4" build
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:41 am
I have found remodelling my basement and already owning a 2" VM that getting around to finishing my new still always seems to get put on the back burner. So far I have cut a hole in the top of the keg and welded a 4" ferrule to the top, cut two holes in the side toward the bottom one for a 1" drain and the other for a 240 v heating element. Welded the fittings for both the drain and heating element. I purchased a 4" x 50" stainless steel pipe with ferrules on both ends that I think was used in the dairy industry.
Yesterday I went up to my old school that I retired from 5 years ago to use the CNC machine to cut the parts for the dephlagmater but the problem was they changed software so I spent most of the morning going through tutuorials to learn how to run the machine. I cut parts for both my dephlagmater and Mash Rookies that he is building for his father. This weekend he is having a Saint Patricks party that I am attending and taking parts down to him. He is going to build my shotgun for me out of acrylic and add the twists like his still has.
The following is one picture of the CNC process, I will post more of the parts as I get them cleaned up.
Yesterday I went up to my old school that I retired from 5 years ago to use the CNC machine to cut the parts for the dephlagmater but the problem was they changed software so I spent most of the morning going through tutuorials to learn how to run the machine. I cut parts for both my dephlagmater and Mash Rookies that he is building for his father. This weekend he is having a Saint Patricks party that I am attending and taking parts down to him. He is going to build my shotgun for me out of acrylic and add the twists like his still has.
The following is one picture of the CNC process, I will post more of the parts as I get them cleaned up.