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Yea mines %85 copy from other peoples designs with a few differences, I'm running gas so I wanted a long out put tube rather than an attached parrot in case a spill happened. Also Olddog's idea to use a 4" angle grinder disc to fit sight glasses to the 4" pipe works well ,did my 3 in 4 min...

Rockchucker:I drilled 1/8 holes around the edge of the base cap then brazed 2 caps together (gave me about 22mm height) and put a 1/2 in copper pipe up the end like a lollipop, I leave a little finger on the end of the 1/2 pipe for a depth gauge when I poke it in, saves any worry on the pipe slippin...

Spooky: 80cm to the start of the dephlamator, I can add a few more plates if needed. Rockchucker: my build is close to yours , only problem I had is the tight-ass copper cap makers, my first caps were 12mm so I decided to weld 2 together to get the height I needed :( ,lol my new batch of caps were 1...

OD, The plan was to use pump on the condenser and town water on the dephlamator , the dephl's don't sound like they need much water when there running after the plates are full. If my pump was better I'd try a garden Y splitter with little on-off taps.

Here's my 98% finished 3 bubble plate, thermometer and glass cutter are still in the post somewhere .

I've been thinking of using a 1/2 needle valve on my dephlag ( shotgun) for a bit more control but I'm not sure if the flow rate would be to low for the knock down at the start.

I got brew shop to import some 493 into Aus for me a few weeks back but haven't tried it yet, going to be watching Kiwi's efforts to see how he rates it vs bakers/brewers yeast. If any Aussie's with a fair bit of rum xp want a bit to try I'm happy to post a small bit , just pm me.

Thanks for the welcome guys, Maxx it's more like gumboot weather this year around Tully but on the bright side I only have to dive a few k's to get cheap Molasses from the sugar mill, trying to get one of the guys at the mill to get me a 44 of first run
molasses to try.

Hi, I picked up a barrel union to play with ( cutting up ) and while putting the nut on with out the tail I think got a winner.Don't think I'll need to do much, cut the small nut back and cut a groove across the thread to drain out.

Hi, after reading the forums for a fair while I thought it's time to say hello and big thanks to the people contributing to HD. So far I've tried just about everything from 1.6lb all grain to infected rum wash run through my 30l pot & VM combo still. My next project is a 4" flute on a 50l k...