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Just refering to those coolers, Dunder. Especially if, say, somebody :oops: had used one for a 4 day party for sandwich meats and might not have cleaned it out as well( or soon) as they should have. Even after sanitizing, my wash developed the top floating, stringey, white, STANKIN mold overnight wh...

I've done, and seen discussed positively on here and other forums, using coolers as both mashing and fermenting vessels. As far as fermenting goes; one word SANITIZE! SANITIZE! SANITIZE! My experience, those coolers can be a HAVEN of nasties. I used hot bleach water and One Step sanitizer on one aft...

Thanks Spooky. Now I have to try to find a vid of them with good sound :D I see they like Queen and do a great job of it. I'm still trying to get a copy of the Freddie Mercury tribute concert. Watched it on TV when it happened. Ears rang for 2 days. I love these guys and this is a great cover. http:...

Been wondering about using this idea to test the number of holes in each plate and crimp the rivits permenantly when the right balance is found. I was also thinking stainless might be seen better against the copper. Of course( yes olddog, I hear ya) I could test it out too if I had windows in mine.

Isn't that "The Colonel's" 220 gallon double diamond? Added a vaccuum pump to it, I see. I do see a squigley bit of plastic on the takeoff on his website. Shame, really.

I think it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. I suspect you wouldn't need it for the column to perform, but, Joe is using it to seal the reflux in place and not let it drain out of the plate when running slower or stopping in the middle of a run. My understanding of it ,anyway. The plate ...

AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGG!!!! MY EYES! MY EYES! On topic, you know those plastic stands they put in the middle of a large pizza to keep the box from getting in the cheese when they deliver it? What about something like that, made out of stainless or copper, at about 2-2.5 inch diameter over the 2 inch inlet...

What do you think of packing after the 2 inch, up into the 4 inch below the bottom plate? Sort of a buffer as it's expanding.

I usually only take mine out to clean when I switch washes, whiskey to rum, rum to vodka, like that. Might not need to, but i just don't want to mix leftovers, especially between rum and whiskey. For neutral, everything, including the boiler, gets a good cleaning.

KS wrote

no more stripping for me..

The Girls at the Club will be VERY dissappointed!

Awesome vid!! ( The still NOT the Club )

Brief list to try to cover Some of the music I listen to( taken from my "music" file on computer; 10,000 Maniacs, AC/DC, Aerosmoth, Alanis Morrisette, Anthrax, Black Lable Society, Black Sabbath,Blues Brothers, Blues Traveler, Charlie Daniels, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Corky and the Juice Pi...

Also, I've noticed that as I get to the end of the tank, the smell gets stronger. This happens on my kitchen stove, grill and turkey burner. DEFINATELY scour your set up for leaks and test your oxygen adjust. Mine only runs efficiently when the O2 flap is wide open.

Hey OreO, I burned up 3 fountain pumps before spending the extra( not much more, mind you) on a 1/6 hp sump pump. They come threaded for garden hose which, when cut, fits snuggly over 1/2 inch copper tube. A couple zip ties and it's water tight. The hardware store I got it at also had brass nipples ...

Are you refering to the single cap per plate? What kind of dimensions are you thinking? 1.5 inch tube, 2 inch cap, 2 @ 1/2 inch down commers?

Hope you're up and running soon, Joe. I'm going to have mine set up like yours, more or less plates by removing the depphlag. As you pointed out, I'll probably be using one or two plates most of the time for whisky, so I'm thinking having a shorter column will save some on heating. Maybe 2 fifteen i...

I always wanted to build a real honest to goodness forge. It's among about a thousand other projects. Getting heat isn't a problem for soldering, it's the TIGing that wouldn't work for me. Small machine, old, WELL broken in. For soldering I can use acytelyn and either a welding tip or a rosebud if I...

Got some building done and new pics. Turned some of the plates and got the down commers TIGed. HPIM1346.JPG Forgot to get a pic turning :oops: HPIM1354.JPG HPIM1352.JPG 5" of 1/2" TIGed 3/8" off the bottom of 3/4" cap flattened to both sides. I figure this should look like a foun...

Congratulations Joe!! Hopefully me too by next summer.

Looks like we found the design for our "Fife"

Word i got was DCEN and 2%. Tried preheating. Would lose puddle and become poreous quick as it cooled. My origional plan was to have the whole rig be copper colored except for stainless where applicable, no solder lines. 2" stuff TIGed great. When I get over my (infantile) frustration with that...

Sorry for little progress. Been having setbacks on the dephlag. The thickness and sheer size of the copper being used on this thing is just too much for our little TIG unit. I've tried, our lead welder has tried, all no good. It just won't puddle. The thin stuff is easy to get a decent weld on. Deci...

Too late now, but let's not forget the wonderful health benefits of Apple Pie Pantie Dropper! Always a favorite this time of year .

You have EXTRA rhubarb? I can't keep up with the strawberry/ rhubarb jam.

Looking at your drawings, at this level of distillation, I don't believe there will be any differance in your flavor profile or output rate between either. As the angles are both downward and the tubing size is constant, I would suggest going with whichever one gives the best fit for your collection...

I think you'll find that packing a 3 inch column is going to be WAY more expensive than packing a 2 as you are filling double the volumn, and 3 inch pipe is more expensive( special order in my area) than 2". Keeping the cost down with few fittings is easy to do with a little planning ahead. One...

Hey Rad, I didn't know if the increased velocity might be responsible for OD's bottom plate not filling. He's almost got me convinced to put windows in mine to find out. Curse your logic, Sir!

We can start our own fife and drum band!!

Few new pics. Cut the top of the worm bucket and wound the worm around a large arcon tank mounted to a TIG welder. One end was ratchet strapped to the tank and using a LOT of pull, wrapped all 50 feet. HPIM1330.JPG HPIM1331.JPG Kept kinking the worm trying to get it bent to the angle I wanted for th...

Excellant all around. Very nice!

One major(?) difference on mine is I'm going to be feeding the column through a 4" ferrull. No 2" reduction. I've been wondering if this means I should drill more holes in the plates to allow more flow. I really dont want the extra work of building variable plates, but, I do have some time...