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I use an aquarium heater to help with winter temps. Cheap and fairly reliable.

I use a small transfer pump with stainless cam lock fittings. Everything is mounted and plumbed in place. Just attach the hose and flip a switch.

You can make a flute or any other column with very few tools. Easy flange for all your connections, coils can be done by hand if you take your time. All the info is in here if you do the digging.

Great job!!

I put the first one 3" off the bottom and 4" apart if using multiple. My boilers are flat bottom and 3" gives me plenty of clearance when screwing the element in .

This time of year I tend to experiment with yeast that likes the cold. I have run ujssm in the past with bakers yeast using an aquarium heater to keep the temp warm and stable. Outside temp was in the 30's and still finished in a week.

Nice find. I would like to add a word of caution. A lathe is not forgiving at all and can cause serious trauma in an instant. As an engineer and tool and die maker of over 20 years I have seen it first hand. A friend of mine with over 30 years experience got his arm torn off at the elbow. It happene...

I tried it myself trying to feed my drag boat. Keep the still for drinking and just buy e-85

Lol. How did that happen??

What about a Router Speed Controller....? I believe they are just HD rheostats, not the preferred variac.However, because they are designed to regulates the speed of a router motor, probably up to 3 HP at say 10-15 amps, wouldn't that do just as well...? Easy to plug into wall, and plug heating ele...

You can make it remote and still portable. It doesn't have to be a big box

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Madshine wrote:Looks good. How do you seal the lid?

solder it.

I don't have a link but it's pretty easy to do. Here is the last one I did.

I have a really large boiler but my wash usually runs in the 6-7% range. Most with a 15gal boiler probably make more than I do.

11,000w on start up and 7000w for the rest of the run. I was just trying to push it hard and see what it could take

I bought a cheap 12v power supply and mounted it inside the box. I think it was $8 on eBay. I can't edit pics on my phone but you can see it right in the center. [img]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016120 ... dd3abf.jpg[/img]

I just finished up a 4" 8 plate and I get about 1 liter every 4 minutes running full tilt. Any faster and I can't knock down all the vapor without working on the condenser . I would think you should be able to run about the same.

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I have stopped using kegs and started using stainless crawfish pots. They are cheap enough and heavy duty .

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[img]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161128/aa6e78d780b6cc6f8550a0de0dd58d37.jpg[/img] Well I got some time off for the holidays and got it thrown together for a cleaning run. It takes a lot of power to keep it stable. Just a vinegar run so far but I'm getting this little column figured out. I do ...

raketemensch wrote:Nice, a little extra income is a beautiful thing.

i really haven't made very much money and if you count my time as labor I've lost money almost every time but I do get to try new things and experiment without having to spend much money and I enjoy the build process.

I sold the 6". I usually end up selling most of the ones I build and end up doing the first few runs at someone else's house.. Lol. This one was mostly built out of left overs from other builds. I only had to buy a few parts for this build most of which went to the controller and sight glasses.

copperlover1 wrote:Squeezins what holds the caps on? Thanks for the dimensions.

I solder everything in place . I braze the riser tubes and use stay brite #8 on the caps. There is 1000°f melt temp between the two so no chance of the tubes coming loose when you solder the caps

At some point you need to post about that controller...please... The controller is just another ssr controller like most others have built, more or less a knock off really. 2-40a SSR's to run a pair of 5500w elements on start up then drop one once up to temp. The pid controllers are for monitoring ...

Not overkill :D you' might need it. But, that tall of a 8 plate column, is going to have a lot of passive reflux, to keep the lower plates wet. that's kinda what I'm worried about. I have never built a 4" column this tall so I'm not sure how it's going to work. I've built a 6" 8 plate and...

Nice looking rig your building. :thumbup: Just a thought, your shotgun dephleg will be effiecent enough, your going to need a tiny needle valve for the cooling water. The dephleg is only 5" long. I didn't really think it would be overkill for this setup but I can throttle it back as much as ne...

Finally got all my parts gathered up for the controller and installed in the panel. I'll get it wired up and see how it runs.

Thanks guys for all the great info. Shadylane I read your rambling post last night awesome stuff I can't wait to see how your other plates do. Great pic squeezins. What does the downcomer and upcomers look like and do you have any dimensions. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160618/80b18046bfc4c19...