Just Post a Pick of a Rig To NOT Make

[Warno]

Seen the one the "pros" are using on Moonshiners this year? I think it has 20 to 25 mason jars hanging from a frame.

I was going to screen shot this and post but you beat me to it. Lol

In one of the following episodes some of the guys were using shark bite fittings on their system. I'm not sure how everyone feels about that but I don't believe the rubber seals in those are rated for spirits.

[Farside]

OK I don't have a photo but for entertainment's sake I'll post a story about my first still build. It was the early 1980's. It was before the internet and I was 12.

I'd been at the library and found some books that had information on all sorts of things, distilling included. So I got to work in my parent's basement using a gallon glass jar as a boiling vessel and a coil of pvc tubing as the condenser. It worked, but the smell was pretty industrial.

I switched out the pvc piping for some copper and the results were much better. But after about 4 or 5 runs, the boiler cracked cleanly in half and spilled hot wash all over the concrete floor.

So I upgraded it to a pressure cooker and used rubber tube to connect lengths of copper tube together to connect the new boiler to a thumper made from an old pain can, and from the thumper to my worm. The first few runs tasted like paint mixed with rubber but that soon died away.

Thankfully my grandparents got word of what I was doing and financed me into a new build using all copper and stainless steel before I poisoned myself

[Kareltje]

So you now can start a thread of grandparents one should have!

[Boozewaves]

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plastic hoses aplenty , glass jar thumper , aluminium boiler , its not a picture but its a good example of what not to make

[jonnys_spirit]

Reminds me of the times I made gunpowder when I was a kid and amazingly kept all of my extremities...

Cheers!
-jonny

[Yonder]

Oh, damn, i did that too. Potassium chlorate and sugar makes a hell of a bang or a nice fountain. But I never used plastic tubing, I ain’t stupid!

[Teddysad]

it did actually work!

[tubbsy]

Just saw this on reddit...

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[Just 4 Fun]

Just saw this on reddit...

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Ahh yes the dreaded mason jar gin basket.

People see that shit on that dumb ass show “moonshiners” and think cause they do it, it must be ok......

My father in-law is one of those dumb asses no matter how much I advise against it.

[Victoria]

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plastic hoses aplenty , glass jar thumper , aluminium boiler , its not a picture but its a good example of what not to make

OH BUT WHAT A LOVELY CAT ! ! They obviously thought so too !

[Victoria]

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it did actually work!

What is the problem ? That was a commercially marketed still here. I used to own one.
You could use it as a pot or fill the tower with oversized marbles to create reflux.

[Swedish Pride]

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it did actually work!

What is the problem ? That was a commercially marketed still here. I used to own one.
You could use it as a pot or fill the tower with oversized marbles to create reflux.

The still is made of 90% plastic.
This forum does not allow plastic in stills

[Victoria]

And yet I have seen posts here installing the virtues of their use of galvanised containers ????

[Chucker]

Just cuz it worked and you got away with it don’t make it right. Hopefully you learned and moved on.

[cob]

And yet I have seen posts here installing the virtues of their use of galvanised containers ????

to substantiate that statement, post even 1 link to an established member making the claim that galvanized is OK

and I will apologize for thinking you are full of shit.

[Kareltje]

What does galvanised have to do with plastic?

[The Baker]

What does galvanised have to do with plastic?

They are both no-no's??
(Where they contact alcohol...?)

Geoff

[Dozingdruid]

This is a joke:


I use the Mason jar thumpers. Easy to make, cheap, readily available materials . Also, here's a photo of me on my way to the still:

[SpiritOf76]

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plastic hoses aplenty , glass jar thumper , aluminium boiler , its not a picture but its a good example of what not to make

I spent a year in Moscow my friends told me people used to get alcohol from spinning a big lump of rubber cement on a record player and adding salt to the rubber cement. there was some other method using x-ray plates i forget how they got booze from that but they had an expression for drinking it like 'rolling the bones' or something. by those standards this rig is way safe. wish i had pictures of the record player and x-ray rigs. make a good post here.