Do I know what I'm doing????????

[Almanac]

I recommend you try to get your hands on at least one Stainless Steel beer keg, they make a great boiler. There's some cutting and welding to be done to fit the drain/tap and the opening for your element(s) and to fit a ferrule to the top opening but you'd have to do all that with any vessel you propose to use.

This was my build...


This is the 11" 2Kw element I had fitted as standard and I also have a 3Kw that screws into the same fitting for strips, just to speed things up.



Made a new friend who's an engineer and did the welding for me at small cost. I got my two kegs free from a big brewery after writing to them begging but you can buy them too.

The big advantage of beer kegs, to me, is that they are very durable and stable too

AM