Mini Shotgun ?

[kenfyoozed]

I am in the planning stages to redesign my setup. I need to redesign my condenser. As of now my liebig is 58" long 3/4" inside 1". This has served my fine but I want to condense my setup. I am thinking of building a 1.5" shotgun condenser like a liebig with 3 1/2" tubes inside. The 3, 1/2" tubes should offer more cooling wall space and have a larger area so as not to cause any restriction. I thought of a length of roughly 36-48" . I will be running a 5500w element. I came up with this plan because I can only get 1.5" pipe in 20' sections. I am using roughly 6-8' for my boiler to thumper setup. Boiler sits on floor and thumper on kitchen island. So i will have a lot of 1.5" pipe left over. Thoughts?

[WalkingWolf]

Give it a go Brutha -- you definitely thinking in the right direction. Your thoughts will continue to develop and you'll be surprised at what you'll be building before long. There is quite a bit of info recently with shotgun and/or dephleg arrangements discussed. Shouldn't be too hard to figure it out. Let us know how it performs. I got a long-ass liebig I wouldn't mine shortening up myself.

good stillin

[Manback]

Suggestion made recently too late for me to implement - whack something in between your vapor tubes (in the coolant path) for a little circulation.

Oh, and whack some turbulators down the centre of each tube (in vapor path) - I know what it's like to be building a shotgun for efficiency, and I'd guess you wanna squeeze every bit of efficiency & capacity out of it that you can

Good luck!

[condensificator]

I am in the planning stages to redesign my setup. I need to redesign my condenser. As of now my liebig is 58" long 3/4" inside 1". This has served my fine but I want to condense my setup. I am thinking of building a 1.5" shotgun condenser like a liebig with 3 1/2" tubes inside. The 3, 1/2" tubes should offer more cooling wall space and have a larger area so as not to cause any restriction. I thought of a length of roughly 36-48" . I will be running a 5500w element. I came up with this plan because I can only get 1.5" pipe in 20' sections. I am using roughly 6-8' for my boiler to thumper setup. Boiler sits on floor and thumper on kitchen island. So i will have a lot of 1.5" pipe left over. Thoughts?

yep. i made one just like you are describing...here is a link to the build, there are lots of pics: http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 16&t=17539

works awesome! if i had it to do again, i would add some twisted strips inside of the 1/2" tubes for turbulance and more surface area, but i am very happy with it's performance.

[kenfyoozed]

condensificator-- you had to go and show me that didint you?! That looks awesome. Good to know the idea works. I really like the idea of dropping the 3 .5" into a 1" at the end. My skills are no where close to yours, so I dont know how I would make that happen. Any thoughts on how this could be obtained without your super skills?

[condensificator]

i think the standard shotgun type construction would work just fine... wall off the water and join the 3 together to the outside with a plate drilled with the holes in the right spots...std 1.5 x X reducer on either side to join....it would be easier to do the turbulators that way anyhow.

the thing that makes it pretty easy, is that 3 of the 1/2" couplers fit perfectly inside of the 1-1/2" pipe. takes care of all of the spacing, and makes it easy to solder everything together in stages....make any sense? just grab 3 couples and try it out, you'll see what i mean. you can kind of see what i mean on the pics in the shredder thread. only tricky part will be to make the plates...but if cutting the copper doesn't work out, this could be a really good project to try this FDM sand/solder method on: http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =2&t=18212