Re: Adaptor Fitting for Silvia Brew Temps

Andy -

It's tight on the E61 because the M6 allen head appears more recessed (from
Lino's cad drawings on HB) than Silvia. If a hardcore E61 owner expresses
interest, I would send them the Swagelok drawing and let them tell me what
mods it MAY require.

Eric S.

"Andy Schecter" <schecter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Eric Svendson wrote:
>> I "designed" a brass male connector to take the place of the M6 x 8 mm
>> allen head screw in Silvia's grouphead. I started with Swagelok p/n
>> B-100-1-1BT and modified one in my "shop".
>>
>> I plan on installing the homemade part after I go through 12 oz of beans
>> laying around. First things first as I'm sure you can understand.
>>
>> The proposed "group buy" connector is a custom quote from Swagelok (a
>> Swagelok pdf dwg is available) and is intended to accept a 1/16 OD
>> thermocouple of your choosing - total cost about $20 including postage
>> and new copper washer whether I want 1 or 41. I do get a break after 50
>> but I figure the chances of having 50 hardcore Silvia owners out there
>> are low. It will seal with a 6 mm copper sealing washer (no tape, no
>> soldering, no epoxy) and would be measuring brew water temps a little
>> over an inch from the outlet above the dispersion screen.
>>
>> Delivery to me would be 8 wks after receipt of order BUT all I'm trying
>> to do here is to gauge interest.
>
> Any reason why this wouldn't work for the E61 users, also, for their M6
> screw? They would greatly expand your "market."
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> -Andy S.
> picture page: http://tinyurl.com/eh0x


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