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sherriff Buffoerd pusser
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wanting to build a shotgun for inline are tubes open or closed at top. I think open but not sure by drawings in compleat distiller.If they were closed would still not be under pressure?
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TRANSPLANTED HILLBILLY
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Lets see if i can make this make since to ya.
ya got your outer tube/jacket, somewere between 3" to 8"
ya got 2 plates ya clamp together and drill full of holes for your internal tubes. but no more holes than ya have tubes obviously. Internal tube size is up to you as well.
soldier those 2 plates and your internal tubes in place centered up in outer tube. Leave an inch or so on each end of that assembly.
you need to rig water flow in and out somewhere between the 2 plates you just soldiered in.
next either purchase caps for the size outer tube you have selected, or make the out of the same plate you made the internal caps from.
next you need to provide for vapor in at the top, and liquid out at the bottom.
The theory of operation is,
Water runs all around the outside of all of those tubes inside. Vapor runs through and condenses on the inside of all those tubes.
So all in all you got onehellofa vapor expansion chamber for your likker to run through. And if that thing dont knock down all your vapor you got a problem.
Hope you can now see how this thing is still open to atmosphere. I would think mounting it in a tipped manner and drilling a vent hole in the bottom cap opposite of your offtake hole may be benefitial.
I think there cool as hell, but have no real use for one as a single condenser coil does a fine job for me. Maybe if it was made of glass so i could see what was going on inside.
ya got your outer tube/jacket, somewere between 3" to 8"
ya got 2 plates ya clamp together and drill full of holes for your internal tubes. but no more holes than ya have tubes obviously. Internal tube size is up to you as well.
soldier those 2 plates and your internal tubes in place centered up in outer tube. Leave an inch or so on each end of that assembly.
you need to rig water flow in and out somewhere between the 2 plates you just soldiered in.
next either purchase caps for the size outer tube you have selected, or make the out of the same plate you made the internal caps from.
next you need to provide for vapor in at the top, and liquid out at the bottom.
The theory of operation is,
Water runs all around the outside of all of those tubes inside. Vapor runs through and condenses on the inside of all those tubes.
So all in all you got onehellofa vapor expansion chamber for your likker to run through. And if that thing dont knock down all your vapor you got a problem.
Hope you can now see how this thing is still open to atmosphere. I would think mounting it in a tipped manner and drilling a vent hole in the bottom cap opposite of your offtake hole may be benefitial.
I think there cool as hell, but have no real use for one as a single condenser coil does a fine job for me. Maybe if it was made of glass so i could see what was going on inside.
If it was easy everybody would do it.
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hornedrhodent
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Re: shotgun
For something like a bokakob the vapour would rise through the tubes and condense on them with the distillate running back down. There would be no need to close in the end.="sherriff Buffoerd pusser"
wanting to build a shotgun for inline are tubes open or closed at top. I think open but not sure by drawings in compleat distiller.If they were closed would still not be under pressure?
In a pot still the cluster of ends would be closed in to collect the distillate but still open to the atmosphere where the distillate comes out, just like a leibig or a coil.