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Dan,
Why did you decide to go from a 3 inch final condenser in your first builds to a 2 inch final condenser in this build? Also, where did you get your thermometers? Looks fantastic as usual.

I don't have a warm place to ferment. I'd love to give it a run but I've been informed by my boss that I can no longer practice my hobby in my house and my garage has no heat. As soon as the weather breaks a bit I'll get on it and let you all know how it runs.

Empty

I remember seeing that experiment. I wish I had remebered and considered it when when putting the DC's in. My bet is it won't matter though. I'll let you all know how it works out.

WV----
Well...then i'm quite glad the tree is removeable. Won't be too long and I'll give her a go and report back. Thanks for the complement on the work.

Yes..I've run the hillbilly flute more than a few times. As I have mentioned I've only been able to get about 150 to 160 proof out of it probably becuase I've put too much heat to it too fast. I haven't run it since learning that though. I've been too busy building. I'm almost finshed with this buil...

A bit of progress.

Have you figured out a price point yet?

That pretty nice! I had to use one stainless steel flange on the bottom of the column and I made an easy flange on top so I can still pull the tree out the top.

last time you built one for your brother; are you building 5 because you have additional siblings?

Exactly how many is a few? Although you have quite a bit cut, it looks like your still gonna be drilling your plates.

WV---Thanks for the help. Gooooo Mountaineeers!

Thanks for your reply's but my confusion only deepens. I tried to read a bit before responding to WV's comment that my flute/plated column is also a CM still. In this post by Prairiepiss http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=25732 he says CM stills are an inferior design. I thought...

Dad300---Now I'm really confused. Are you saying a perforated plate still is not a reflux still? It certainly causes reflux doesn't it? The columns I've been looking at are 4 inch , 4 plate stills that are 30 inches long not including the Deflag. Based on the "rule" my current build of a 6...

How does one determine proper column height for a particular diameter pipe? I've searched the forum and I came up with what was suggested as a rule of thumb. The rule of thumb was that height should be 12-20 times the diameter of the pipe. So for instance a 6 inch column should be 6-10 ft tall. Coup...

Googe--- How thick are your plates? I'm new at this and it never occurred to me to use shears to cut my plates. :oops: on Dans flute build his plates were 1/8 inch thick. I can't imagine he used shears on those. Your cut looks absolutely perfect :clap: I have a feeling if I did it my plates would ei...

Googe---

Is there a reason you chose bubble caps over sieve or valve plates?

AC---

I'm definitely going to do that, but I also want to learn something about the efficiency (if any) of my newly created Deflag and see if makes a difference when I throw my usual amount of heat at it. We'll see.

Googe--- From plate to plate the Deflag is 6 inches. The pipe it's stuffed into is eight. I made it 2 inches larger than the one on my hillbilly flute and i also changed the shotgun design to see if I could make it more efficient. Clearly I have been running my HF too hot, but I'm going to put this ...

Plate tree on special plate tree hanger that was removed from the house and relocated to the garage by my wife.

As you can see I have a couple of stainless steel ferrules waiting to become part of a dephlagemater. I've never done an easy flange and I thought the stainless would be easier. I think I was wrong.

Sight glass dry fit.

Condenser guts.

Fluxed up.

The makings of my Deflag.

Dan,

My down comers are 3/4. I will knock it down to 5 plates. It wont be too much trouble to make the change.

I just got a little hung up on the number of plates. Sort of a more is better kind of thing. I guess not.
Thanks for the input.

Empty---
Rather not walk that road if I don't have to.

Do you think my 6 plate plus 24 inches of lava rock would do the trick then for a quality neutral?

Empty-----

If I attach my 4 plate to my 6 plate will that be enough to produce a proper neutral? If so, I will permanently affix the plates in my six plate.

You all have given me a lot to think about. One modification I am going to make is to make the plate tree removable so I can reduce the number of plates if I want to. From all your comments it seems that I probably don't need a packing section for my 6 plate and probably not my 4 plate either so I'l...

Googe---

Now that sounds nice!

Prairiepiss----

Here is what I got dun

Deflag is 99% done
Column has sight glasses soldered but holes not drilled yet
Plate tree done
Condenser 70% done
Parrot not started