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Shit you say im a wizzard???? I may be lookin you up fer some baaaad assss metal work in the future. Frikkin beautiful.the vapor inlet is the one with the holes in it. it goes down the 1-1/2" all the way to the bottom of the barrel, out the holes...the thumpificated vapor out is the branch going down off of the bottom of the 3" reducer.Azframer wrote:I don't know much but wouldn't you want your inlet to come down to close to bottom of thumpificator to reheat into vapor again? Your vapor would rise to go around the outer of inlet tube? May be a stupid question.
Great work. blump, blump, blump,blump, you oughta get us a sound recording of the sound that thing thumperficatin. 
shined a high power flashlight through the inlet to get a fancy picture. looks cool with the optical distortion from the water...the holes on the bottom look like they are right at the glass level.
looks like you have used a silicon gasket for the glass to seel against 
I have used the same it works great. can you tell me what thickness glass you used I had trouble initially with sight glasses cut from 3mm that were not concentric which didn't seel too well. anyhoo looks awesome, so have you given it a run yet?????+1 what did you use for your glass. did you just cut some glass? is so what thickness?nwvapors wrote:What did you use for glass? The only thing I can find from suppliers that deal in tri-clamp windows are plastic. Very interested in how you pulled that off. It would solve a buttload of thinkin' on my potential stainless flute build.
thanks. the glass is 5.5mm pyrex that i scored from glassman (thanks again gm!)...and of course, there is NO SILICONE!!! i don't want the plastic police showing up at my door. i used a regular teflon tri-clamp gasket, and cut the ridge off of one side with a razor blade, then planed/lapped it on some sandpaper. the glass is ground to pretty much the same contour as a regular tri-clamp ferrule...the side of the diamond hole saw used to cut the glass disc, can be used to grind the glass, just need to keep it a bit wet. if i were going to make a bunch, i would just get a dedicated diamond wheel for it. after the contour is put in, i wrapped 7 or 8 layers of teflon tape around the outside edge...enough that there is a good pad for the clamp do delicately, but firmly hold the glass.MashMan wrote:G'day condensificator, nice work dude, glad someone else has seen the simplicity in using a tri clamp setup for a sight glass, nice job
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that barrel's pretty much done with. 3 runs of ujssm through it, and it doesn't have much to offer another. i've got a few others that are at this stage, and they'll be good for rum. definitely got my money's worth out of it already, so, i gladly offer up the barrel in the honor of the ones who came before me who used barrels for thumpers!olddog wrote:Your workmanship and innovation, is outstanding as usual, but the question arises, why you would sacrifice a barrel when most of us would give our eye teeth to be able to obtain a barrel like that to store our likker.
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