Stir Plate test run - homebrew yeast starter device

I followed instructions in Zymurgy and BYO (and the internet) and made this box. More details on my website. Donsborn(dot)com.

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Education

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• donosborn
• yeast
• starter
• build
• homebrew
• make
• stir
• bar

[donosborn]

See, that is why you are the master and I am only a humble, um, non-master guy.

[GamesterX69]

AWESOME!! I just wired one up myself following your how-to "used a rheostat from a lamp I didnt need anymore" I mocked it up in a cardboard box and need to build or find a wood box still, The only thing I'm doing different is mounting from the bottom, I used some hard plastic water line "left over from hooking up the ice maker in my fridge" as spacers over the screws to place the magnet 1/16" from the lid.

[boxerbug416]

I see you must have stopped at NB and picked up a flask.

You did a way nicer job on yours than I did mine.

I am shamed.

[texabamabrackish]

Very cool... and price-efficient.

[kc7fys]

This is pretty good. You should have used countersunk head bolts to make the surface flush, then a small circle of felt or electrician's tape over the heads would hide them and give you a flask-friendly top surface. Also, a lamp dimmer of any kind will also do to bring your speed range down to 'barely stirring' if you need that, too.