pump tea brewer

[OGkushistein]

well guys after digging through my shed and finding the old air pumps i come to find out they don't work ... anyone way to make a recirculating system to brew cap's bennie's or will it clog the pump?

 

[aSilvrHaze]

My brother did it with a smaller ecoplus but he wasn't using any solids IRC

 

[OGkushistein]

I wasn't aware that all it took was some punk ass kiddie pump thank you @nightmarecreature and @aSilvrHaze .. so much for customer service ...

 

[nightmarecreature]

Cap told me a 4 hour brew is all that is needed.

I have 10 years of amatuer mycology work. I've had spores easily viable after 5 years in the fridge. Caps packs should last about 1 1/2 years at room temp but in the fridge 5 years.

Cap was dealing with funeral issues. He's been super busy. Im sure he's busy catching up on his business.

 

[sealed138]

I've used a inline pump before. I believe it worked great, but I did use a large air pump also. Make sure and put the pump on a recycle timer. I set mine on 2 min off 30.

 

[Seamaiden]

well guys after digging through my shed and finding the old air pumps i come to find out they don't work ... anyone way to make a recirculating system to brew cap's bennie's or will it clog the pump?

What kind of recirc pump? is my first question. In my experience using impeller-driven pumps the impeller shreds microbes when they're passed through it repeatedly. A diaphragm pump is the ticket here.

 

[OGkushistein]

I'm not to sure they are hand me down's teel sump pump's ..They are used to clear the water out of a decent sized above ground pool at the end of the summer ... I purchased a air pump but now my interest is focused on using these pumps to build a undercurrent system

 

[Seamaiden]

Most sump pumps I'm familiar with use an impeller drive, they're not diaphragm pumps. I think if you go that route and recirculate using those pumps you'll end up shredding your 'crobes. Of course, I could be wrong. Microbeman has scoped teas after a single or few passes through an impeller and says he didn't see diminished life or activity, but my aquatic experience dictates that repeated, recirculating passes through impellers will kill 'crobes such as plankton.

 

[localhero]

you might want to try using pumps with impellars similar to
the tidalwave 2 sh series pumps or savio pumps.

sorry I cant figure out how to put a pic in here, but here is a link to the kind of impellar i am talking about: www.bullfrogpondsupplies.com/cw3/assets/product_full/impeller-300.jpg

 

[Seamaiden]

That's an impeller and it will shred microbes. Diaphragm pump is what you want.

 

[QLTYlab]

Not sure how large a brewer you need but Dewey Misters work well for brewing.