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Hey guys, new to the place, new to distilling. Been reading on here for a couple months now. Just built a turbo thumper style still. Posted about it as well. Looking forward to advice and knowledge. Thanks!

I built a turbo thumper, I used the same basic idea as the actual one. I enlarged my condenser because I had extra 1 1/2" pipe left over. But my first water run came out with a greenish tinge and smells like hose water. I poured in 8 gallons but only ran about a quart to half gallon as it was g...

So I built a still, based on the turbo thumper design. Everything seems to be nicely sealed and no leaks, but I ran some water through it and it came out but smells like hose water, it has a slight green tinge to it. I just wanted to run water through it and use a ppm meter to check it. This is my f...