Building the "Right" Still

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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Whiskyaugogo » Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:53 pm

MacStill wrote:your still is now unbuilt and awaiting dispatch, hope you like bubble wrap :D


Bubble wrap for the Bubbler!!!! :laughing-rolling:

Will post some better pics of my finished Keg. Plenty of room for the clamp S & L :smile:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby MacStill » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:02 pm

you reckon Bunnings is frustrating, wait till you have to deal with mrs macs bubble wrapping :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby 1 2many » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:09 pm

MacStill wrote:you reckon Bunnings is frustrating, wait till you have to deal with mrs macs bubble wrapping :laughing-rolling:


And no knives that's cheating. :teasing-neener:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Whiskyaugogo » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:16 pm

1 2many wrote:
MacStill wrote:you reckon Bunnings is frustrating, wait till you have to deal with mrs macs bubble wrapping :laughing-rolling:


And no knives that's cheating. :teasing-neener:


It will be like Xmas!!! Unwrapping my new toy very carefully and definitely no knives!!! :happy-partydance:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby SBB » Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:00 pm

Whiskyaugogo wrote:and definitely no knives!!!

You thing so ? You have yet to encounter the Bubble Wrap Queens wrapping. :))
Id still be just looking at my parts through the bubble wrap if I hadn't used a knife.
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby 1 2many » Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:03 pm

SBB wrote:
Whiskyaugogo wrote:and definitely no knives!!!

You thing so ? You have yet to encounter the Bubble Wrap Queens wrapping. :))
Id still be just looking at my parts through the bubble wrap if I hadn't used a knife.


:)) :)) I know me too. :shifty:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Kimbo » Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:13 pm

MacStill wrote:you reckon Bunnings is frustrating, wait till you have to deal with mrs macs bubble wrapping :laughing-rolling:

Yeah..Mrs Mac wanted a shrink wrap machine bet Mac was too scared that he would wake up one morning looking like a packet of IGA Sausages :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Whiskyaugogo » Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:42 pm

Ok, here some updated pics of my build. Electro polishing has been put on hold for a while so I will clean it up for first use (following the cleaning regime of vinegar and a sacrificial run etc). Apologies Mac on the thermo but it was free with the new keg. :D
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Zak Griffin » Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:26 pm

Looks the goods mate!

I would've put the thermometer on the same side as the fill port, personally, but I'm not sure how your distillery is set up :)

Looks pretty tight between the ports, hopefully there's room there for a clamp!
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Mrs Mac » Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:57 pm

Don't listen to them mate...Mac always walks away mumbling when i start pulling out the wrapping, he thinks i use to much but I would rather spend a couple of extra bucks on bubble wrap so your shinny stainless goods turn up undamaged. :D


SBB wrote:
Whiskyaugogo wrote:and definitely no knives!!!

You thing so ? You have yet to encounter the Bubble Wrap Queens wrapping. :))
Id still be just looking at my parts through the bubble wrap if I hadn't used a knife.


Just be glad it's wrapped in bubble wrap, if i wrapped it in newspaper you wouldn't of been able to see through it :teasing-neener:


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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Whiskyaugogo » Sun Aug 03, 2014 9:46 pm

So, been a bit slack posting some pics of my new "awesomeness", been to busy distilling :happy-partydance:

Anyway, here is some basic pics, will take some better ones soon showing plumbing, layout etc;

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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Yummyrum » Sun Aug 03, 2014 10:13 pm

Whiskyaugogo wrote:So, been a bit slack posting some pics of my new "awesomeness", been to busy distilling :happy-partydance:


Yeah... too fricken right you have :D .....but you made up for it good :handgestures-thumbupleft:


Happy days Whiskyaugogo :happy-partydance:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby 1 2many » Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:07 pm

Well Whiskyaugogo you stuck true to topic and built the "right"still, very nice have fun. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Building the "Right" Still

Postby Wobblyboot » Thu Aug 15, 2019 7:41 pm

Sad to see he became a cheating scumbag :naughty:
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