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Welcome from another northwester. I'm on the peninsula in kitsap County

Welcome. In a bit of time you can add distiller to your resume. Have fun. You can learn a lot here, but you'll learn more from your mistakes. It'll happen. Lol hopefully you can learn from others mistakes as well. There's plenty of successes and failures to read about here

I can understand how there can be a whole new generation that think vaccines are pointless . They have not seen what it was like before vaccines . How many if you remember seeing kids with one leg shorter than the other and having to wear stirrups on their legs all their life having caught Polio be...

I zoomed in just to read the wifi password. Lol

And there goes my sense of smell again! I can hold a bottle of peppermint essential oil to my nose and breathe in deeply and while I can feel the menthol, I get just the faintest hint of mint odour. Omicron is outpacing Delta, not because it doesn't kill the host, (because in any case a patient wit...

People here in Washington state are getting hit hard again. Seems like everyone I know either has it or just getting back from having it. So far I haven't gotten it again, hopefully I don't. I saw a professor from one of the elite colleges (didn't catch the name, but it's a lady that I thought was a...

Welcome!! Do lots of reading before you commit to a particular style of still. There's so many different types that do things better depending on what you have in mind to make. It's a lot to take in

I'm really not looking forward to catching this thing, for many years I smoked a couple packs of cigarettes a day, I guess that hasn't gone a long way toward helping lung function. When I get the flu now I feel a lot like what you guys are describing.......this shit sounds worse though. On the up s...

I got it, bad. Its ironic, my 68 year old mother gave it to me and she barely felt anything. Here I am 38 and fit and I have been down for 9 days. We were both vaccinated. Day 10 now and still feel like my lungs are at 10% capacity. Really would like to get some stuff done, but sitting around sound...

My step son and his girlfriend are both vaccinated and boosted. (Wa state) They are both home from work with the covid. My step daughter is unvaccinated. She's also home in Idaho with it as well as her husband and 3 kids. I'm happy I've already dealt with it, curious if I'll end up with it again. Th...

cob wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 8:28 pm I got my first shot yesterday because it took this long for me to determine who was lying to us.

my final determination. Every last one of them.

Absolutely!!

I was vaccinated in June, caught the delta in August. Right before our road trip to south dakota. Fortunately I was out of quarantine a couple days before we left. The shit part was i lost my taste and smell for several months after. I had zero energy for about 10 days, sweat like a whore in church,...

Poured rain all day yesterday. Then around 9pm I look outside and my car is covered in snow again. This morning it's pouring rain again. Lol I'm done with snow. My wife is stuck home whenever we have snow. Her van just doesn't like going up the driveway when it's slick. I always tell her I want to ...

Poured rain all day yesterday. Then around 9pm I look outside and my car is covered in snow again. This morning it's pouring rain again. Lol I'm done with snow. My wife is stuck home whenever we have snow. Her van just doesn't like going up the driveway when it's slick. I always tell her I want to t...

There's a definite learning curve. Turns out what you and I considered a still is really not. There's so many different types that are a better tool for whatever you want to make. I'm working on a "bokakob" reflux still right now. Depending on who you ask, you'll get lots of different opin...

Under no circumstance use pex where alcohol vapors can contact. It's fine for hot water, but alcohol vapor will cause pex to leech into your product. Not to mention the other chemicals that come from distillation. Acetone being one of them. You can poison yourself. Plastics are a big no no on this f...

Just read your welcome center post. You might consider a bigger boiler and using your 2.5 gallon still as a thumper. The lid already seals, so you're halfway there.

Hello, I have a new still that was purchased from Amazon. I put it together and found that when the vapors leave the pot and enter into the thumper the down pipe(from the lid to the bottom) inside the thumper is not a part of the still. Which defeats the purpose of the thumper so I need to know wha...

HDNB wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:31 am -40*C here. it's what we call "squeaky snow cold". no fresh stuff falling, too cold for that.

That's the throw a cup of water into the air and watch it crystallize cold!! Haven't felt temps like that since Dutch harbor during the opilio crab season!!

We spent the holiday in leavenworth wWashington in a cabin right on the Wenatchee River. Went and did some snowmobiling, lots of snow. Well it snowed everywhere in western Washington while we were gone. Temperatures were 1 degree which is unusual. Anyway, after a 6 hour drive home, I had to get a fi...

Welcome from another northwester. I'm up north by Seattle, but I've been to battleground many times. What kind of still did she get you? DRHillier, thanks for the greeting. Not much to do in Battle Ground unless your interested in seeing a mini-Crater Lake type park. I have a Vevor 2 pot 9.6gallons...

We got 12°f here with sub 0 wind chills. Wood pile is goin down fast. Snow just clipped us. But I am ready for the long beards to thaw out and start hammering. And one of my damn goats kidded two days ago, crazy bitch. It's not that bad here yet. Not even close. Supposed to be getting to 16 degrees...

Welcome from another northwester. I'm up north by Seattle, but I've been to battleground many times. What kind of still did she get you?

I always Sautee on the stove in lots of butter and garlic, then sprinkle lemon pepper on them once done. I'll have to try it your way.

What did she get you? Do you have a brand and model by chance? Welcome to the site.

I've got a p4, Mavic pro, and a p3 pro they sure are fun. But being in Washington state they are put away right now. To cold and wet to fly them. I really enjoy getting a really good photo captured, upload it to Costco and get it printed onto metal to hang on the wall.

Welcome. I can be helpful and tell you not to go to Amazon for a still. I made that mistake.

Setsumi: And I figure that working on twisting up a coil would be a great little engineering project in and of itself. I'm also going to waste some copper attempting to build a coil. Lol I do custom brake lines in cars all the time, but those are steel with a copper sleeve. I hope that they are som...

For kicks I priced Baileys in the store yesterday and was surprised how expensive it is. i'm surprised at how popular it is. they sell like 9 million cases of it a year world wide and there is far superior creams out there. baileys is cloyingly sweet and sticks to your mouth for about a week after ...

still_stirrin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:39 am

DRHillier wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 7:36 pm… I don't care about what's cool. (I drive a subaru forester) …

At least it’s not an AMC Pacer! That would really be UNCOOL.

If I could find an AMC eagle, I'd totally rock that. All wheel drive straight 6. 8mpg. Awesome car