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Prairiepiss wrote:Turbo stomper junk.

You could build one like that. But leave off the worthless accident waiting to happen jar thump thing. Oh and bending the column like that won't do much for you. And and and. Just do yourself a favor. Have a real good look around here. At what others use and build. Before you find stuff like this. It can be done much better then that. And there are plenty of examples and info around here to help you do it.

Edited. Is cants spells.

Prairiepiss wrote: Oh and bending the column like that won't do much for you.

RumBrewer wrote:

Prairiepiss wrote: Oh and bending the column like that won't do much for you.

The hell it wont!
That hunk of crap's gonna tip right over on ya if you don't angle to column to help balance it somehow!

Ha! That said, I'd sure like to see one-dem glass thumpermajigs in action if anyone has video!

handymanherb wrote:OK I have the double thumper and we have made four runs since Christmas, I did silicone the lids to the copper after the water run, as the jars would slip down off the copper, Using silicone top and bottom of the lid kept the jars in place and made it easy to dump the jars as necessary.
Please explain dumping of jars? The jars shouldn't be removed while it is hot. And silicone is not good to be used for this.

So I haven't seen any danger except you need a rag to empty the jars as they are hot, but it is putting out good product, will even be better as soon as I get a ferment going with backset, I missed that some where, I may have read it and confused the backset with the faints, but now I have seen the light.

The still is a four gallon and puts out a quart and a half of 85%, 170 proof and catches most of the nasty stuff in the thumpers till you are running heavy tails after the run is over and your collecting faints.
What do you mean collecting the bad stuff? Thumpers are a second distillation point. Not a nasty stuff collector? And again why are you dumping it?


For being just a sweet whiskey, it is still better than I have seen what I have seen for sale, my nephew was buying the apple pie crap and thought he was buying something, my brother and I couldn't even drink it, that why we ordered the still, now the nephew knows he was over paying for crap.

I don't have a video of it running yet but it is easy to run, you fire it up and when it warms up it will start filling the first thumper after it heats up that jar and has enough liquid for it to bubble the second jar gets a little in it, you have the water jacket filled but the pump not running yet, after it start producing you turn the pump on, turn the fire down till it stops, then slowly turn it up till you get a drip-drip-drip rate going.

You collect 50 ml of the good stuff coming out, when you get 50 ml you dump the thumpers and throw the first stuff collected in them away, put the 50 ml in the first thumper and you will be back producing with in minutes, the foreshots and the heads stay in the thumpers, that's what you threw away the first dump, they smell real bad, then you start collecting at 100 ml at a time to check the alc%.
Holy moly. Really. Please take the time to research what you are doing. You just mentioned so many things that are wrong and unsafe in this paragraph. Please please do the needed research. And forget everything the crook turbo stomper guy told you.


We run into the tails till we start dropping off alc% around 150 or the tails get a stronger taste than we want and the rest goes to faints, you don't have to adjust anything after you get it producing, the temp will raise as the alc is removed, I changed to an electric temp guage and runs at 190 till close to the end.

Seems to be a great still for beginners, and I sipped plenty of the 170 stuff we made, goes down nice, tastes good for corn mash we are using without the backset,7 has a slight burn.

My other nephew made a wash using sugarcane, it must have been closer to rum,it had a cleaner taste, it would warm you up and the sight burn would go lower in the stomach.

But we are having fun learning, after reading for months, it nice to have something to show and drink.

But if anybody asked if they should make or buy a Turbo Thumper right now, I would say, go for it.
I would say go look at the 23 page thread about what a crook he is. And don't bother even thinking about buying one of those unsafe waky pieces of junk.

I would like to know if their a real safety reason,

handymanherb wrote:Do you have a link to them???, I haven't found it yet in the 1000's of pages to read, I would like to know if their a real safety reason, I'm reading all I can find on Turbo Stompers, on page 3 of it and still reading

handymanherb wrote:usage of plastics/ synthetics in distilling

I don't see either on my still, unless your talking about the foam tape, but that is easy to replace with a flour paste, but even if I wanted to order a mile high milk jug still, there are out of stock right now.

But we ate still trying to figure out what to build next

Silicone is not non reactive with other products after cured. Hot alcohol vapor is an extremely powerful solvent that will leach toxic compounds from the silicon depositing the toxins into the alcohol sprits.

mtdew_mn wrote:

.....Silicon itself is rather inert.....

mtdew_mn wrote:.....You do know that silicone is what glass is made out of, don't you?.....