Coiled Liebig

[Windswept]

Just popped into my head, but has anyone made a coiled liebig condenser before? I'm thinking I could take a piece of 1/2" copper tubing and push it into a piece of 3/4" copper (or even 1" black plastic tubing). Kind of like mashing a worm and a liebig together.

I clearly haven't thought it through all the way, but thought I'd get some feedback.

[NZChris]

Not coiled, bent. After bending, I wrapped the inner with a spiral of electrical cable the diameter of the gap then pushed clear plastic tube over it.

[StillerBoy]

Were you thinking of a graham condenser..

Check the link on a graham built.. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41674

Mars

[Windswept]

Were you thinking of a graham condenser..

Check the link on a graham built.. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41674

Mars

Not a graham, but a jacketed worm, I guess would be closest. Maybe I’ll just make one and see how it works!

[StillerBoy]

Not a graham, but a jacketed worm, I guess would be closest. Maybe I’ll just make one and see how it works!

It will work alright, but the weight of it, once full of circulating water, will be heavy..

Mars

[Yummyrum]

Myles built one about 8-10 years ago and theres some cool pics of it here somewhere . Don’t have time atm to seach it .

[Twisted Brick]

Myles built one about 8-10 years ago and theres some cool pics of it here somewhere . Don’t have time atm to seach it .

I'm not so sure Myles built anything that wasn't cool. Here's the links:


http://www.coppercustomstillcomponents. ... .php?t=146" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

http://forum.moderndistiller.com/viewto ... =61&t=1488" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[WillieP]

Just popped into my head, but has anyone made a coiled liebig condenser before? I'm thinking I could take a piece of 1/2" copper tubing and push it into a piece of 3/4" copper (or even 1" black plastic tubing). Kind of like mashing a worm and a liebig together.

I clearly haven't thought it through all the way, but thought I'd get some feedback.

If you do a Google search for "DIY coiled counterflow wort chiller" you will get a good assortment of ideas. The beer guys use these quite a bit.
I just thought this might be along the lines of what you were thinking.
Hope it helps.
WillieP

[hellbilly007]

WillieP, ya beat me to it. What you've described is a counter-flow chiller. The OP, that is

[Yummyrum]

Myles built one about 8-10 years ago and theres some cool pics of it here somewhere . Don’t have time atm to seach it .

I'm not so sure Myles built anything that wasn't cool. Here's the links:


http://www.coppercustomstillcomponents. ... .php?t=146" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

http://forum.moderndistiller.com/viewto ... =61&t=1488" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Thanks twisted
LOL I scanned through 84 pages of posts that Myles had made and couldn’t find it. ( over 2400 posts )
Apparently he used photo bucket ... and the rest is history .

Yes thats the one . Cheers
And thanks for posting a real pic . Unless members are signed up to CCSC or MD they can’t see pics ..... thats one thing I really love about HD forum .... vistors can see all pics .

[Windswept]

Just popped into my head, but has anyone made a coiled liebig condenser before? I'm thinking I could take a piece of 1/2" copper tubing and push it into a piece of 3/4" copper (or even 1" black plastic tubing). Kind of like mashing a worm and a liebig together.

I clearly haven't thought it through all the way, but thought I'd get some feedback.

If you do a Google search for "DIY coiled counterflow wort chiller" you will get a good assortment of ideas. The beer guys use these quite a bit.
I just thought this might be along the lines of what you were thinking.
Hope it helps.
WillieP

Exactly! I didn't think it was a new idea, thanks for the links!

[StillerBoy]

Here's a link that one of the poster stated how he built his coiled liebig..

http://www.artisan-distiller.net/phpBB3 ... 8&start=15" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Mars

[Kareltje]

That is really nice work!
I made one out of the same motivation.
Took 1 m length of 15 mm OD inside a bit shorter 22 mm OD (20 mm ID). Soldered a wire around the inner pipe, locked a 15-15-22 T on one side and bended with a bending iron. It took some strength and I was a bit rough, but it worked. When I reached the other end, I fitted another 15-15-22 mm T.

It went quiet well, but I forgot to think about the diameter of the spiral. Result was a very unpractical half-spiral that was too hard to balance. Never used it.
Can't find the pictures now, but I will post them as soon as I see them.

[Kareltje]

Found them

The left side. Left the right side open.

The black colours are made by the attempt to anneal by a wood fire.

Halfway. I wanted to make a full circle with straight bends to the left and right. But, as the diameter was much larger than I expected, it just came to this:

I should have let out the first counterbend or have taken pipes of 2 in stead of 1 m.
Now that I see them again, some 3 years later, I think of soldering another length to it and finish the curves.