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I saw it earlier ,was going to comment , but didn't , its nice for sure , real copper porn

Sweet Jesus , thats the nicest coil .

I’m really impressed eric . 1/4” is one thing but 3/16” is a while new level .

Looking good man. Nice coil.

Back at it need to get this coil finished up. All pieces fitted just need to clean up and solder. Last pic is coil sitting in my LM head. Going to use 3/8 push lock couplings to connect to hoses.

Hi there BG, I'd recommend a CCVM setup for neutral using a packed column with the full height packed - No plates. The full packed height will get you more re-distillations without plates if you after a more pure and clean neutral. Plated ...

thanks guys, yummy have a tee on bottom and top 180 out so in parallel one supply one return. About to roll out headed to the mountains in shine country and motorcycle heaven.

I like the use of the tee in the coil. Wish I'd have thought of that. Would've made my life easier when winding my coil. Nice work Eric!!

Hell yeah Eric .
Thats not your usual dual wound condenser .
Are you going to parallel feed tham at the top or have seperate feed rate valves per coil ?

Top notch work

Hadn't had much time to work on the reflux coil but did make a little progress. Used tee's to connect the coils, added a pic how the pipe and tee was tweaked to work in comparison to one not modified. Compressed the coils to be 8" of length, lost a couple of rows until came up with the fit of ...

Hadn't had much time to work on the reflux coil but did make a little progress. Used tee's to connect the coils, added a pic how the pipe and tee was tweaked to work in comparison to one not modified. Compressed the coils to be 8" of length, lost a couple of rows until came up with the fit of t...

Sounds like a plan. Thanks for the pictures. Have fun and stay safe.

thanks for the feedback guys Searching the archives don't know if cold finger would be the right term, would call it a supply line to the bottom of both coils. Now thinking will use a 3/8 line down the center going to a tee to connect the coils together, i wound the coils in opposite directions to a...

... you also intend to install a Cold Finger . You really don't 'need' one with this 3/8" double coil (considering that it is already optimal). CCVM stills typically use a significantly longer reflux coil than any other reflux still design so that's another reason. If you do use a Cold Finger, ...

^^^ yes that the plan also going to use a 1/2 pipe down the center to feed water to both coils from the bottom. wouldn't have thought single 10" 3/8 would be enough to knock down 5500 watts, thanks for the info. I found my data on two 3/8” tubing coils. For comparison, both were in a 4” column...

Nice Lil coil. Should be easy to attach a cold finger to.

Lookin good bro

messing around with some pipe i had for a mandrel and decided to make some rings to see the clearance i would have, outer ring went good. when doing the inner ring it was going good to decided to roll with the rest of the spare tubing i had. ended up with a 8" length coil, salt was used. Have a...

Subscribed. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

^^^ yes that the plan also going to use a 1/2 pipe down the center to feed water to both coils from the bottom.

wouldn't have thought single 10" 3/8 would be enough to knock down 5500 watts, thanks for the info.

Another helpful item for making 3/8 coils if you are worried about kink issues would be to use 3/8” elbows. They can help join two single coils and/or help anywhere you have a tight bend. I made 3/8” copper double coil, independent I/O, dephleg/RC for a 4” column. Those little elbows made the fabric...

thanks for the link have two pieces a pipe set aside, will compare the sizes later when get home to what Hedben used.

It's all about the mandrel size. This topic comes to mind where Hebden wound his first coil (3/8" if I recall) for his 3" VM. Filling the tubing with salt is extremely helpful in my experience.

Hey wildcats have done coils in the past with good results all double row. one for 1 1/2" and 3" with 1/4 refrig tubing and one for 4" with 3/8 tubing. Was never happy with the flow restriction on the 3" with 1/4 tubing being using a pond pump for flow so am going to attempt a 3&...

finished the rough cut on the 2" ferule next will be the fun part of trying to do a double coil 3/8 refrigeration tubing rc. Plenty of good stuff on winding coils on here. I tried to use 3/8" tubing. But I ended up using 1/4". Let us know how you get along with your coil. Spring bend...

finished the rough cut on the 2" ferule next will be the fun part of trying to do a double coil 3/8 refrigeration tubing rc.

thanks, just finished fitting this 2" ferule for the sight glass. nice and snug that needs a tap with a rubber mall to go into place. just need to trim the back side of the ferrule.

Looks good. You will be happy with that. I like the flush fit of the ferrules. I did mine the same. I like it!

Have fun and stay safe.

^^^ diameter x pie x number of rows should get me close. Had time this weekend to fit the ferrules. the street elbow was pretty thick so had to take quite a bit of material to get a hand tight snug fit. the 3" the stainless ferules fit loose in DMV pipe and are too big for type m pipe. used typ...

Myself run CCVM on my flutes. I doubt you will taste a difference between product from a CCVM and CM head. I am with Shady, not that I have any experience with CM. +1 I figure the still head makes no difference in taste. All the ...

Myself run CCVM on my flutes. I doubt you will taste a difference between product from a CCVM and CM head. I am with Shady, not that I have any experience with CM. The flavour in a flute comes in a large part from the action on ...