{"id":3331,"date":"2011-03-26T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:46:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T02:46:44","slug":"repaired-carboy-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/repaired-carboy-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Repaired Carboy Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/brewing_beer\/IMG_6020.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96779-2\/IMG_6020.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Fermentation carboy neck after filing and sanding it to smooth the broken edges. It should now be usable again.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/broken-carboy-neck\/\">snapping the neck off of my carboy<\/a> I thought I was going to have to buy a new one, but as it appeared to be a clean break I decided to try fixing it instead. A bit of wet filing and sanding (while wearing heavy clothing, respirator, and safety glasses) has smoothed the neck back out and I think it&#8217;ll be just fine to use. Later today I&#8217;ll swing by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capncorkhomebrew.com\/\">Cap N Cork<\/a> and pick up a larger stopper so that it can be airtight and then it&#8217;ll be ready to go, whenever the next batch of beer is due to be brewed. This also saves ~$45 and having to deal with throwing out a torso-sized broken piece of glass.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m currently on track to have three kegs of beer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/kegged-beer-cooler-complete\/\">kegged beer cooler<\/a> in three weeks with one more carboy aging and ready to replace whatever runs out first. Long-term I hope to keep three kegs available at all times with one aging. This should allow for sufficient choice and also enough beer if there&#8217;s an unexpected party or gathering here. Of course, this presumes that all batches made are good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/brewing_beer\/IMG_6018.jpg.html\">Here is a photo of the broken neck before smoothing.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After snapping the neck off of my carboy I thought I was going to have to buy a new one, but as it appeared to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/repaired-carboy-neck\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repaired Carboy Neck<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-food","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}