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Put the sweep on the bottom, you have a valve to control flow anyway so it's no biggie if it lets too much through

Double helix != double wound

You could do it in 3/8" in 3". I'd go for 5/16" at least. Stuff it with mesh (cause why not). At 9" it should be sweet though

Why do you need a return to column valve as well as a take off valve? Is it so you got like RLM and LM?

I have spirals of 1.6mm tig wire inside all 5 of the tubes in my shotgun. It's an overkill piece of equipment anyway so its hard to say.. but nothing gets out, thats for sure

I ended up using head pressure, rather than flow direction. This T is sitting around in a bag as it has been since we welded it up Maybe I'll do something with it this weekend, would be interesting!

Lol. Prairiepiss has a good point, hadn't even thought of that. Some sort of catching condensate-catching device (ie slant-plate or bubble plate) will be required to direct the reflux. If you have that you may as well smash a valve on and have a LM/VM combo. Or at least a plugged take-off so you can...

LW - could be way off base here but - that's at the bottom of the column based on the excerpt?

What about half way up? That leaves you half-way between the two methods.. seems like it would be problematic to me?

I'm probably wrong though.. I'm okay with it!

What thread prairiepiss?

You want your return below your VM take-off ideally.. but not half-way down the packing o_o

On top, to be sure.

Where's that thermo from?

Real?

The top plate give different results?

Isn't it just vapor path - plate - vapor path - dephlegmator, no matter which way you do it?

I'm just talkin shit here but - I don't see how this would be the case? Maybe a very small difference but surely not by much?

So ethanol vapor is heavier than air. Therefore, the greater the distance between your take-off and coil condenser, the greater the weight of the ethanol pushing down on the take-off. Basically, if the distance is bigger, you can have a smaller take-off arm and achieve the same rate. Think about it ...

Cut them off at like 40mm ID I reckon. 1" is getting pretty small. But primo!

How'd you get em cut?

If your column isn't too narrow at any point, and your still doesn't leak, it will probably work.. don't get too caught up in exact dimensions, I am slowly coming around (a little ) to rad's way of thinking in some departments.. just build it ..

I want to start building my first still, and would love any advice, suggestions, concerns etc. This might look a little extreme for a first build but I figure it might as well also be my last. My logic is there’s no point fucking around. I want to make a 3 inch vm/lm combo. The build will be all st...

I'm in ChCh too, you got that WPOSW on yet?

Am spending the day whipping up the prototype for some nice tri-clamp sight glass units I'm gonna be selling.. I got a quote for the glass disc component for $1.00 each. When I mentioned it needed to withstand about 100 degrees the guy said I'd need Robax, and it would cost 5$ each.. what kind of gl...

Yes THM, I have read, and understood, the rules.


Think I'll stay away from anywhere except the commercial links section in the future.

Christchurch bro. Spend a fair bit of time in akl one way n another though.

You ever wanna take ya stilling to the next level and get a ss VM or LM.. look me up

Man, pretty heavy.. just a wee joke as far as I can see?

No need to go coming down heavy.. Nobody's posting detailed instructions on the synthesis of methamphetamine..

That sorta stuff can kill the mood quick!

Don't stress it too much buddy, I'm with you on this one. Plus.. I put so much other shit into my body.. a bit of plastic would have to be one of the safer things

You in NZ?

Yeah, who cares.. I thought you were all old buggers except for us sprightly young NZers

Boy you spent some dollars on them..

What was your starting %?

Hey buddy. With a valved reflux and WPOSW I guess you made yourself some neutral. No blending to do there really - you wanna take the hearts cut and that's it (for me, anyways. Guess I just wanna drink without tasting anything usually :P) As for finishing and aging: You could run it through some car...

They showed us the pic on our 6 o'clock news. Hope I don't get banned for this, it's pretty rough :D http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tpnrTZSgs5Y/Tb6LDyOaWII/AAAAAAAAB-s/XYntx88Kw-8/s320/osama%2Bkilled.jpg ONE - NIL! PS Couldn't find the high res version sorry chaps. The one I saw on the news was a much mo...

Come on guys, be serious for a minute. How do you think it would affect Obama's election chances if bin Laden released a video of himself tomorrow, still alive and kicking? There is no way Obama would go on TV like that and risk everything, unless he were pretty damn confident he were telling the tr...

Thoughts and prayers.

Your neutral tree may as well just be a bunch of packing for the column.. just my take on it..

ok here is updated sketch. I realized when I was looking at that condenser the cool input is on the opposite side so I switched the liebig to the other side. Which I actuall prefer because I want to orient the knob to the gate valve 45 degrees so it is easier to turn when this thing is 6-7 feet in ...

I gotta agree with everyone else.. sure does look cool.. until it's inside your still and you can't see it no more