Onion build for £50

[Oroku saki]

Hi there everybody,
So I’ve been thinking and would love to hear your feedback . So I’ve come across a copper pitcher/jug/vase (see bottom picture) that is a foot in diameter at the widest point and got thinking that this would make a perfect onion cap attachment for my modular still! What I’m planning on doing is putting a 4” or 6” triclamp ferrule on the bottom and then take a spout from a old copper teapot as the goose neck (bend the end where it goes to horizontal back around and chop the end off) that would come straight out the top of the vase bulb without the top part on it (cut either just above or below that smaller bulb on the neck) where I’ll attach another appropriately sized triclamp ferrule or KF ferrule. What you guys think? And has anyone ever done this? I’ve been looking at a lot of old copper stuff like pitchers, vases, couldrons, teapots etc and there’s a lot of good stuff there that can be utilised , it’s good thick hand beaten pure copper so I can’t see a problem with it. I’ll remove any solder already on it as well as any brass if any. This will be going on a 50L keg with heating elements in it. Not sure if this would be too big but while over in Croatia I saw some with enormous onion caps and as I’m interested in brandy then I’d love a nice onion cap. Also if you check out how much these things run as far as cost, your looking around £500 for one and this thing is £15 so by the time I’ve added ferrules, thermowell for probe etc. it’ll cost me 50 bucks to get done and I’ll have a pure copper triclamp onion with thermometer

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