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15 Gallon Keggle
I always keep an eye on Craigslist for brewing equipment, which there has been very little of lately. But I also try to look through the listings for things I could re-purpose for brewing. There was a guy up north not far from where our cottage is that had a home made dust collector for sale. I wasn't particularly interested in a dust collector, but what did interest me was the container for it was a big stainless steel pot. With handles, and a base it can sit in with four heavy duty casters. So I drove by yesterday and picked it up. The kettle is 18 inches in diameter and 30 inches tall. Plump full would be awful close to 30 gallons. For $70.00. The top is a piece of one inch thick Delrin that I know I can find uses for. The intake is a piece of 4 inch stainless tube with triclover fittings, and the blower has a like new 1/2 horse Marathon electric motor.
I am going to have to do a little scrubbing on the pot to clean it up a bit, but a good soak in PBW should do wonders for it. So I guess I won't have any trouble doing 10 gallon batches now, and I won't have to worry about boilovers. 
So if I get a big cooler to use as a mashtun, would the 8 gallon pot I have now be big enough for a HLT? If I wanted to set up a HERMS system?
Looks like I am going to have to modify my immersion chiller to use with this monster.........
I got my new kettle cleaned up. Some PBW and a Scotchbrite pad did wonders for the inside and I scrubbed the outside with Barkeepers Friend. It is looking pretty darn good. I'm not sure what gauge stainless it is, but I set it on the bathroom scale and it weighed 36 pounds. Good thing it came with a dolly to roll it around with because I don't think I am going to want to carry this one with even five gallons of hot wort.
I'm thinking of building my own version of a BIAB system, all electric. One vessel, a pump for recirculation during the mash, a strainer of some sort to hold the grain, a pid, ssr and RTD for temperature control and a 5500 watt element in the kettle. Should be a pretty straightforward build. Just have to snake some heavy 220 line through the basement to the garage, that will be the hard part.
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