Finally!

It's taken a while, but I've finally got my pump reconfigured and mounted properly on the sculpture.

For some inexplicable reason, the pump was originally mounted so low that a ball valve handle was literally resting on the bottom of the sculpture frame (the pump wasn't sitting all the way down in it's mounting plate).

I attempted once before to drill into the 304 stainless sculpture to move the pump mounting plate up, but I couldn't find a drill bit strong enough to get through the steel. My alternative was to reconfigure the pump itself. And while that succeeded in having the pump seated properly in the mount and getting the ball valves moved around, the actual functioning of the pump (while brewing) seemed to be negatively affected. So I lived with it...

Recently I've been hitting up various hardware stores to look for parts for the cooler conversion (batch sparging). While doing this, I also started to scope out drill bits again as well. I found a couple that specifically mentioned they were to be used for drilling stainless. Got home, took out some WD-40, and about a half an hour later, after using three different bits and with a touch of grunting, groaning and sweating, I got through the steel! (There was no excessive swearing as that's reserved for when I build computers.)

Last night I moved the mount, did the pump reconfigure, tightened all the disconnects, setup the sculpture, and ran some sanitizer through the hoses, pump, sparge ring, mash tun, etc. Everything seemed to work quite well. Finally!