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alcohol still?
#13990121 - 02/19/11 01:49 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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hey guys
i was thinking about buying one of these #
but i was thinking about making one instead its just i dont know what i should use as a heating base
would a rice cooker work, or would it get to hot?
im really not that educated in the still art, so any advice would be perfect thanks
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Re: alcohol still? [Re: jokefox]
#13991874 - 02/19/11 07:54 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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really there's not much to a still, a condenser made of copper coils inside something that allows you to cool them, essentially take a 3/8 soft copper tube and wrap it around a 1" copper pipe, use a piece of 2" copper pipe, 2 caps and a couple of hose barbs that can be soldered on, drill a hole in the caps large enough for the 3/8 tube to pass through but small enough to be soldered in place, drill 2 holes for the hose barbs and solder them on
with your coil, slip the cap's hole over the pig tail on the coil, slide it into the 2" pipe and fit the cap into place, slip the other cap on and solder all the connections to make it water tight
you've now just made a Graham Condenser and it should look a little like this
(on the left, only with tubes coming out instead of ground glass)

and for heating.... electric hot plate
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I have my eye on making a vavled reflux maybe 3foot column and a smaller keg. For the boiler
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Re: alcohol still? [Re: jokefox]
#13999311 - 02/21/11 01:37 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have a couple keg boilers made with water tank heaters. The columns are all triclover clamp fit to the keg fitting so its super easy to change stuff up. I can put a long column on or a short one then the condensers are threaded and everything can get switched around for potstill style or a tall reflux column with a coil that just replaces the plain cap on the top.
Funny thing is I don't drink for shit but just keep alive a family tradition. There is a older still in pieces that I would love to reassemble but I will when I move to MI. I would like to get fuel license though. I would feel safer.
As for the guy in the video and all his products they seem meh to me. For what that think costs I bet you could have a full keg set up cranking out better shit.
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Re: alcohol still? [Re: argg]
#13999327 - 02/21/11 01:44 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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you are right that in the video costs 200$
or i could biuld a reflux still for under 100$ http://www.moonshine-still.com/page22.htm go to the start of it ,
theres a really nice valved reflux still that costs 70$ to make the column , and it puts out 90 some %
going to be fun
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Re: alcohol still? [Re: jokefox]
#13999385 - 02/21/11 02:05 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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fuck that site. homedistiller.org is tons better hell any other google hit is better then that site with that shitty one. People on homedistiller will get you going with tons of teks and pics. They make all sorts of crazy contraptions there.
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Re: alcohol still? [Re: argg]
#14001486 - 02/21/11 01:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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ill check it out thanks
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Re: alcohol still? [Re: jokefox]
#14046238 - 02/28/11 11:51 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Go with the bokabob still on the homedistillers website. It's extremely easy to build, even if you have no experience. It can be utilized as either a highly efficient reflux (95%)still when using copper scrubbers, or these can be removed and the still can be used as a basic pot still when attempting to distill flavored alcohol.
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Re: alcohol still? [Re: Therian]
#14046314 - 03/01/11 12:12 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I already know what I'm doing it's going to be full effort in the boiler
double boiler for absinthe
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