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Im not daft I just don't picture things from 3D to flat in my mind, often bend z shapes instead of u shapes in steel etc I got the cone and cut it out it's great now how do you extend a cone out straight ? Like to add a sleeve on the end of it Just a half inch or so do you come off it straight of fo...

If this works with the tig I'm gonna make old dogs copper still maybe, no soldering just copper to copper joints priced up the copper sheet it's £174 for 8ft x 4ft .7 mm thick

Ok cool so I take it a 2" tube into a 3" stopend would be real bad lol Pm'd you bushman Anyone know the size of Mini's vm main tube? I'm gonna try to tig weld the 3" to the reducer save buying another 3" straight just got an all singing all dancing machine in work lol I'll use of...

Hmmm looking at 'new moonshiners' Lm/vm combo column
Looks good

Or a 3" flute? Hmmm

How bad would it be to just add 2" copper to a 3" end cap instead of buying a reducer would it do really bad things? Like a dead stop? Much cheaper! I've got most of my stuff for a 3"column now Can cut a piece of my 9'9" 3" copper down to like 24" length of 3" down...

Came across this on ebay here is the video for it not cheap but it would be amazing for flutes lol
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Not sure if it's been shared before

Love this !! I'm in awe of your building skills, I am looking at this and thinking I'll try to build a similar piece, I just got given an old wood lathe which may help with the polishing and have just picked up a drill press, 3" copper pipe is £18 for a meter or3'3" 4" may be within r...

I understand he no longer stills but his manner and knowledge are sorely missed

Pwd do you know if he still gas pics or information so I can make one ?
I also want to use a bit of 3" for a fast stripping still
Lie bigs are no problem I've plenty of inch three quarters sat doing nothing

Ok so I have now got 9'9" of 3" copper, 3"x3"x3" tee 2 x 3 inch to 2 inch reducers 2"90 degree bends, I have 8ft of 2" spare, a 100 litre keg for boiler with 2" flange I have 15 ft of 1"3/4 too Just need to get an overview and rough sizes I will be making...

Love love love this !!! If you decide to export to the uk just let me know as I desperately want a bottle

Ok no stress

I'm followin this for obvious reasons I hope this isn't treading on your toes if it is requested I'll get it moved :-) my plan was to make good neutral and I also have a simple pot still for stripping and rum and the bokakob is sitting unused. I've been quoted £15 a mtr plus 20% for 3" tube her...

I agree that I'm either insensitive or overwhelmed, my favourite thing is corn straight off the still which tastes corny and sweet or all grain heavy pleated single malt but other than the smoke I can barely make out much else out I know I like it though. I have put sweetfeed through and no matter w...

I rarely drink it to be honest but I don't ever cut it with water so it's a little perky, I find all I can taste after cutting is the water and it ruins it for me. Probably doing it wrong I do take a few straight from the still and that is my favourite thing but I find that lovely sweetness goes too...

Sounds like a good plan, BoisBlancBoy...!!! :thumbup: The purpose of extending the take off branch as far as possible it to keep the split ratio more equal... We had the discussion, and some experiments were done, some years ago when VM's were becoming the rage for neutral spirits... Older designs ...

Thankyou I did think it funny that the pictures were deleted I just want a simple to build, simple to operate relatively quick column, I'm gonna be using a 100litre 22 uk. gal sanke for a truly neutral spirit to play with flavours and I'd like to have a go at a nice gin possibly using a gin basket i...

I take it it'll be fine to make it from ss as I've got a great offer of some 3" ss tube in 6ft length

Yeah I see what you saying, honestly I feel the need to build another and all of minime pics disappeared in his threads so I cannot see them, I am a member on artisan I'll see if he stil has them (pun) It's not necessarily that I don't get on with the bok but I wanna try the one he used like simple ...

Hi guys I've been a long time member but don't speak much, I've been quietly making single malt scotch, corn whisky, rumsky, and hotdamn, now over this time I've been learning what I like and what I like to taste and I'm now ready to move from potstilling to a neutral making vm like minime used to c...

Deer hunter I bought one of those copper flanges cost me £23 delivered to the uk but the stainless are 4.70 for 2 delivered

Bear river I take it I just need a dc tig for that? Does it need more than 180 amps cost of the coppers conductivity, which tips you use?

Odin the fawcetts heavy peated is the same stuff the Islay malts use its as strong as you get!!
Send me your address by pm and I'll send you some of mine over!!

Dan I got mine from the malt miller it's is really peaty (+36 phenol) but I have found it gets peatier by the day ageing !!
25kg crushed was £44plus delivery next day pretty much and he crushes it for you (bairds will not)

Hi aces I did an all malt for my first attempt with no adjunct and I just went with that it turned out nice (not a lot though from 6 gallons wash) just under a qt with heads hearts and tails! I just got 3 qty 25 gallon fermenters ( they brought hot mango chutney to the uk from India lol im thinking ...

Aces wired this is a true Islay style whisky it's smoky and peaty and Oaked I used a speed oak process (1qt jar 1/3 filled with bourbon oak chips) gave it 2 days was well overoaked put a cap of sherry in it and bottled it into an old glass brandy bottle left it a week and had a taste it is truly lov...

Looks like a non-altered keg. Is that a standard gasket for a tri-clamp? The gasket has a elevated ring on each side of the gasket to fit inside the groove on each side of the tri-clamp connection. The keg doesn't have that groove and the gasket will need to have the elevated ring removed. I've fou...

Ok ran it slowly on the aparatus and produced a lovely smokey smelling spirit although very little of it just less than a litre all told heads tails hearts all in started at 55% and dropped down to 35% very quickly emptied backset into fermenter and added 4 bags of sugar to start the sugar head off!

Use an immersion boss and then blank that it's 2.1/4 " I'd try an old school plumbers merchant