Best wound coil

pyrobrewer280 · Post by **pyrobrewer280** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:57 pm

I saw a photo of a beautifully wound double coil (I have read hundreds of posts in the last week) and now cannot find it

. If you have posted a coil photo take pity on me and point me to your post.
I would like to hear from others as to what they think the best pics are of coils they have seen or if not so pretty, proven good performers. At least they would then be all in one place.

airbalancer · Post by **airbalancer** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:16 pm

I wound this coil around a piece of 2” copper. I used a spring bender and just kept twisting around. I think the key to the spring bender is a lot of lube. I used some wire pulling lube but dish detergent would work too. After I finished coiling I put a drill point screw through the end of the ¼” tube into the 2” pipe to hold it in place, then twisted it as tight as I could and put a screw through the other end. I took a few extra feet of the ¼” tubing and squashed it flat on a treadle hammer, a vise would work as well, and soldered it along the sides to every 3rd coil or so. The excess was folded over to hook it on the 3” pipe. When I was done, I removed the screws and slid it off of the 2” pipe, cut the ends back and finished with ¼” elbows. I used some extra pieces if the flattened tube to make standoffs to keep the coil centered in the pipe. The condenser is extremely ridged, and a bit overkill but it works nice.

Mike
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Brewmeister · Post by **Brewmeister** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:28 pm

pyro,
Dunno if this is the one you are after. The coil is down the bottom of the page.
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... sc&start=0

jmc91199 · Post by **jmc91199** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:01 am

airbalancer

What is the purpose for having a second condenser hooked to your take off point.

What is the controller box for? Is that what you use to regulate the element in your milk jug. If so that's a fine bit of work!

hornedrhodent · Post by **hornedrhodent** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:08 pm

Something like this one?

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i131/ ... l/Coil.jpg

pyrobrewer280 · Post by **pyrobrewer280** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:20 am

Something like this one?

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i131/ ... l/Coil.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Looks great have'nt seen that one but its given me an idea:)

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:57 am

lets make this a topic to post all our coils

I Think Grayson Steward has a nice one too

Rotgut · Post by **Rotgut** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:34 pm

stoker wrote:lets make this a topic to post all our coils

I Think Grayson Steward has a nice one too

please excuse my ignorance but is that coil wound for the water flow or is it for the spirit? is it a double helix?

Rebel_Yell · Post by **Rebel_Yell** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:26 am

Water flow. The tubing is too small to use for spirit flow.

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:28 am

single helix, water run
6 mm copper

Post by **Grayson_Stewart** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:13 am

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=188#188