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Surprised you have copper penny's. We don't as the copper was worth more than a penny, and do you really have penny's in a language that has no pense. This forum sucks big when it comes too 'use the search' comments. I'm sure if this hobby was perfectly legal, peeps would hound newbies for their loc...

Do you think you could stand that on the table and melt glass in? The real question being one of expansion rates and copper elasticity.

You need to make sure the return pipe makes a constant fall. If you have a dip with fluid in then that would explain why you can't get a syphon going. Your pump don't have the guts to push that dribble out, because the air it needs to push it through with is too elastic. Good call on going 12v. I'm ...

Forget the capacity of your pump, they are all up to capacity. You need to look at the head. That is how well it can shove water through things.

I will pop back later... I shouldn't be here

Well the glass is easy but you can't use the lids anyway unless you put a new lining in. I use ptfe sheet to make mine.

Anti cake elements are often inconel.

First time I have seen the wire. I expected much tighter coiling. It hardly looks bothering with ( I didn't )

When I used distilled water to make some all-bran and another sugar wash, both failed. It wasn't because I tried to rehydrate the dried yeast with it, as I dry pitch. It was lack of nutrients or ph buffering. I dunno.. I had no ph strips.

Some recipe's are tuned to expect food from the tap water.

When it says lead free, it isn't. It is just below the allowable threshold. This threshold varies globally, and even state to state. Calli demands the least.

I would silver solder over it. Pickling is hit and miss and can do more harm than good. As seen from samples sent in by HD members.

Well I got through half hour of it. I couldn't take any more though. I thought it was going to be a science show, but it was nothing of the sort. They couldn't even read the results properly. Must be the third time I have tried to watch one of them shows. So much promise, but the show don't deliver.

If the shotgun tubes stuck out the bottom half inch, they could be slash cut to guide the condense to the packing. I fear much of the condense from the outer jacket may just slip down the column wall doing more harm to your packing temperature gradient than it aids fractioning. Of course, you would ...

It really depends on who's nose we are talking about. Some people drink strong tasting stuff like whiskey while having a smoke and frankly can't smell a thing. Others don't smoke and have a full set of taste buds (only 15% of men) and can smell perfectly well. I can smell a small sugar wash indoors ...

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Hello Pal. I have seen some terrible SS exhausts that rusted at the welds in just a couple of years. It is doubtful some is even from the 300 series. Nobody is asking, they are just buying a stainless steel exhaust. It could be anything. If it is listed as 314 I would hope it is though. So it has th...

I realise it is traditional here to just tell people to look elsewhere. The fact the post linked too is doing the same thing comes as no surprise. This is useless though when people try to search out past threads. They just gets threads pointing to threads pointing to threads with the same 'look har...

OK. One vote that the Lava Rock could contain toxins that will contaminate the poisonous ethanol we are making to ingest. Point well taken. You will not be using it. I was hoping to keep the thread guided towards info on sizing and results from different still types so that those of us still intere...

How do I proof apple pie moonshine? Doesnt the sugar throw off the hydrometer? You know the proof from what you put in it. For instance, you might put in 300ml of 60% and 300ml of 5% cider with 300ml of apple juice. Then add 175g of sugar and end up with 1000ml of apple pie. About a third of this i...

My Kellog's All Bran washes seem slow compered to the Sweetfeed washes I just did. Here is what I have brewing...... 50L wash 1 large box Kellog's All Bran, cooked x 30 minutes. 15Kg or so of sugar, inverted. 3 tsp 20-20-20 fert. 1 tsp White Labs Yeast Nutrient 5 tablespoons Instaferm bakers yeast....

I hear it won't work quite often, but some pretty simple physics says it will. You can get a much more controllable temperature gradient and the stuffing is more hoops the water vapour must interact with before it can get out. Giving a greater volume of water recondensed and sent back. This is not c...

I have concerns. I have read of people boiling it in water to clean it enough for ethanol production, which seems inadequate to me. Then there was talk about the orange coloured stuff that is laden with potassium, a reactive metal not on the list. Here is the black stuff that carries many metals wit...

I keep searching, but the word 'exhaust' is not providing answers. Car exhausts I mean. Cheapest source for ss pipe and clamps. 314 but seems to be s314 not 314L which as yet I have not figured out. Lots stocked locally and assembled for good prices. Just pop to the tyre and exhaust center. But s314...

I'm thinking of a glass column. No different in price to copper. I can use a 2" tank connector from the boiler. It will take a mesh then the tube. Fill tube with whatever. At the top of the tube switch back to metal for the take off and condenser. Then you get to see the separation right the wa...

Yeah, get it done quick with a torch. As your both aware (but I will say it for others) longer heating times means more extensive heating of the surrounding area, and long term heating pushes the chromium out, meaning your joint will rust. Speed is key to preserving the stainless qualities.

Oh I do apolagise. I have sat ages trying to figure this out. My eyesight is going, and this is the point where I need to start wearing glasses all the time, or mistakes are going to happen. This is my first.. oh bloody life changer. Sorry. It's so ducked up. I thought the flange was the other side ...

Pot Still Flange and Lid-1.jpg Having looked at this pic, I have read all about your efforts to get it right. I don't think you have though. Did you really tin the stainless? It looks like I could get my finger nail in the gap. This joint is critical. I might risk it covered in flour paste using el...

One gripe I have is the size of it. It makes a bottle at a time. As I'm new I want to drink it, so where is my one to save. I can't possibly do another strip and spirit run of the same thing. There are just to many other recipe's I must try right away. Then there is my need to share my new hobby wit...

Well if your going to pop in a glass, that is a nice access hole to improve the plates. By which I mean address the drainage. That bottom plate wants to drip in the packing, but the drawings I see are not doing it right. You could actually fit a pipe near the top edge of the plate to take the fluid ...

Friendly that is a good price. McMaster here in the states you will pay through the nose for that. I have lots of jars too. What I'm talking about on the lids is they are 2 piece for canning, like vegetables, jellies, what have you. They are called Ball jars here. Oh I see :) I thought the op had c...

sambedded wrote:Sugar wash produse very small amount of methanol. You will be absolutely safe from that side. But heads contains other unplesant things so if you drink tomuch you will have more unpleasant hangover.

Yes, wood alcohol is not really present in a sugar wash.

Oh very good. I like that a lot. Humbledore, I would like to hear your description of the lids again. Ring? metal piece? I have no idea. Jars I see are just normal jars with plasticised lids we can't use. Have a look at my solution: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PTFE-SHEET-0-25MMTHK-A4-SHEET-SIZE-/23068...