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Ozone I was running my still,if I hadn't made a plea they probabley would had it tested.

Thanks guys for all the support. I'll try to answer some of you alls ?'s Hate to type.I did hire a laywer $2000.00 The best in these parts. They can come in with out a warrant .probable cause. One officer stayed One went for the warrant,then comes the possy. Or thats the law here,I don't really know...

Ok guys now I was took to the station booked,charged with a feloney(MANUFACTURING DISTILLED SPIRITS WITH OUT A LICENSE. CARRYS 1 TO 5 IN THE PEN.)The cop said they were not calling in the feds or it would be bad,so the locals handled it THANK GOD. The judge that arraigned me was my best friends 1st ...

Sorry I could not finish my story,But here it is. How I got busted was my brother,my son worked for him.Someone stole a aircompresser out of his basement,he new who got it. He new I made hootch,Butt instead of calling me ahead of time And telling me he was calling the law he didn't. The police was a...

Last june I was in my shed had my still going full blast having fun when I turned around there stood two cops watching me. I about fell out.In a few minutes it looked like they had a mass muderer cornerd there were cops, d.e.a. agents every where. I Went to jail,and they took every thing in my shed....

thanks guys I'm getting ready to charge the boiler now.

I made my v.m. column.It has a 10'long double coil from 1/4 i.s.dia.tubing.slated plates,the over all length is 45"highx2"dia. Made a water run in it and the condensed water was very hot coming out the collection tube,but it was all liquid no vapors. The themp was steady at 206f.I know tha...

Thanks guys

I use propane to heat.Think i'll go for the double coil for more surface area.
Can't wait to get her going.

I am building a v.m.column,should I make a double coil from 1/4 o.d or a single coil from 1/4 i.s.dia.
I have every thing done except the coil.45"hx2"dia. with the double plates on a 15gall.keg.packed with copper mesh.
Witch would be the best?
Thanks for the imput and have a great day.

Thanks Hawk for such a fast reply.I would have cried if I had to dump it.I'll get two pumps so in the future I won't have to stop

I started my still up awhile ago and just as the foreshots started to run ,my pump stoped working.
So I shut it down.It was a 10.gall. sugar wash.To late to nite to get another pump.Will it be ok to run it tomorrow.
Thanks for feed back and have a great day.

I hope your in the tropics or have heat in your shed.I use a 55 gallon tank unless I keep a fire going it will freeze in the winter.
have a great day gents.

I think its a great sticky.A lot of new people are all the time asking what to use for boilers.I have 4 kegs.My best friend owns a bar.I never knew there was so many types.
thanks for the info
Have a great day

I cut the rest of my run last nite,just went and checked on it all clear as water.I keep my jars very clean,unless I did not rinse one good, that would not been the problem being dirt causing the cloudyness in 2#.I am running the cloudy one thru carbon to see what it does.
have a nice day everyone

I mostly do sugar washes.10 gallon batches of 10% washes.I all ways add heads&tails to next run. I decided to save the heads &tails and do a spirit run.Collected 3 gallon.Don't know % broke my meter,but I mostly get around 80%.I mixed the 3 gallon with 2.1/2 gallon of tap water.Saved first p...

Yes it was racked of about 4 or five days after it finished.It took it about a month to ferment. I would not let mine sit that long ,but he wasn't very bright.He let to many people know what he was doing.The gangbusters found his still but no hooch.But they did not bust him made him get rid of his s...

I have a friend who let two 55gall. of sugar wash sit for almost a year we ran it and it was fine
have a good day.

You can put a plywood blade in your saw backwards to cut soft metal including copper.

I got my kegs from a friend that runs a bar.The beer suppliers charge a $30.00 deposit on kegs.I pay that.Scrap yards in my area will not take kegs.
I ask why and they said there was a deposit on them a you had to prove it had been paid. Don't know if they are all like our scrap yard.
good luck

For anyone needing fermenting buckets. My best friends son works at starbucks.They have 5 and 3 gallon buckets with fruit in them they trash when empty.They have snap on lids all they need is a hole for a airlock.They also have 1 gal. glass jars that bell peppers come in.He brings me a jar about onc...

I bought a 2 gallon s/s pot with a lid.Drilled a hole in the center of the bottom Of pot. I took a 1/2"copper valve,male on one end female on the other.Put the male end through the pot and screwed a copper nut on it.Put a male copper adapter in the other end.Then I solderd a 3' long 1/2" c...

thanks guys,I have beer brewing buckets. I knew It was to good to be true
the lids were so nice.Reckon I'll use them to store junk in.
have a nice day.

Hi guys
I got two buckets that have screw on lids they are air tight.Easy to fit a airlock on.They came ice melt in them.IT contains calcium chloride,water,sodium chloride,potassium chloride and strontium chloride.Would they be save if I cleaned them good?
Thanks and have a great day
runingkind

I posted about doing this but no pictures.I did not get any feed back I must not explained it so people could understand it.I have two cooling tubes in the top that are 3/8" colum is 36"x2".I have a worm in a 55 gallon barrel with a pond pump running water from the worm barrel thru th...

A friend of mine wants to start making spirits,he is not on the net highway. He ask me for help so I told him all that you guys have showed me. I told him to start small till he learned how every thing worked.Helped him get his keg made his colum Showed him the sugar mash method.Told him not to do o...

Hi guys been a while since I have posted. I have a colum with cooling tubes in the top.It is 3'x2" with a 24"x2" condenser.A 55gallon drum with a pond pump running the cooling water.My problem is,in the winter if I don't keep a fire going my water freezes solid. I can run it as reflux...

My wife works in a drycleaners.They have a still that cleans the fluid.It is steam driven.She was burnt about a week ago from steam it fried her arm like an egg.The still runs about six hrs. a day. It cost around $1800.00 a mth to run it

Hi gents I got a boiler made from ss.Best I can figure it will hold 45gall.I met a old friend that works for for a company that sells ss pipe and fittings.I done some work on his house he built me a still. He is a great welder.It stands about five foot high and 16 inches in diameter.The colum is 3ft...

I made a pot still from a 15gallon keg,30' of 1/2" copper tubing.I had a 55 gallon drum for the worm to sit in with a hole in the bottom side to let the water out.Run a pond pump from a creek to the drum.Burner was a turkey cooker.I took it way back in the mountains sit it up.I ran a 10 gallon ...

Thanks guys,I only ran it once and collected till I only had water coming out. When I seen it didn't have any flavor I put it with my heads from my sugar washes I've been saving.I have enough copper to build a old fashion pot still with a worm out of 3/8 if 20' is enough.When I get time.I have flavo...