FastRack FastFerment - I'm getting one

It arrived. I made a stand for it like someone on another home brewing forum had posted. It's OK, but I think I can do a bit better. I have a sample wardrobe cabinet at work that I can re-purpose I think. Now I either need to finish a keg or get another keg so I have someplace to go with the next batch.

 

First post here. Not an advertiser, like someone commented about above. Just got into brewing this year, so take everything I have to say with a grain of salt. About a week and a half ago I bought one of these. My local brew shop has been pushing it, and the price is actually less than their beginners beer kit. I already have everything else I need (for now), but I was going to buy another carboy, so I could brew two beers at the same time, when they talked to me about the FastFerment.

I built a stand for it for the basement of of a few 2x4s, and it came out fairly well. Problem was, the next beer I was planning on brewing was an Oktoberfest that I needed to lager. I started scratching my head, and although I had taken a measurement at first with the FastFerment and their wire stand, and determined it would not fit in my lager fridge, I determined that their is enough height in the fridge for the FastFerment itself. The problem would be how to mount it.

I came up with a mount using the FastFerment wall brackets, a 2x8, brackets from the wire shelving of the fridge, and a few fasteners. It's been hanging in the fridge for a week now, no issues. Another week, and the fermentation should be done, I'll dump the collection ball, and bring it up to diactyl rest, then begin the lagering process. End of September I should have a nice Oktoberfest brew.

 

Fake! It's defying the laws of physics, that is!

 

How do you know the fridge isn't spinning very quickly around an axis to the left side of the picture?

 

It seems like fermentation temperature would be the hardest variable to tackle. I never thought about tipping my chest freezer on its end until now.

 

First time post - I have a Fast Fermenter and have an IPA in it right now for the first try. I installed in a quiet closet with the supplied brackets. I do like the way the trub falls into the ball so I've removed, cleaned, sanitized, added distilled water back into to keep the air exposure down (although it will drop FG). There still seems to be some really thick trub on the sides of the bottom of the cone above the ball and it doesn't seem to want to get free even if I let some of the beer out. Some of it has been dropping into the water in the ball but not completely. I plan to rack next week and I just know those first bottles (maybe all) are going to be very gunky.
Any suggestions on how to avoid this?
Do I move it to a carboy, let it settle, move back to Fast Fermenter which really defeats the purpose of a All-in-One closed system. It really needs a valve above the neck so the gunk falls lower and the beer is away from it, instead of running through the trub. I would love to install my own valve but I might totally screw it up. And next time I'll really watch when that ball is full so I don't end up will all that gunk above the ball. I built my own stand for it so it can be placed at a workable level when I'm ready to rack. (I would have attached photos but I can't seem to be able to)