Thanks to kiwistiller for suggesting the design that I used as a pattern for a lot of my still. new_ moonshiner built the Reflux condenser for me. We went with the vertical type with a coil inside with the slant plates added for foreshots removal (sorry no photo available). He also gave me a lot of tips and help along the way. Thanks again new_moonshiner.
rad14701 suggested a 4' column since I was using 2" copper pipe. After building it, I discovered it would make my set up too tall for the room I was using so I had to remove about a foot.
I put the brass gate valve I had bought to use in my water well parts box after JethroBodine posted what would happen when you used brass, and replaced it with a SS one. Also note in the picture below that I used Hawke's idea of grinding out the pipe stop in the bottom of that union which is brass. Hawke mentioned that what I am calling brass may in reality be bronze.
The top of the union is copper so very little, if any, vapor is exposed to brass in this connection.
For the liebig condenser I designed myself I used 1" copper pipe for the water jacket with a reducer at the bottom to close the water jacket
and a bushing as the vapor input and to close the top of the water jacket. Half of the big end of the bushing is in the coupler and the other half in the tee with 6 inches of ½ pipe connected to the small end pointing down toward the bottom.
I used a reducer to connect the 3/8" pipe to the ½" pipe because I wanted 3/8" inch pipe the rest of the way to the output end. I could not find any reducers or bushings that went from 1" down to 3/8". They would only go down to 1/2".
In case some of you do not know a bushing is basically the same as a reducer except the OD of the big end of a bushing is the same as the OD of the pipe in question while the ID of a reducer is the same as the OD of the pipe in question.
Before I started this project I had never worked with copper pipe and fittings, and never used one of those little propane torches to solder, but as olddog pointed out all it takes is practice. I now am comfortable sweating copper pipe and fittings, and doing a fairly decent job. One thing that did not take any practice was to learn how to get my thumb out of that propane torch flame damn fast, and not to ever put it back in.
Thanks to all for your encouragement and help, and a special thanks to LWTCS for pointing out a flaw I had in posting pictures on forums which has now been corrected.
Bert (ammo man)
. My work is more of a "function not fashion" venture, but I do appreciate someone who does both 
. Keep posting shiney copper pics and may you have many wonderful hours getting a nice patina on that new rig.
