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pope wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 9:39 am Wow triple?? I did a 2” double w/cold finger for my boka which I’m no longer using, I would love to do something else with it, interested to see your results.

I was hoping to use this setup as a product condenser. Still not sure if I'm going to hop through with it. Just kicking ideas around.

I've been doing alittle more digging around on here and found this.

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This is exactly what I was thinking about building as far as the coil goes.

Well damn, that makes alot of sense. The customer of mine did say they'd like to build an all copper shotgun maybe I'll just stick to that route.

OK, I have got to ask. Why do you want to make something so simple and make it so difficult to make for no gain. The leak potential with that is major. We all have interest,s but hell let,s not beat our self. Why is the leak potential major? The inner shell technically only has one spot for a leak ...

Here's my poorly drawn drawing. The inner shell will be 3" sanitary stainless steel. The outer shell will be 4" sanitary stainless. With measurements taken today that will give me about a 3/8" gap all the way around the inner shell that water will circulate. The cold finger down will ...

You've got the skills, why not build another shotgun? They're compact and effective. I have been using a 1-1/2" OD x 20" long shotgun I made that is four 3/8" lengths of inner tubes, and for my speed on spirit runs, it works just fine for my 15 gal x 5500w boiler (granted I am below ...

OtisT wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:43 am Warno, are you talking about a product condenser, or reflux? I believe you are talking about using this for a product condenser.

Yes my intentions are to use this as the product condenser.

I think I'm going to attemp it. I've got an idea on my head I'll try to draw it up and post a picture of what I'm thinking.

I just recently built a shotgun but who doesn't like options given the means to build other peices. I started thinking about the dimroth style condenser then had the thought about putting it in a water jacketed shell. Everything would be in a cross flow configuration. With the pot being 30 gallons a...

Does it matter if the vapor path flows through the water (worm, shotgun, ect.) or if the water flows through the vapor path (dimroth, cold finger, ect.)? Is it simply about the total cold surface area available to bring the vapor back to liquid? I'm thinking about building a new condenser with a wat...

Seen the one the "pros" are using on Moonshiners this year? I think it has 20 to 25 mason jars hanging from a frame. I was going to screen shot this and post but you beat me to it. Lol In one of the following episodes some of the guys were using shark bite fittings on their system. I'm no...

I've been meaning to start a thread about my findings for stainless steel fittings. I'll post the site here if you don't mind.

That's a good read. Thank you for the reply. I have seen that video and it makes perfect sense. The boiler that is going with this thumper I'm asking about is plenty strong (14ga stainless) and will also have a valve to break the vacuum at the end of a run. I was mostly curious about this because I ...

Thanks everyone for the help on this. I'll look into the other, safe,
options posted.

Thanks everyone. When I was doing a search for acrylic use on this sight I wondered why nothing was coming up. Didn't even
think about acrylic being a type of plastic. Honestly a bit embarrassed for my original question.

I'll be honest when I came across those caps, I didn't think about acrylic being a type of plastic. And your are correct it says that in the rules. I do apologize for that.

That makes sense about the pyrex.

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Got it. Acrylic is a plastic and there for a no go. Thank you for the quick reply.

I've been going round and round about adding sight glasses to a build I'm working on when I came across these https://www.brewershardware.com/2-tri-clover-compatible-clear-cap.html?category_id=279 Would this be a viable option for a sight glass? If so, would they fog up and be useless anyway? I'm go...

Ok. Thanks guys. I'm in the process of building a pot and thumper and I cut the material based on a 30 gallon pot and 16 gallon thump but really wanted to make sure the amount of liquid in the thumper didn't need to be exact.

I understand a thumper should be 1/4 to 1/3 the size of the pot but my question is, does that mean total volume or actual gallons? What I mean is if I have 30 gallons of liquid in my pot, do I need minimum 10 gallons, going with 1/3, of liquid in the thumper? I haven't actually read a post that talk...

Just wanting to follow the rules and put my first post here. I've honestly never been around an operating still but I've built parts for them. They are only for water purification purposes.

So here I am to say hello