This is the bowl/head/ boiler connection. The 3" copper is silver soldered to the stainless steel bowl. Bowl held down with 1" flat bar and wing nuts.
This is the top of the head. This is 3/4" copper which couples to a water jacket type condensor. The condersor is 2" copper pipe with a 3/4" pipe (which the distillate travels through) running the length through the inside.
Another pic of the top of the head with the thermometer.
This is the business end of the water jacket condensor where the product is collected. The reason we made this kind of condensor was for cleaning purposes. It's super easy to clean the product tube. We tie a piece of scotchbrite pad on a piece of binder twine and pull it through, just like cleaning a rifle barrel. Notice the collection is done a considerable distance from the heat source (propane).
We've used this still twice now. The first time was just a strip run for a sugar wash. This still works well for stripping, it is very quick if you want it to be. After stripping with this still we set up the reflux column and ran it through again for neutral spirit.
The second run with it was a whiskey run. We ran it through twice. Cut heads and tails on the second run. The hearts ran beween 70-80% AV.
The whiskey is only a couple days old but I think it turned out well.
But in all honesty I've made whiskey just as good in the reflux still with just one run. Now this is just my humble opinion...and I'm going to play with this pot still more. We still got 2 batches of rum to run. It will be interesting to see how it compares to the rum we did up in the reflux still.
That's about it any comments, questions, suggestions?
nice. Even if you only use it for a stripper you should be proud(and i'm sure you are).