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hi boda getta

no gasket its a SS pressure cooker and i just tig welded it strait onto the keg just being curious but why would an aluminium pot be no good apart from the fact that i dont think it would weld to the keg lol

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ref ncmoonlight thank you for asking mate i am having a ball been in my shed (wife calls it the bat cave)for the best part of a week lol trying this trying that the biggest problem i had was controlling the heat but thanks to another forum member nicod3mus he pointed me in the direction of this ebay...

another question guys
im in the middle of a run right now and my temp gauge is reading 74 degrees i have taken 1.5 litres of 94% i belie ethanol boils of at 78.4 is my temp gauge faulty or is this normal i have thrown away the first 200mil which came out cause it stunk like hell lol

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one more thing bushman what other ways are there of cooling apart from the external column and the condenser

thank you bushman when running my still i can usaly get the temp to sit around the 79 degrees with a little adjustment to power and reflux water rate and collect just under 1 litre per hour of 90% i can usually get 2 litres of 90 then the purity drops quite quick and the temp rises is this standard ...

Hi Guys and Gals i joined this forum around one month ago and due to my over keenness to get up and going i jumped straight in with question after question in the new distillers section, you guys where great very patient and very helpful which i am eternally grateful for. In my haste to get up and r...

cheers n1cod3mus

just bought a coule of these myself

i have decided not to use my wine just know as i realised that my reflux still will strip all the flavours out so as of this weekend i intend to start building a pot still any good plans for a pot still would be appreciated guys.

god this hobby is turning out to be addictive

one more thing

will i still have heads and tails so to speak

Hi guys thanks once again for the advice i am starting to feel really bad about running this stuff through my still as i have been told it is really good quality, i sort of inherited it along with a load of wine making equipment a friend of my mothers husband passed away around 6 months ago, he was ...

Right guys you helped me tremendously with my last problem so heres my next question i have managed to lay my hands on 20 demijohns full of various flavours of home made wine, as im not a wine drinker i was wondering if i can run this through my still and if so is there anything i need to do to it f...

Cheers YHB this might very well do the job Bigwilly i use a standard 3KW immersion heater bought for £14 if you go to ebay and type in the following Stainless Steel 316L Immersion Heater Element Flange, Backing Nut, Bio Fuel this is what i welded to the keg the standard uk immersion heater just scre...

thank you very much with your advice so far i see what you are saying ErnieV but this means i will be running my still at full power constantly so to speak and i also understand the theory behind controlling the temp what i am hoping to do is like someone said before its like putting on the potatoes...

hi Guys please go easy on me here as i know you have probably answered this question over and over again i have read many of your articles on Phase angle controllers and triac controllers and how to build them but believe me electrics are way over my head so here goes. i want to know if there is a s...