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Yep. Same with mine - easy to bypass the thermostat. Reckon I should give this a go before spending out on more gear. If it's a fail I know what I need to buy anyway ... Thanks a million Pikey mate

Right Pikey nice one mate i'll bust mine apart now and have a look!

hey mate a couple of thoughts you have a 55 in 2" reflux build, but you have about the same amount of 3" available to you ( leftover + condenser). I'd use the 3" to make a packed section and make a 2" condenser for it, it' will increase your takeoff speed compared to a 2" c...

Shine0n wrote:just replace the rubber gasket with a ptfe gasket and should be good to go.

Any problems with wrapping it with ptfe tape instead?

Na the bloody boss is right at the bottom. However ... I could just use the immersion heater element to plug the hole. Could even cut / unscrew the actual element no problem. Before I go ahead and buy that other element, I'm now without welding equipment so would this do the job?? Look at this on eB...

I can use the immersion heater to help get up to temp quickly

So how about this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01DXG ... ref=plSrch

Yup. Sure I'll figure it out tho.

Damn.

Well I'm stuck with an immersion heater element as I've welded a boss into the keg already to take one, and they look like they only go up to 3kw. Guess I'll have to look for a 3kw without a thermostat ...

Ah thanks for the reply mate. Just to clarify ... Are you saying the 3k element I already have is adequate but that it will just take a while to heat up? Seems a shame to waste it. It also says on it that it has a thermostat fitted - it will switch off at 65-70 degrees. Is it possible to disconnect/...

Hello fellas. I need some help here with my still if anyone can give me some advice that would be great. The still is a reflux design with the condenser at a 45 degree angle. The column is 2 inch copper, 55 inches long. I went a bit overboard on the condenser- it's a 24 inch long double helix with a...

Ok so I built the original 45 degree slant design but without a reservoir. I'm just waiting on some fittings for the needle valve. In terms of the take off pipe, do you guys leave it in situ or do you remove it somehow when you remove the column from the keg?? I wish I'd been a bit more sensible wit...

Sussed it out - drilled hole, ground down the outer edge of the pipe so it was slightly cone shaped and soldered in - no problem - practiced on some scrap beforehand

Thanks for the advice fellas. My condenser housing is 3 inches as opposed to the 2 inch column. So I have a reducer and this has a very, very slight reservoir when it's at a 45 degree angle so is perfect to put my take off pipe in there. I've soldered up my coil no problem but I cheated and used fit...

DavidR thanks for posting mate - that would be much easier than putting a damn in. Plus, I've been thinking lately I'd be much happier hanging my condenser vertically in it's housing than trying to centre it in a 45 degree angle housing with copper scrubbies. Just to be clear, are you saying you lit...

Brilliant. Nice one.

Any issue with the coil being too long? I've wound a 24 inch double with cold finger - airflow seems good - haven't got the fittings yet for water but can't see flow being an issue...

That's great - i have a cap I'll solder it into - hoping it will stay centred. Thanks again for your help

Regards my coil, how snugly does it have to fit in the housing? I've measured it at just over 2.5 inches and my housing is 3 inches. Do i need to wind it bigger / smaller or can I roll with it?

Makes perfect sense mate - thanks for the explanation - it basically needs to be small enough to not mix the nasties with the goodies... My column is 55 inches by the way and the condenser housing is 3 inches with the double wound coil fitting snugly at roughly 8 inches long. Dug everything out toda...

If anyone has built one of these I'm wondering how big the damn should be? For a LM reflux head, if you can get to an ounce of liquid holdup, or less...great! Typically, the less liquid holdup the less smearing you'll get. In your design, how large is the ID of the column and condenser section? Tha...

If anyone has built one of these I'm wondering how big the damn should be?

Hopefully this will work:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9qoi1 ... p=drivesdk

My apologies all but I've managed to find it in my old email account :thumbup: Pikey it's very different to yours mate - the condenser housing, which is attached to the column at an upward 45 degree angle, has a small dam built into it with a return pipe high up the wall leading back into the column...

Hi thanks for the reply. The problem with the search engine is that there are hundreds of posts where people mention 45 degree slant plates and this makes finding plans for a 45 degree slant / offset still quite hard to find, hence me starting a thread. Is no problem really I can build a straight fo...

Hello everyone. I was last here back in 2012 and was in touch via pm with another member who sent me some plans for a 45 degree offset reflux still - the condenser was off the top of the column at an angle. I bought most of the parts I needed but never got to build it as I had a marriage breakdown a...

Yeah that's the exact same one i have on my watch list - like i say our components are mostly the same by the sounds of things. Keep me up to date on your controller - maybe look into the amps on that one.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a more detailed description of Rhodent's coil - i can't seem to find it anywhere...

I'm building a different column design but using more or less the same components and facing the same predicament with the power controller. I'm going to buy a keg and start that part of the build next week so am interested in which way you go with it. The controller YHB pointed out looks good but w...

How much did you get taxed? Im using copper but there must be someone somewhere in the UK doing these bits...