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Wired the element up yesterday, cleaning runs/leak testing this afternoon!

Yeah I'm a bit more active on another forum, just thought I'd drop a pic in here. Been running a 3" pot still for a few years, finally got the new still sorted.

Cheers for the kind words

Pretty soon I'll be doing my first run with my new 4" 4 plate bubbler can't wait! I put down 50L of cornflakes whiskey this afternoon. Got a heap of old feints for the sac run, hopefully this coming weekend.

You COULD do that, or you could pay $3 for a tin of baker's yeast every now and then?

You're welcome, guys.

He's not everyone's cup of tea, but name me a (good) stand up comedian that doesn't touch controversial topics?

His TV show, 'Legit' is worth a look

I guess that's the difference; in the US, talk about guns is considered political. Here in Straya it's just talk about guns...

Most people who break into your house just want your TV! How many enemies do you have if you think people are coming into your house to murder your family?

Thanks to the guys willing to put forward some actual discussion :clap: Crow, you are right, I'm not old enough to have had my guns taken away, but my dad and uncle were, and they lost priceless family heirlooms that should never have been up for grabs. You are also right in that guns are tools and ...

So you watched and enjoyed it, plaincrazy? Good stuff

As Jim says, I'm all for you guys having guns, but to think your argument is anything but; 'fuck off! I like guns!' is ridiculous

I can tell you that if you made it less than a minute, you have absolutely no idea what he goes on to say.

Sorry guys! I thought a few, like Loki, might be able to see the funny side and take the piss out of themselves a bit.

But then I'm guessing that not many actually watched more than 3 or 4 minutes of it...

Not trying to stir anything!

I think pfshine got offended and swung the hammer before the nail was even in place.

I own and shoot guns regularly, controlling kangaroos, foxes and rabbits on the farm...

Well you guys are the only audience of mainly Americans that I've got, so I thought I'd share this and see what you think...

I'm yet to hear an opinion from this bloke that I don't wholeheartedly agree with, but I feel some of you may not!

Threads like this make me glad to be an Australian!

6", 4 bubblecap plate, semi-modular all-copper bubbler on an 80L boiler. With a 3" Carter head hanging off the top of it.

Wait; I'm already building that!

Yuuuuuuck... Dunder in rum and redgum in whiskey? No good.

Welcome PJ, I'm sure you'll find all the info and guys with the same attitude here

40kg of sugar? A kilo of yeast? That's gunna make a whoooooooole lot of barely consumable spirit!

I am looking for the best possible way to get the highest yeild cheep"

I assume you're making alcohol for fuel then? Not to drink, obviously...

I personally keep the hearts of my gen 1 'sweet' strip and drink them... Toss the heads and throw the tails in with the low wines from gen 2 - 5 or whatever. I love the taste of both the sweet mash whiskey and the sour mash, so I keep the sweet mash seperate. Make sense?

Product coming off the still at 40% will have a nicer flavour than that at 60%, if you like the taste of wet dog and feet :wtf: My pot, running an 8% CFW or similar starts producing at about 70% on a strip run, and about 85% on a spirit run of 40% low wines. What I call the hearts of the spirit run ...

Not sure what you mean when you say you don't want to have to water your spirit down?

There'll be pics tonight BB!

Thanks for the kind words guys. Just trying to show that with a bit of luck, some basic tools and a few hours, anyone can build one of these stills

Got 5 of my caps done, and one of my caps 3/4 done... Hopefully tomorrow I can have another play and get the rest of them soldered up, and then I can start cutting the slots...

That looks the goods, googe!

I'm not going to cover up my screws though, I'll just polish up the copper ring and pick out some nice shiny stainless screws

Yeah, I'll hard solder the flange to the SG body, then soft solder the SG body to the column... The rings that I cut today will sit on the outside... It'll go; [COPPER RING] [SILICONE GASKET] [BORO SIGHTGLASS] [GASKET] [FLANGE] Make sense? They'll be screwed together with stainless screws, not held ...

A small update; Spent an hour or so in the shed this arvo, tidying up the my caps and cutting some sheet for the caps, and the sightglasses... Made this little jig up to cut ~50mm ends for my bubblecaps... the center drill bit in the holesaw is snapped, which lets me cut complete circles out :D http...

Alriiight, pics; Started with this lump of pipe I found out the farm a while ago... Pretty heavy walled, and nice and bashed up as you can see... http://imageshack.com/a/img36/2558/1r4r.jpg it's close enough to 1.5"... a bit hard to tell because most of it is a tad beaten up. http://imageshack....

Sightglasses are 3"...

Cut my caps, downcomers and risers today. Gunna go 3x 2" caps, just not enough room for 4...

I'll get some pics up soon.

:wtf: of course! If I cut 20mm high bands of 6" pipe, take 1mm out of them with a grinder and solder them back together, it should fit snugly on the inside of the pipe... Solder these bands onto the top of the plate and I should be sweet! Obviously I'll still need a couple of laps of thread tap...