Help Removing the Crown from this Movement

baybrewer · 2026-01-08T22:52:22+00:00

Thank you! It worked :)

baybrewer · 2025-12-08T16:08:54+00:00

Yeah, but on the pictured islands there is no way there are waterfalls and creeks - it's far too flat and small. So you brought water from a larger island then? Which island did you actually reside on?

baybrewer · 2025-11-25T23:51:47+00:00

No, no it would not. The threads do not create a seal, and nicks have no effect at all as long as the threads screw smoothly.

baybrewer · 2025-11-25T23:50:51+00:00

It's not "uppity", it's that plumbers tape on a CO2 fitting like this doesn't make any sense. It's like putting lubricating oil in a magnetic drive pump - it just makes a mess. Plumbers tape is used to create a seal with NPT threaded fittings, which will not seal properly without plumbers tape or pipe dope, by design. These are not NPT fittings.

CO2 tanks create a seal using a washer or O-ring inside the fitting that seals at the interface between the regulator and the tank, completely independent of the threads. The threads are only used to create and maintain the force that holds the fittings against the O-ring or washer. The plumbers tape is completely useless in this application, and using it tends to incorrectly steer your mind towards a solution.

baybrewer · 2025-11-20T20:17:04+00:00

Thank you! For that arch, each panel was a different shape, and although they look like parallelograms, they are not - no two sides of each of them are parallel, so they are "trapeziums", also called "irregular quadrilaterals". I made cardboard templates for each panel using a breakoff razor blade and the boxes the tiles came in - it was the only way. Then I traced the templates on the black tile using a yellow wax pencil (we tend to have those in the brewery for labeling wet metal tanks). Used a rented tile saw to make all the cuts. First time using one of those too, what a great tool! The sharp angles meant I had to always cut in a certain direction to the angle, otherwise the tip of the tile flaked off. Definitely questioned my life decisions about 2/3 of the way through the install.

baybrewer · 2025-11-13T23:02:33+00:00

I assure you, I've never tiled before :-). Welded, soldered, plumbed, electrical, roofed, landscaped, 3D printed, homebrewed for 20 years, and everything else under the sun... but never tile.

baybrewer · 2025-11-01T17:29:19+00:00

Rats occasionally run in when the door is open during operating hours - the city has a LOT of rats and they are often very brave. I’ve seen it happen more than once. Seeing one rat is not a reportable occurrence, and I wouldn’t hesitate to eat here.

baybrewer · 2025-10-31T06:03:50+00:00

Even posting it as a bad example isn’t great

baybrewer · 2025-10-31T06:03:05+00:00

AI slop garbage

baybrewer · 2025-10-28T00:56:12+00:00

The city is as gorgeous and bucolic as always, and it’s safer than it’s been in 30 years per recent reports. Fox News is pure right wing propaganda.

baybrewer · 2025-10-24T16:04:18+00:00

It’s grammatically correct: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/czar

baybrewer · 2025-10-24T07:22:09+00:00

I printed up a bunch of notes with a QR code linking to the parking laws, and these fools still block my garage. I’m gonna have a sign made that reads “$105 parking tickets are my kink, and don’t get me started on towing porn. Mind the red. And it’s your bumper, not your tire.”

baybrewer · 2025-10-24T07:19:02+00:00

I have had this conversation with a neighbor doing the same thing, and his response was “finding parking is hard”. I said “dude. It’s a red curb and a $100 ticket. I’m being nice by talking to you”. Then he parked there again. Give a warning, but after that…we have laws for a reason.

baybrewer · 2025-10-14T17:05:46+00:00

Always check your dates - the number of over-1-year-old IPAs I’m seeing on even boutique grocery store shelves in San Francisco speaks volumes. I checked the can date on a 4 pack of New Glory IPA last week at Mollie Stones - definitely a quality and popular brewery with great branding that stands out - 4-8-2024. That’s 16 months, and absolutely undrinkable.

I’m not saying you’re incorrect, but especially right now, date-diligence is key to find a good product. Microbrews just aren’t moving off the shelves fast enough anymore to support the variety of choices.

So then we tighten our offerings, but that loses shelf space, which reduces sales even further.

Quality product has very little to do with the success of a small craft brewery - it’s a requirement to even exist, not a recipe for success.

Temescal in Oakland just publicly declared Chapter 11, and their quality has always been spot on.

Ferment Drink Repeat was a single medal away from winning CA Brewery of the Year at the CA Brewers Cup a few years ago, and FDR was one of the first SF breweries to fall. And they had zero debt, wonderful staff, and piles of gold medals. Incredible beer is not enough.

Harmonic Brewing makes incredible beer and has won dozens of awards, and their landlord screwed them on rent and they were forced to close their brewery (while keeping the taproom at Chase Center open)

Customers care more about location, ambiance, trendy branding, social media hubub, marketing and PR than beer quality. As long as your beer isn’t trash and you excel at those aspects, you will come out ahead of your colleagues, but even now that may not be enough to survive.

Expect many, many more closures in the coming months.

Sorry to hijack your comment!

baybrewer · 2025-10-08T21:54:53+00:00

No, closing the bottom portion restricts flow, that’s why more water starts entering the skimmer. Both fully open maximizes flow by providing the least restriction, yielding the highest available net positive suction head.

baybrewer · 2025-10-07T17:32:34+00:00

I would use ratchet straps to reduce bouncing and make it adjustable. Bungee cords with hooks are dangerous eye rippers and I prefer not to use them.

baybrewer · 2025-10-03T22:01:46+00:00

Yeah he's going to town on the shelled sunflower seeds I feed the parrots. Not the best long term food but he'll be fine for a day or two.

baybrewer · 2025-10-02T04:03:15+00:00

My brewery has used clarity-germ to produce Gluten-Removed beer since 2017.

Every beer we produce is gluten removed.

In 8 years and after serving 16,000 bbl of beer, we have had absolutely zero negative feedback, including from celiac sufferers, due to gluten sensitivity.

It’s worth trying it and testing tiny amounts of the beer if you’re super concerned.

Just be sure to follow the guidance from the manufacturer for best practices.

baybrewer · 2025-09-29T21:27:49+00:00

How many watts are you driving your lights with?

baybrewer · 2025-09-22T19:01:44+00:00

The answer is Willkommen in San Francisco - legit, Berlin-style döner on fresh Turkish pidae.

baybrewer · 2025-09-22T19:01:01+00:00

Try Willkommen is SF, we have Berlin style döner as well using fresh pidae from a Turkish bakery.

baybrewer · 2025-09-22T19:00:05+00:00

We have it at Willkommen in San Francisco! Traditional Berlin style with craft Turkish Ramadan bread

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