Parrot bits

[crow]

I've never seen one of these in real life so thought I'd post this before soldering it together and find out if its all good . The stem is 3/4 , feed and outlet tubes are 1/4 obviously I haven't sorted out a stand yet but a block of wood with hole in it will do me for now

[MacStill]

I would use 1" for the main body, most say using 3/4 causes the alcometer to bob a bit due to hydraulic effect ;-)

[crow]

rats because the 3/4 to 1" is allready brazed on :angry-banghead: me rushing

[MacStill]

Use it for something else ;-)

Make the main body around 200mm long and use a short alcometer so your parrots readings are more abrupt during changes in your run, the ones I make hold around 80 to 90ml of fluid.... ;-)

[crow]

:handgestures-thumbupleft: yep , will do if this one turns out to be a pain Ill do one out of inch I guess need the soldering practice anyway . 1" :roll: got 1 piece 600mm or so long 50mtrs or more of 3/4 and 30 odd mtrs of 1 1/4 :-s tight arsed bastard I am

[YHB]

I do not know if your 1/4" pipe is inside or outside diameter. If its outside diameter it is too small. If its inside diameter it may be too small.

My first go at a parrot used 8mm (5/16") outside diameter tube and it did not work too well. the surface tension was too great and the thing stopped flowing.

Try your input line before you braze it into the body, it may save you having to rework it like me - I changed mine to 10mm (3/8") outside diameter an everything worked fine.

Toodlepip

Brian
(Frank's Uncle)

[crow]

Yeah can see that being a problem with a stripping run . my refux runs slow and should be fine with it . I have bigger pipe might have to make a separate parrot for the pot still , wont worry me could use the practice anyway but very good point ;-)

[YHB]

I think you have it the wrong way round.

The slower the flow the worse the problem, a strong flow will break the surface tension.

With a slow flow, it just tends to form an airlock in the tube.

Brian

[MacStill]

Toodlepip

Brian
(Frank's Uncle)

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[R-sole]

The tricky bit that people don't get with a parrot is in the outlet. You need to have that large reducer with the outlet hole in it slide over the top of the 1" pipe so the distillate fills the pipe and then flows over the lip into the reducer and out the outlet. Thats what allows you to see the level. You're pics are so tiny i can't see whether you 'got' that bit.

[crow]

yeah the inch is around 2mm higher then I was going to put the outlet lower to drain that resovoir so I should be able to sight across the top of the 3/4 to read the alcohmeter

[crow]

the top

[R-sole]

Good good, just checking.

[crow]

This is my first soft soldering with a torch its a roughy but tested it with water and it looks like a goer I had a copper filter in the intake receiver(for bugs and shit) but as YHB pointed out , to much surface tension ripped it out and all good , would have to be pissing out to be a hass . Might not be great for a stripping run that's all , suck it and see I guess

EDIT sorry about the size seem to have trouble enlarging need to play around a bit more :-D

[crow]

Ok started to make my second parrot , out of second hand shit just like the first. making a bigger one for the pot , Inch upright that looked like it got tangled in a rotary hoe and the next size up from 1/4 :-?? . I made the intake bowl from flattened 1 1/4 heated put on a socket and belted another socket in to it reheating and slowly reducing the size . Don't know if there's easier a way with the lack of mettle working tools but it worked anyhow , enjoying soldering with a torch bit different from the ions :-D

[SBB]

I made the intake bowl from flattened 1 1/4 heated put on a socket and belted another socket in to it reheating and slowly reducing the size . Don't know if there's easier a way with the lack of mettle working tools but it worked anyhow , enjoying soldering with a torch bit different from the ions :-D

looks like you are in trouble to me mate................Aint copper a wonderfull thing once ya start to play around with it a bit :D ........Its so bloody forgiving....the perfect metal for beginers.............I will never understand why anyone would want to use stainless.

DevelopingABrassFetishSBB

[crow]

I made the intake bowl from flattened 1 1/4 heated put on a socket and belted another socket in to it reheating and slowly reducing the size . Don't know if there's easier a way with the lack of mettle working tools but it worked anyhow , enjoying soldering with a torch bit different from the ions :-D

looks like you are in trouble to me mate................Aint copper a wonderfull thing once ya start to play around with it a bit :D ........Its so bloody forgiving....the perfect metal for beginers.............I will never understand why anyone would want to use stainless.

DevelopingABrassFetishSBB

Yeah but mine's not really copper porn well I guess you could compare it to those sick as bondage ugly as fuck junkie granny flicks . Chippy out of his depth and lovin it plus I get a kick out of grabbing the most rooted banged up oxidized pieces of crap and making it look marginally better . fits in with my scroogey nature well ;-)

[crow]

Blast first parrot is shit well for the pot still anyway :handgestures-thumbdown: meter fits to snug causing back pressure and the reading is all fucked up pull it away from the outlet and it reads fine fark et . geez now I need to fine a reducer that will allow inch pie to slide through :doh:

[crow]

gee f#ckin wizz am I having fun with this parrot couldn't find a fitting anywhere in this whole f#*ked up city I got down the road that will let inch pipe slide through , plumber reckons their wankers because they've got em so he gives me a 1 1/4 to 1/2 just cut it to fit . did it bit tricky , drilled a whole for the 8mm outlet tried to solder it on . can NOT get ANY thing to stick to this fucking fitting no matter what every type of flux I've got . the first parrot was a breeze , man o man this one is a Carton United NT

[MacStill]

Just get a 1" to 3/4 reducer and use a round file or dremel tool to file the bur out, too fucken easy & you dont go ape in the shed yelling CUNT :laughing-rolling: