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Ok thank you I appreciate it. I understand now,

Hi guys, sitting here board I was reading through the parent site looking through the still and I was checking out the continuous still, I know there is no practical need for it. But if you remove the heads at the top of the still and you have another offset head lower to catch the hearts. and the t...

Thanks ozone. Sorry it took me so long to respond lifes been crazy. Now when the vapor enters the still it travels up the side tubes then drops through the middle of the condenser then re flashes in the second coil then travels out my side tube up to my top coil thats in the condenser. So i assume i...

Thank you. Here is the lower coil and the top coil. Do you think I fudged it up?
Should I make my secondary condenser bigger maybe 3/8 Id instead of 3/8 od?

Thanks ozone. If I turn my pump up full blast it cools the top so well that nothing will come out no vapor no liquid nothing. Did you ever have that problem? If I turn the flow down and get the condenser warm on the bottom hot on the top I get a nice steady stream but with puffs.

Thank you. I will give it a try. You think more heat? I'm gonna put some ss in the condenser and make another run Sunday.
Thanks again!

I'm sorry I'm a idiot. My condenser isn't soldered shut. My tube is 1/4 inch is it OK to stuff some in there? Think it will help?

The only problem is the condenser is soldered closed I guess I could unsolder it.
I tryed to copy ozones still.
This was my first time soldering and brazing.

Hey everyone I finally did a cleaning run and a alcohol run. Stayed at 178 the hole time with a 120v heating element no controller yet I have all the parts just have to put it together. My only problem is that it seemed like my condenser was either cooling to well about 1 drip every 3 seconds or if ...

OK thanks everyone. Don't know what I would do without this site. I will finish building my controller. Yea it was steady at 179 so that's fine. And my thermometer is at the top of my column were it should be.
thanks!

Hey everyone I was running my still tonight and I couldn't get the temperature below 179. Am I doing something wrong cause everything I have read says you want 172. I had a charge of 5 gallon of 40% in there plus one gallon of water. My setup is a 15 gallon keg. 1500 watt heating element no controll...

Thank you! Ya know as many times as I had read that post I should have known. Thanks again

Yep that's what I have here.


Any chance you might gave a link to the other one I can build with those ssr

I bought a ssr from Newark and then I found these I just wanted to build a pha se angle controller. So you don't think it will work? Electrical is new to me. I'm sorry if its a dumb question

Found three of these at my local steel house in the electrical room and I was wondering if they will work. They were 2 bucks a piece so I figured if they wont o well.
They also had them up to 480v but I figures they were useless.

Sorry for the giant pictures

Hey everyone this was my first time brazing and soldering. I liked ozones still so much I decided to make one myself. Of course no were near as nice.

Drain for boiler

Slowly collecting parts. found this monster and a 3/4 stainless valve at the same yard today.

Cost me 14 bucks. So i guess thats good. I ran out of time today so tommorow ill see what else they have

Found this at my local steel house. Its a 5x3 316 stainless steel reducer. Its a little thick but im sure it will work. Any thoughts?

Thats why i was thinking boka to cut down on cost. But on the other hand your very correct

So a super sized version of this? That would be a awesome build just super expensize

Ok so i feel confident enough to build a flute how many plates do you suggest i just wanna go for a neutral maybe 7 maybe 10?

yea i dont wannna start going to big with it.i guess ill scrap it. i really wanted to make a boka still but i guess my pipe is to big.

I'm a welder fabricator so making a stand is no problem at all. And a reducer is 299 for a 5 to 3 inch.
What would you build with it?

Could you explain to me why a boka wont work for this pipe?

Is there any good builds on here making a flute? I didn't realize how expensive 90s and 45s holy crap are those bad boys expensive. The boka seemed super easy to build out of one piece

I just figured I had it I would put it to use. I guess I just wasted money. I guess I could.make a pot still for stripping runs