Copper tubing for immersion chiller - Durbs

[FriedPiggy]

Any ideas on where to buy this stuff? At my flipping wits end here.
So far I have tried

Homeaire - don't sell those to the public.
Hirsch aircon - same thing
Northside electrical - Have them shown on their website, but my local branch doesn't have stock and will only get again in 1-2 weeks. Also they only sell 15m long rolls of the stuff.
A few of the smaller aircon places I have called also don't sell to the public

I am hoping a fellow Durban brewer will have some sage advice on where I can find this ****ing tubing. About to give up one ever finding it myself.

[daan_man]

Hi

I'm in JHB, not sure if you have a Leroy Merlin close by they have both normal cooper pipes and the soft coil type used with Aircon's

https://leroymerlin.co.za/catalogsea...sult/?q=copper

[FriedPiggy]

Sadly Leroy Merlin is only in JHB.

[Langchop]

Any ideas on where to buy this stuff? At my flipping wits end here.
So far I have tried

Homeaire - don't sell those to the public.
Hirsch aircon - same thing
Northside electrical - Have them shown on their website, but my local branch doesn't have stock and will only get again in 1-2 weeks. Also they only sell 15m long rolls of the stuff.
A few of the smaller aircon places I have called also don't sell to the public

I am hoping a fellow Durban brewer will have some sage advice on where I can find this ****ing tubing. About to give up one ever finding it myself.

Go with that. Its going to take you a week of research and hunting around anyway. 15m is the typical length they come in, at LM as well.

[CaPunT]

What Lang said.

I bought a 15m one and made a ribcage chiller with it. works liek a charm.

Just be careful if buying a pump for it, the pump needs to be powerful enough since there is a lot of resistance.
I got a 620L/h pump and it barely does the job(i need to raise my coolerbox to my urn's level for a decent flow).

[jay95]

Try Metraclark in KZN : https://www.metraclark.co.za/south-african-branches/

Bought mine at Cape Town branch years ago.

[JIGSAW]

Any ideas on where to buy this stuff? At my flipping wits end here.
So far I have tried

Homeaire - don't sell those to the public.
Hirsch aircon - same thing
Northside electrical - Have them shown on their website, but my local branch doesn't have stock and will only get again in 1-2 weeks. Also they only sell 15m long rolls of the stuff.
A few of the smaller aircon places I have called also don't sell to the public

I am hoping a fellow Durban brewer will have some sage advice on where I can find this ****ing tubing. About to give up one ever finding it myself.

That's going to exactly how much you'll need

[AlexBrew]

You could always - like I did, make an immersion chiller from 15mm hard drawn copper tubing. The come in 5.5m lengths. hard drawn copper is kind-off cumbersome to work with - difficult to bend, kinks easily and finished product looks crooked. Though once constructed they are solid and work well.

[jakeslouw]

You could always - like I did, make an immersion chiller from 15mm hard drawn copper tubing. The come in 5.5m lengths. hard drawn copper is kind-off cumbersome to work with - difficult to bend, kinks easily and finished product looks crooked. Though once constructed they are solid and work well.

yes, you can do this by doing a square design: lots of cutting but if you use the new crimp connectors, no soldering needed

https://www.builders.co.za/Plumbing/...00000000152114

[AlexBrew]

I posted on this before .. My boet is a plumber and he's got a proper mobile pipe bender, so every cm or so you make a small bend in the pipe - until you're going round in coils, about 27cm dia. Laborious process.

The day it was made:
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..and then fitted hosepipe connectors:
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EDIT: Pipe bender
pipe bender.jpg