Building a still out of stainless steel

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redace33
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Building a still out of stainless steel

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My question is, is their a certain stainless steel you should use, can you use stainless steel exhaust pipe it's 16 gauge,and the material is T-407 unpolished. So could you build a still out of this material.Thank's for any input on this.
Stainless
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Re: Building a still out of stainless steel

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Hi redace, don't use any stainless unless its 304 or 316 grade, if it's magnetic its no good.
cheers hth
ps some big? co. sold me a 2metre length of '' stainless steel exhaust tube/pipe'' showed a pic of highly polished 304/316 grade tube.
sent me a 2metre piece of shit galvanised steel tube??? and this was on ebay uk.
PM me for details all uk people, i never got my money back or a reply to messages or phone calls
Stainless ????
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GaMountainMan
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Re: Building a still out of stainless steel

Post by GaMountainMan »

agree with stainless but my question is what is your boiler? like above post said it must be at least 304 grade... you can build a ss pot still with a thumper like i have 25 gallon but semi copper ( after boiler ) pm me for more info! keep readin bro
Anything worth doing is worth over doing.
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