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This looks safe.....

People talk crap on vevor and this bomb in waiting is out there. Looks like they watched to much Moonshiners and cooked this up lol

That’s crazy.

There’s a ball valve on the “slobber box” (not a thumper) when closed turns the whole thing into a bomb. And if the valve is open, it’s highly likely any vapors that may progress to the slobber box will vent straight into the room (where the gas stove is burning). Yet another fire hazard.

All that, plus glassware for the pressure vessels. Damn, I can’t imagine anyone being that careless (and stupid).
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What could go wrong!! LMAO. Scarry stuff..

still_stirrin wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 3:59 pm That’s crazy.

There’s a ball valve on the “slobber box” (not a thumper) when closed turns the whole thing into a bomb.

I was going to laugh about the Baine Marie until you pointed out the valve.
Broken glass shrapnel.

On a side note.
Why is the condenser located where it is?
That would make the pint jar in the skillet a collection jar.
Why have a valve on the collection jars vent

I need to take another shot or two and rethink what the hell I'm seeing.

Sadly the Internet these days is littered with cheap arse shit stills as well as the sort of rubbish that is in that photo.
Ytube, Facebook Distiller groups and many other sites are knee deep in them.
Long term when there are enough accidents it can only be bad for our hobby and should be discouraged at every opportunity.

Well that’s one way to create a frag grenade

Why the F is that burner on?!

dcwilson303 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:13 pm This looks safe.....

Holy sh!te!

shadylane wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:40 pm
On a side note.
Why is the condenser located where it is?

That would make the pint jar in the skillet a collection jar…

Well, if you look even closer, you’ll see there are not plumbing lines to that “condenser” you’re asking about. So, that would be a “vapor line” which feeds into the “slobber box”, ie - there is no down tube in it, so it is NOT a “thumper”.

If there is something in the boiler (sitting in a baine-marie), it is boiling all the way through the system to the (opened) ball valve on the discharge of the slobber box. If that valve was closed —> it’s a BOMB.
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Maybe their just having a yard sale and that's how they put everything together for the pic.

I've looked at something like this (with an active condenser and lab grade materials) with a vacuum line hooked up to the receiving end to pull vacuum. For low-temp distilling of gin and similar with sensitive botanicals...

I wouldn't use mason jars..

Cheers,
jonny