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My thoughts and prayers go out to his family. How sad and tragic to hear the news. RIP Ben

Gotta love when it’s clear as Chrystal

Stonecutter wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:41 pm Looking good Pastor. That’s sure to bring the “spirit” to the congregation

Just following in Elijah Craig’s footsteps

It’s been a long time since I’ve ran but finally got to a %100. Bloody butcher corn whiskey

acfixer69 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:31 am Well if it leaks then it leaks from the inside and will be soldered also. So technically yes. If it is accessible to scrub clean, I would just wash with a vinegar solution then some heads. If it is not it's your call.

It actually would be easily accessible

I appreciate the input everyone and it was along the lines I was thinking. I cannot guarantee that no flux will get the whole way in as I know that is the issue we are trying to clean out. Ive got some mash I want to run for actual consumption so not having to do another vinegar and sac run would ha...

Hey everyone, I recently built a new part of my still room attach to my thumper and doing my vinegar and sac runs I noticed a pinhole leak. I plan to hit it with more solder but my question is if the solder (seemingly) will only be on the outside of the joint will I need to do another vinegar and sa...

Deplorable wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 3:53 pm Nice. Does that deflag knock down all your vapors on your cleaning runs?
I think you'll be pretty happy with that once you get some hose management in place for all them cooling lines.

Only done the vinegar rim but it knocked it all down

The vinegar run on my new reflux setup/updated Liebig. I maximized my head space for sure.

dunluce wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 6:19 pm

Salt Must Flow wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 9:17 am It looks like there's a water line right next to his grain mill.

Correct, totally missed that.

Yeah I got a potable water hose bib that put into the water line that goes to my hose hookup outside

Fill it with water, drop the hydrometer in and measure how much liquid it holds to better understand your “smear volume”. I bet it’s more than 250ml. ss You should put a small ball of stainless mesh in the bottom of of the main tube so when you drop the hydrometer in it does not break. Yeah that’s ...

still_stirrin wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 6:39 am Fill it with water, drop the hydrometer in and measure how much liquid it holds to better understand your “smear volume”. I bet it’s more than 250ml.
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Looks like around 180ml of smearing can happen

Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 1:16 am Should do the job , will it have a base attached to make it free standing ?

Yeah gonna make a wooden base

Attempted my first parrot today

Setsumi wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 7:53 am I like your large pipe cutter... can it do 3"?

Nope largest is 2.5. I use it to cut 2 inch

That's a nice, well illuminated room and easily cleaned. How do you manage your waste water? Do you send it to a drain line above? Do you recycle water, have a floor drain or a sink with drain? I've seen some basements that have a 'lift station' to pump waste water up to a drain in the mail level a...

Ideally one would have a fairly clean, climate controlled space to mash, ferment and distill. But I'm finding that to be unachievable it seems. I mash outside, Ferment in a closet and distill in the garage. I do all my mashing in this room as I have a large mashtun and a keggle. The large container...

Life got the best of me and I haven’t been able to do much but I’m jumping back in. I wanted to get my distilling room in a good place so I took on a construction project in my tool room to make it better for the hobby 248FE353-2974-46A1-B98C-12C47673AADF.jpeg FB72AB5E-32F3-4FF5-8290-1B82A9A940B6.jp...

Simple mash tun build for me as I didn’t like my electric keggle set up. My keggle will serve well as a HLT and I believe would work well for single malt but for corn it just had too much empty space under the false bottom. Using a custom brew bag for new picnic cooler mash tun. A43834CF-0D43-493F-B...

Setsumi wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 11:50 am well done pastor! i am not ready to attend church yet, we are entering the third wave in my neck of woods.... but a run is always a good way to recharge and a bourbon is so fitting with your profession.

Following in Elijah Craig’s footsteps haha

Monday is the day I recharge from leading my church so it’s also the day to distill some bourbon.

Butch27 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:39 pm I am glad to hear it! I really try to not give bad advice.

When I think about how you did it it seems so obvious but I don’t think I ever would have thought of it thank you!

:clap: Well built. Do you think it needs a chute between the bucket and the bottom of the mill to minimize flour loss, or a raised platform to bring the bucket closer to the bottom of the mill? Edit to ask You said the MM2 will crush whole kernel corn from the feed store? It will and does! I also m...

It’s been A LONG time since I have updated this because of life getting in the way haha. I have finally completed my grain mill complete with a reversing drum switch which another member helped forgive out the wiring to. DC4108C4-AC2F-47B0-A9FC-2A67ECE50531.jpeg 36E930A6-0181-4678-B193-340757C8157C....

That is the switch. I have 4 leads coming from my motor plus the ground of course. Hot, neutral, a, b for ease. To switch the motor direction A and B have to switch between the two others Ok, i will take a stab at this since no one else is stepping up to the plate. image.png There are 6 terminals. ...

That is the switch. I have 4 leads coming from my motor plus the ground of course. Hot, neutral, a, b for ease. To switch the motor direction A and B have to switch between the two others

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Butch27 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:51 pm So the motor has 4 wires? Did they tell you which two wires need to be swapped to reverse the motor? I don't have one of those switches handy and it's been awhile. Can you post a couple pics of it?

4 wires, I know which needs to switch just not able to get it to work no matter how I wire it.

I'm not sober enough to give you an answer :lol: Here's some info for folks that might want to try. https://allamericanaleworks.com/pages/info-faq Gear motor single phase AC, capacitor start / capacitor run, reversible, 110 Volt or 220 Volt https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Positon-Forward-Reverse-Cont...