Lulu the Stripper

[Hound Dog]

Most of the rigs I have seen here as strippers were named Candy or something dainty. Well this momma practiced stripping with Madea so she gets named Lulu.

I took my old copper boiler and did some upgrades. I put sanitary fittings on it instead of the old friction fit.

Old boiler

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New boiler top

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You can see I also added a fill port and some reinforcement for when I run a column. My old column was a bit taller and secured to the rafter to help with support, the copper tubing rings really stiff end the top up.

[Hound Dog]

I also went electric with two 5500w wavy ultra low density elements.

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With a SSR controller like Cranky's and the meter Bear suggested. In an old Makita drill box.

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And a drain in the bottom.

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[Hound Dog]

For a condenser I had a 3' stainless section. I cut a hole to exit the cooling lines but later realized that was a pain in the ass so I patched it and exited them out a cone tip. The CSST is 3/8" and about three feet long. Yes it knocks down both burners at full tilt.

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Is this what they mean by broken pencil size stream? 10% mix water and feints running both burners cleaning run. 1/2 gallon about 5 minutes.

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[DAD300]

I like every thing about that...copper boiler and all stainless descending..yeah!

I'd say that will be the last Product Condenser you'll ever HAVE to make.

[Danespirit]

That's a nice rig Hound Dog..

+1 On that condenser DAD 300.

That monster should take anything a homedistiller could throw at it.
How much can you fill in her..?

[skow69]

You been talkin to Tim Taylor again?

[Hound Dog]

I like every thing about that...copper boiler and all stainless descending..yeah!

I'd say that will be the last Product Condenser you'll ever HAVE to make.

Thanks DAD. I have been working on the stainless descending. Next will be my LM head that is still copper. I have a start on it with a stainless liebig. Have to find a source for the fittings though. Still have copper to join them but that is for another thread. I will post it up soon.

[Hound Dog]

You been talkin to Tim Taylor again?

Har, har,har!

[Hound Dog]

That's a nice rig Hound Dog..

+1 On that condenser DAD 300.

That monster should take anything a homedistiller could throw at it.
How much can you fill in her..?

Thanks Dane.
The boiler is a bit over 19 gallons. It is the first thing I built a while back and has served me well. The size works pretty good. Fermenting in a 20 gallon Brute trash can with a little space at the top let's me rack off 3 five gallon buckets to clear. A 15 gallon charge is just fine in the boiler with plenty of head space.

[InglisHill]

That's cool man!

Looks like it strips like a $2 hooker!

[humbledore]

Very impressive Hound Dog. That is just sweet as hell. Can you show any more detail on your liebig, where you say you exit it out the cone tip? And on your process with the 20G fermenter, do you do any squeezing? Or just rack off the clear and go?

[bearriver]

Wow, this is really awesome.

Great example of a stripping still.

[S-Cackalacky]

I bet if you stroke her real gentle, she would do a good spirit run.

[likker liker]

Now that Lulu a great stripper! She my kinda gal, sorry but I fell in love with you gal.

[Hound Dog]

Very impressive Hound Dog. That is just sweet as hell. Can you show any more detail on your liebig, where you say you exit it out the cone tip? And on your process with the 20G fermenter, do you do any squeezing? Or just rack off the clear and go?

The liebig I built is for my boka column. That is for another thread soon. On this I just took an over long coil of CSST the full 3 foot length of the 2" SS pipe. You see the hole I cut in the first pic with the piece leaning against my workbench? Well I thought I could feed it out that hole as inserted it. No go. So I patched the hole with stainless sheet and silver solder and just cut a hole in a reducer and slid it down the CSST. Being at the end it does not have to seal like your reflux condenser. Here's a pic, you can see the patch.

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As for the fermenters, one is a regular Rubbermaid 20G trashcan the other is a Rubbermaid 20G feed container from Tractor Supply. I like the feed container because it is opaque and you can see a bit of what is going on inside. It even has a cool line to tell you how much sweet feed to put in for a batch! I don't imagine that was the purpose but it seems that way. Anyway, just cereal washes and stuff. No sqeezing.

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Cheerios half way there. Makes a smooth vodka.

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Racked and clearing....

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Yes SC, after I rack off this batch of Cheerios I want to make some UJSSM perhaps with a bit of oats in it to add some smooth flavor and try double pot stilling it. I have got to get better at pot stilling.

[cranky]

Great setup Hound dog. Very impressive and innovative.

[MoonBreath]

I like that ..Its badass ..Some header (thermal) wrap would make it rad.