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Thank You very much, I will try to get the bottom off and clean the lead solder up, I like the Idea of rolling copper for a stack, This is gonna take me a while as I stopped dead in my tracks when I found this site. Hopefully by spring I can get this pot functional. So I get some copper, roll it, cl...

very nice.

How about this, this thing has a totally flat bottom on it, How about if I cut a large eneough area out of the bottom, then I will have easy acess to the complete inside of this pot to re-solder the whole thing.? That seems much easier to fix, (for someone thats never worked with metal)

I dont know how hard it is to take a pot apart, But if I can get the bottom off, Then I can Easily adress the interior. If ref to liberty's post..... what size should the 24" upright be? diameter? I have a brass nipple coming off the top of the lid, I checked everywhere and cannot match the tre...

Got it. I will re-solder from the inside, handles are not rivited, they are surface soldered, I had also planned on drilling that 3/8" hole out to as close to 1/2" as I can without losing the nipple.

OK, here we go, I found this pot in the attic of my wife's house when I moved in with her 20 years ago, I would like to turn this into a functioning pot still, I made a worm and feeder line into it out of 1/4"(then took it all apart when I read 1/4" to small). also was told that the screw ...

What about that 1/8" copper tubing???? I'm new here also, and was recently informed that 3/8" in minimum...

no idea what that means, and no i did not. I'll google it!

I wish I found this site a month ago!!!!!

Thanks, So first i test for lead, If I pass that test then I'll have to drill out the 1/4" nipple (my still cap is brass) maybe I can drill the brass to accept a pc. of 1/2" copper and solder that pc. of pipe right into the brass cap. does that sound ok?

another question, on top of my still there is a fitting for a 1/4" copper compressopn fitting, can I neck that up to a 1/2" or do I have to have a full 1/2" coming through the top of the still?

can you suggest how to test the solder on this still I have? will a lead paint test kit work?

Just found this forum, what is the parent site?

I found an old still in my attic, scrubbed and cleaned it, I made the worm, I used 1/4" soft copper, ............. from browsing here I get the feeling that 1/4" may not be large enough

My question is will it work?