Finally built a parrot

[Steve Broady]

Nothing too original here, but I felt like sharing. I was inspired by a parrot built by BourbonJunkie, and finally got around to building my own. It’s a 1” pipe body and 3/8” tubing, and a 1”x1.5” coupling for the collector.

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I started by drilling and flaring a hole in the coupling to fit the tubing. I had to anneal the copper to get the flare formed.

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I cut one end of the 1” pipe at an angle, then cut notches in it to accept the tubing while leaving it sitting around 1/8” proud. I also drilled out a 1/4”x1/8” NPT bushing to fit on the tubing, then soldered everything together.

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Once that was cooled, I ground away a little more than half the tubing inside the pipe so that liquid can flow freely between the two.

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I flattened a scrap of pipe and formed a trough in it so that it fit neatly over the tubing, then soldered it in place.

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Of course there was plenty of filing and sanding to clean everything up and make it look nice. The rest of the build is pretty self explanatory, but I will say it was a bit of a challenge to solder all the joints without overheating the ones I’d already done.

Now to clean it up and put it to work.