Any reason not to build a Bokabob MAXI-Still??

[fahdoul]

I have a Bokabob ministill that I am delighted with, only thing is I use it on a stovetop and cannot take advantage of the full 2350 watts the stove burner puts out. This is a minor drawback, so effective and elegant is the design, that would never bother me were it not that last weekend a series of chance meetings put me in possession of a 15.5 gal SS beer keg and 7' of 2" copper pipe, so a larger still seems inevitable.

2" fittings being so expensive, I am wondering why rather than use the offset head still that seems to be the standard for a 2" column I shouldn't just scale up the Mini-Still and build, say, a 3' high 2" diameter slant plate still.

BTW I was looking at the moonshine still site and while it is a truely impressive job, I do not understand the point of the 3" condensor housing - it requires another hard to find, expensive piece of material, several very expensive 3" fittings, and none of which seem necessary.

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