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at a second ook,maybe that siteisnt a half bad idea... maybe ill have to look a lil further into it! On a side note, any idea where one might find a stainless steel barrel for a resonable price? I'd like to be able to make bigger batches of beer as well. no point playin with it.. lol id only have to...

Get yourself a keg, if you can't find one at the junk yard you ca buy one here for decent price. http://www.lawsonkegs.com/index.php?route=common/home the whole shipping thing n buying things online is quite troublesome... last time i tried buying something across the border it was 15$ by the time ...

wow.. I was such a goof back then lol. Had several good runs under my belt. still the same lil 20L boka. Now however im slowly gearing up for a pot still. I just wana be done runnin it faster, less time standin there. and even makin neutrals, I end up mixin it anyways, so who cares if its less poten...

so basically it goes back to the point where it would only be usefull for an aesthetic use, I cant think of the word for it, (guilding??) but putting pretty patterns of say copper on stainless, or like knickle on the outside of the copper??? meh.. Oooo.. after watching a vid of a guy copper plating ...

copper plating is not solid..dont know how to explain but its sort of particles stuck together. sorta like dusted on, particles stuck to it? hmm.. i know runnin too high current will cause it to turn out all flakey and stuff... but most plateing is sorta like wrapping it in a foil coating of water ...

Use the Google search tool. You will find there was a thread about this. About a year ago. I think. Here first hit with a Google search. http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=21588 hmm.. why do i never think to use google when searching HD?? Altho as it is, it was kinda a 50/50 sp...

Well, tried searching for electrolysis, no results. tried searching for copper plating, and copper gets ignored.. so, enter new topic here. I recently have been doing some electrolysis projects. In my research, I stumbled across copper plating. :idea: this is a fairly simple proccess, on a school sc...

^^ x2 my god! remind me to never drink someone elses shine, and in the same sense to never be offended by someone thta wont drink mine if they havent seen my setup, because from now on, I dont think I`d drink from someone elses unless I seen theirs. Who knows, maybe they got their design from some c...

Puzzling this out.. some say no, (Heck even my sig says NO TO PLASTICS! but then I go and find this...

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First thing, before I get flammed on this, I a quick background. I never looked into the stuff as being safe. As far as i always knew, copper, stainless, (and ptfe and certain corks for gaskets) and the use of lead free silver solder, were the ONLY things known, proven, and considered safe. Those we...

Im stayin at my cousins, goin to school for a couple mnths. He got a cheap wood smoker from crap tire awhile back. it works pretty good, kinda small tho.. i mean seriously, i live off beef jerky/pepperoni n smoked meats.. I need mass production.. well almost. But he makes some dang good snacks outta...

wow..! cool! stupid, but cool on the inovation side of things. forgive me if I shy away from ever drinkin any of his product. It was nice to see a general idea of how to go about producing a malt tho. never have figured that part out..

So, over the last lil while, I've had several runs under my belt. I always tried to "Make cuts" separating into separate containors about every so bit, (roughly about evey 100mls.) I could tell the differance between heads n tails, but could never realy find a clear cut sense of presance o...

that things pretty cool! I'd like to see of vid of that thing all togther and running... I give up on the ole coil condensor in the head. I wont be playing around with trying to make one of those ever again, so Im looking for ideas on which way to go... I do have a very interesting idea to try, kind...

I was lead to belive that carbon filtering was used to remove the last little bit of water in nearly pure spirits, (primarily for using as fuel to be mixed with gas, as you dont want water in it when mixing, but fine for running straight at around 95% kinda thing) and to remove the last little bit o...

Welcome to the site! Glad you found the right place for such a hobby, and sounds like you're already well on your way!

Pics of your still? What kind did ya build?
its always nice to see what others built and what they came up with in the end!

~L~

while starring crosseyed

Guy walks into a third storey bar sits down and orders a drink. After a minute the guy two seats over looks at em n says, "You know, this is a very special bar!" "Oh realy?" querries the newcomer. "How so?" "Well its got a magic window!" "What? A magic wi...

gripping it firmly

i just call mine "The Still" or more commonly, Boka, cuz its a boka.. lol the new one im working on is gona be called Bunyon, like Paul bunyon, cuz its gona be much bigger than my lil stock pot, or maybe just "Babe" the name of his blue ox, big, stubbourn and snortin out steam th...

StillsNMash, Im glad to see you're rebuilding your still! Dont be discouraged. Theres alot of emotion ebbing and flowing like vapours through this thread. To be honest, I only found it by chance, as i was researching stainless steel grades. Im looking to build me a new and better, and was Googling w...

Thanks MK, thats exactly what i thought everyone was sayin, just wanted to be sure.. :D Just spent a few hours with the calculators and became very familiar with em, and think i have a pretty clear and solid idea of what i need for sizes and power inputs etc etc. looks like I'll be assembling a new ...

with the deals you find, I'd be looking for the biggest sheet of stainless steel, wrap it around to make a boiler.. think REALY big! lol But once again, thats getting far from the hobbiest size. I was thiking something like using that as a wrap around something like a 3 or 4" column, then fill ...

I have an exhaust hood over my stove.. its attached up above it.. i still have like 34 or 38 inch colum (Packing, condensor etc included) but not including the 10-12 inch tall boiler. theres still room for me to hold my breath and stick my hed up there for quick peek into it.. lol.. the trick i foun...

Very nice! Your thread answered many questions I was trying to find the answers too, such as height for a 3"column :D (try and do a search with 3" or 3inch and it gives you nothing as its too short of word.. lol) so have you got to do a cleaning run yet at least? Im very interested in hear...

Okay, having read all the threads on various controllers and fabicration, buying and modifying, I think I have finaly decide to make the switch for several reasons. At any rate, one thing that was not 100% clear, for adding an extra element for the initial warm up theres no need for any heating cont...

so do you guys just litteraly put a heat sink on the router controller, then wire it straight to the element?
Im trying to get a hold of a variac, but I was looking at the router route till i can track one down..

well, i dont know what was up.. maybe there was an air leak around the airlock, or maybe cuz i shook the heck outta it yesterday, but shes back to burping away like any other normal wash!

~L~

is it possible for a wash to go backwards kinda thing?? last sunday I ran off a batch, and then went to the store and got some supplies and started 3 more batches of gerber, (It was on sale, 2 boxes for 6$ lol) as it is, i used my original pail, and 2 new "Carboys" which are 19.8L water ju...

well, i got into making cheap simple jug/hobo wines awhile back... lol the gist of it is the recipe is quick simple n dirty.. YOU know the one! very easy and drinkable! 3-3.5cups sugar, 2 cans juice concentrate, some yeast, top up with water, let her buck till finished!!! lol only takes about a mnth...