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Hi Danespirite. Thanks for notice. :D I have checked it in the shop. Shall not contain lead, as far as it is for drink water plumbing. Do you have any other means how to check in mind? In the meantime I have progressed a bit. The build is completed, just the insulation is missing. I hope during the ...

Thanks Danespirit.
Yes, the design is a bit more complicated as some others, hopefully the operation will be easier.
The build si slowly progressing The heads are soldered to the column and the product vapor lock to the product head.

Hi Manu. Absolutely amazing design. The "Y" idea is also interesting. Unfortunately I started building my design idea before found this design. Otherwise I would do this one with "Y" and controlling the coolant ratio flow via 3-way valve, like in my build (see here: http://homedi...

Thanks Bushman. Winding the coils took me almost 3 days.
In the meantime the caps are soldered to the coils and the reflux and product heads are cut. I have collected the remaining parts of column. As a 3 way valve I will use a used faucet.

The two condenser coils ready side by side The next step will be to solder them to caps and cutting the housing for reflux and product condensers.

I have started the build with condensers. :D Decided for double wound coils for head condensers. I have had two 4,5 meter pipes from scrap yard, OD of 6,5 mm. Unfortunately, they were bent hardly, almost broken on several places. :roll: So first I annealed them on bent locations, straighten and clea...

Hi rz2222, You mentioned in the original post that you will be using a microcontroller once you get things working manually. That was exactly my approach, so I included the microcontroller along with the still build. It has been very handy to be able to put tasks to the microcontroller. My first us...

Prairiepiss wrote:Have fun building it. Let us know how it works for you.

Thanks I will post some photos from build. I hope I will find time to start the build after Christmass time. Also some experiences once running it.

Hi Prairiepiss. Thanks for your reply. Ok maybe I'm not wording things correctly. This still will not act like a normal cm design still. This still would act like a LM still controlled by cooling management. So adjusting the cooling will not give you the same effect as it would on a normal cm still....

Hi Prairiepiss. Thanks, I appreciate your support and review. Changing the coolant flow in either coil will do nothing. Why do you think so ? I assume the performance of a condenser (amount of generated condensate) is depending on the temperature and the flow rate of the coolant in the condenser. In...

Build it then. Just remember. Atmosphere vents should not I repeat should not have valves on them. So they can't ever possibly be shut off making a pressure bomb. And they should have a working condenser before them. That van knock down all vapors. If you can full that off with that design. Let US ...

Open issues: As far as I understand, the reflux heads should be open to atmosphere. There is one issue with my design. At the beginning the product head is not cooled so vapor would blow out of its atm. vent. The same could happen at low reflux ratio (low amount of coolant will flow through the ref...

My thoughts are is a bad design for a cm still. Just build the LM VM version and be done with it. Hi Prairiepiss. Could you please be more detailed ? Why do you think the design is bad ? Thanks for your feedback in advance. Actually I have already bought the copper pipes and other stuff to build it...

Hi Durace11. Thanks for your feedback. This build has been done with only 1 reflux condenser, search VM/LM combo still. It's a boka with a VM takeoff on the side. What you are planning sounds a lot like this: http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=28808#p6981716 Actually I have been...

Hi everybody. I am thinking of building a 2" reflux still, which would be capable to cut the heads like an LM still and easily manageable like a VM still. I would like to run it in high ABV mode as well as taking out also lower ABV flavored output, depending on the mash quality. First I would l...