Tennessee Thumper Stills

[Mikey-moo]

These guys make stills with mason jar thumpers, and 3 times the copper pipe they really need.

Facebook appears to be plastered with pictures like this:

Don't even think about it.

If one of these shatters...

No... just.... no. It's not worth the risk.

[Still Life]

Just as the moonshine trade influenced stock car racing and eventually NASCAR,
this seems like "who can go bigger and most daring."

Most outrageous design, yet still functional, seems to pervade all hobbies.

Like those Guarachero boots.

Mine are bigger than yours

[Yummyrum]

Jeezus mikey ....thats a real worry aye. Can imagine the look on o'l mates face when a jar cracks while he's sucking on his Fag .

[Mikey-moo]

Jeezus mikey ....thats a real worry aye. Can imagine the look on o'l mates face when a jar cracks while he's sucking on his Fag .

You know how the Americans will interpret that sentence, right?

[Kareltje]

Jeezus mikey ....thats a real worry aye. Can imagine the look on o'l mates face when a jar cracks while he's sucking on his Fag .

Not only people from the USoA!

[Kareltje]

These guys make stills with mason jar thumpers, and 3 times the copper pipe they really need.

Facebook appears to be plastered with pictures like this:

Thumpers.jpg

Thumpers2.jpg

No... just.... no. It's not worth the risk.

I think they are beautiful! A real liquor organ (drankorgel).

Maybe not very efficient, but if one practices a bit, I bet you can make shows on them.

[Mikey-moo]

These guys make stills with mason jar thumpers, and 3 times the copper pipe they really need.

Facebook appears to be plastered with pictures like this:

Thumpers.jpg

Thumpers2.jpg

No... just.... no. It's not worth the risk.

I think they are beautiful! A real liquor organ (drankorgel).

Maybe not very efficient, but if one practices a bit, I bet you can make shows on them.

Hey I never said they didn't look cool. And like moths to a flame, the newbie distillers all seem to want to know how much they are.

Just not worth the risk imho.

[Pikey]

So how much are they Mikey ? Just out of curiosity

[okie]

I saw those and laughed out loud. Geeeeez

[Mikey-moo]

So how much are they Mikey ? Just out of curiosity

I couldn't bring myself to ask.

[chickenfeed]

Jeezus mikey ....thats a real worry aye. Can imagine the look on o'l mates face when a jar cracks while he's sucking on his Fag .

You know how the Americans will interpret that sentence, right?

we know what he means.

[TDick]

Can imagine the look on o'l mates face when a jar cracks while he's sucking on his Fag .

You know how the Americans will interpret that sentence, right?

we know what he means.

Am I on the right forum here?!?!?

Well, at least you didn't call us "Yanks" in that thread.
BB

[Tapeman]

Can imagine the look on o'l mates face when a jar cracks while he's sucking on his Fag .

You know how the Americans will interpret that sentence, right?

we know what he means.

Am I on the right forum here?!?!?

Well, at least you didn't call us "Yanks" in that thread.
BB

Right, we 'Yanks' would not think of sucking on a fag or getting 'pissed' in a bar for gear of getting beat up or thrown out. Though I might have pissed meself in a bar once way back...
Interesting contraption if not way over the top. Might have originated in Texas where everything is bigger. My 10 gallon pot would probably be empty before everything filled up and started snorting.

[Appalachian spirits]

Im from Tennessee and ive never seen a contraption like that or even heard of one. Using mason jars in whatever that "system" is speaks volumes about the creators doesnt it.
No idea about sucking fags or getting pissed in a bar but what i do know is this. In Appalachia you WILL take a beating for talking like that to people. Maybe us Tennessee hillbillys just arent as tolerent as the rest of the world.

[jb-texshine]

Me and the builder have agreed to dis agree bout them stills. He's sent me videos of them running and one micro distillery uses them.
I still don't trust them...

[aircarbonarc]

It's a cool design, but ditch the mason jars and go with an approved material. I actually want to try something like this one day if I ever get around to it.

[Shawnr0517]

Ok folks, Rick the owner is a great guy......... Has yet to have a mason jar fail as you know, they ARE made to be heated up (Canning). Not to mention they are tried and true at getting the highest proof possible out of the first run and not needing to do a stripping run because of the 4+ thump kegs that are built into the setup, not to mention infusing the products....... you couldn't ask for a better way possible. I was going to buy one and even paid deposit, shit come up on my end and had to forfeit money I paid for it but I would always vouch for rick and his products and if someone bad mouths them then you're ignorant to the product!!

[jon1163]

Ok folks, Rick the owner is a great guy......... Has yet to have a mason jar fail as you know, they ARE made to be heated up (Canning). Not to mention they are tried and true at getting the highest proof possible out of the first run and not needing to do a stripping run because of the 4+ thump kegs that are built into the setup, not to mention infusing the products....... you couldn't ask for a better way possible. I was going to buy one and even paid deposit, shit come up on my end and had to forfeit money I paid for it but I would always vouch for rick and his products and if someone bad mouths them then you're ignorant to the product!!

I don't think anyone's bashing the Stills per se I think they're just saying that it's not an approved material. Many people use mason jars another glass vessels as Thumpers without much issue but rules were set on this forum a long time ago that we would not promote certain materials for building, that's all.

[Swedish Pride]

Ok folks, Rick the owner is a great guy......... Has yet to have a mason jar fail as you know, they ARE made to be heated up (Canning). Not to mention they are tried and true at getting the highest proof possible out of the first run and not needing to do a stripping run because of the 4+ thump kegs that are built into the setup, not to mention infusing the products....... you couldn't ask for a better way possible. I was going to buy one and even paid deposit, shit come up on my end and had to forfeit money I paid for it but I would always vouch for rick and his products and if someone bad mouths them then you're ignorant to the product!!

even taking the glass out of the equation, it's a poor design at best, a shit load of heavy copper that don't need to be there.
I could build better with a few saladbowls...

[Mikey-moo]

Has yet to have a mason jar fail as you know, they ARE made to be heated up (Canning).

These jars are made for canning - true... but with canning the pressure is on the outside pushing in (at least until the temperature inside the jar reaches canning temp). Yes they are designed to take that pressure difference. Using them as a thumper, the pressure is on the inside pushing out, exactly where it's NOT designed to be, and because they're soda glass and not pyrex then it would be far too easy for a cooling line to come loose, spray a jar with cold water, and have thermal shock cause a crack or worse a shatter.

You say he's not had one fail to date. I genuinely hope that's true and for safety's sake I hope that remains true. But if it wasn't true, it would not be in his best interest to say so would it?

You can get the exact same results using proven safe materials - stainless or copper. The only difference being that they might not look as cool while running.

When you start rating aesthetics higher than safety, that's when I'll start disagreeing with you.

[Shawnr0517]

To each there own..

[LWTCS]

"Highest proof"??
Not without forced reflux.
Can push to about 87, but won't last for the duration of the run.

[JellybeanCorncob]

I can’t believe I read this whole thread. Geez!
I should have stopped after I laughed at the picture.

[Sunshineer]

Looks like a bomb waiting to blow to me

[Boda Getta]

That is the silliest damn thing I have ever seen!

BG

[Sunshineer]

Replace all that glass with stainless steel Mason Jars end of glass problem.

[Sunshineer]

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[Saltbush Bill]

The clever part about those stills is the design of them. Designed especially to part newbies and fools from their money.

[OtisT]

Replace all that glass with stainless steel Mason Jars end of glass problem.

replace all that glass with stainless and there is no value in that system. It becomes an overly complex, overly expensive major time suck. Otis

[Betljooce]

I used to think that stuff was really cool till I got to reading here. Found the site on FB, no going back ow.