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&amp;quot;Hombre Lúpulo&amp;quot;:1cclq2kg wrote: Where's a good bricks and mortar spot to pick up bungee cords?[/quote:1cclq2kg]

The Great Outdoors on Chatham Street has bungee cord, quite cheap too.

I'm planning to convert a fridge into a fermentation chamber just like the one pictured in the final photo of your guide, using an ATC 800. I also plan to ferment using glass carboys. Which raises a minor problem: how to allow the carbon dioxide to escape while the temperature probe is inserted in the beer? I don't like using the conical rubber stoppers in my glass carboy for fear of it squeezing inside by mistake. So I usually use one of those rubber caps you slip around the top. But would boring an extra hole in one of these present an infection risk do you reckon? Any thoughts on how to make a glass carboy work in this situation?

&amp;quot;Dr Jacoby&amp;quot;:3ixl641k wrote: I'm planning to convert a fridge into a fermentation chamber just like the one pictured in the final photo of your guide, using an ATC 800. I also plan to ferment using glass carboys. Which raises a minor problem: how to allow the carbon dioxide to escape while the temperature probe is inserted in the beer? I don't like using the conical rubber stoppers in my glass carboy for fear of it squeezing inside by mistake. So I usually use one of those rubber caps you slip around the top. But would boring an extra hole in one of these present an infection risk do you reckon? Any thoughts on how to make a glass carboy work in this situation?[/quote:3ixl641k]

The carboy caps that I use have two holes in the top of them anyway.
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Dr Jacoby, This is stupid question but have you tried to fit the carboy in the fridge with that cap on? If it is an under counter fridge like mine you will have a problem. My Carboys wouldn't fit in mine so I have to use Plastic buckets. I have done 3 fermentations in my under counter fridge and had no problems with allowing the carbon dioxide to escape . It seems to always find away out.
I have my probe in a rubber bung in the lid of the plastic buckets. I have had no issues. The gasses do fill the fridge though. When I have fermented lagers, the stench of Sulpher dioxide was overwhelming when you opened the fridge. <!-- s:!: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_exclaim.gif" alt="" title="Exclamation" /><!-- s:!: -->