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Gypsum is Plaster of Paris. Get it any craft or artist supply. Lifetime supply for $5.

You can make a chiller from a small window AC unit.

Can I ask how you are going to make (or buy?) the elbows?

I think many column stills get operated incorrectly. That said I made a list of things to buy at the likker store based on the recomendations found in this thread. The list: Tito's handmade vodka Bernheims original Kentucky straight wheat whiskey Del Barrelitos 3 star rum Four Roses Yellow Lable I g...

That would be a lot of fun to watch. How much will it hold?

jeez....

Looks to me that you might have been able to anneal the 45 and the reducer and pound the 45 in and the reducer out till they matched one another.

How much does it cost?

I am envious. I would guess you could make it in one piece. Pics!

Hey if its working, it's working. Good on ya. I only see one thing to worry about and that is if it pukes. It looks like something that could plug up and pressurize. I would put some kind of pressure relief on it.

Oh, and a lot of interesting chemistry happens within just a couple of molecules thickness of the surface of the liquid. Never are all the possible molecular sites possible at the surface of a liquid sites with enough energy to liberate that molecule. As these very energized but still unable to leav...

Evaporation and boiling are two different things. We can evaporate without boiling, and we can certainly evaporate while boiling. But we're only talking about evaporation. Evaporation is a surface effect. If enough energy is applied to the molecules at the surface of a liquid, molecules will begin t...

I used SS sink strainer baskets. Cheap and I just cut the ring off and pushed them in. They go in easy one way and are hard to remove the other. They might hold marbles in.

That's impressive Dndrhead. That's a kind of work I know I could enjoy. Opportunities to get a paycheck doing that sort of thing seem kinda slim though.

I wonder if a guy could "unroll" pieces of hard copper pipe and put it back together into a column like one of those on that website.

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HAR!!! Great link dnderhead. I wish I could make up a column with an onion and a graceful lyne arm like whats seen on that site. I'm changing my thinking and am now agreeing that a larger column and lyne arm is not the same as a 1/2" id tube, no matter how far up it goes first. I can't explain why t...

"Here's the important bit: IF 1/2" guy has the same amount of reflux before condensing as 3" guy" Let's call refluxing the vapor that returns to the boiler, and condensing the vapor that ends up in the jar. I don't know how much vertical distance 1/2" guy would have to have to equal the refluxing ac...

The guy that runs the scale at the scrap yard is yer next new friend. Bring some scrap in and ask to look around out back. If it's a good yard, everything you need will be there.

A great discussion. Thanks to all who have contributed. I hope what follows makes sense and that some might agree. If they do then I am understanding things. Possibly better though, if some disagree, and then I might learn something if those same would choose to explain away my misunderstandings. It...

You guys have verified what I've come to understand about the rig I'm using now. 2.5 inch column on a beer keg. Even though I can accept and knock down a lot of vapor, to make that volume of vapor using a 16 inch diameter keg requires me to boil it too hard and it's all a waste of time. I'm stuck ha...

Thanks for all the replies. I'm not sure what to make of the results of this poll of sorts. There seems to be quite a difference in collection rates. I was predicting a little more consistency. I have to ask if everyone that responded is using a keg for a boiler. Swagging it I get and average of abo...

This question is just for folks doing pot still spirit runs using only a keg for a boiler. I'm just trying to find out how many mL per hour everyone is collecting at during their spirit runs.

Yeah, the sputtering, or having too much vapor speed at the top, is what worries me the most. It's not going to do me much good if I have to run it so slow that it's not worth it, and maybe create so much reflux at the same time that it's no longer a pot still.

Thanks for the replies. I am glad no one pointed me to the home site yet. :D I appears that I'm right that the reflux ratio of those types of stills isn't mentioned there. My intention is to spiral the tubing up. I know the vapor speed will likely be tremendous as it initially passes into the tubing...

I'll take my lumps if this info is on the parent site somewhere. I looked (honest!) but I can't find what I'm looking for. Picture one of those commercial pot stills that have one of those tall cone shaped parts rising from the top of the boiler and then curving over into the condenser section. I fi...

Thanks for the suggestions. Maybe I should have wrote that I went to 5 feed and ag stores, big and small, in between here and there and basically got a "We don't carry that anymore," or "I haven't heard of that being used, but check out these other products," or "This stuff has molasses in it. Is th...

Can't find it. From Las Vegas to central Utah. No one has it.

But, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. Anyone have a source they wouldn't mind sharing that is somewhere in the above area?

they ALL say "that stuff will kill you/make you go blind/etc.

That's the way it is in my experience. Much ignorance and plenty of prejudice.

That old fashioned stuff would have me dancin' the quickstep in short order...