Hi and lost down the garden path

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Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby Jezza93 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:41 pm

Hi all been long time reader first time poster, I have been lead down the craft path by a member on here and havnt looked back.
It all started with a beer keg that I welded fitting too and made a burner stand and brought a alcoengine boka head and ran that for a couple of runs but had pretty high product temp so I built a liebeg condenser (jacketed) for the Prouduct to get temps down, I have now started a new build and building a collum head which I will put up a built thread.
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby bluc » Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:49 pm

Welcome love build threads round here :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby Jezza93 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:55 pm

Boiler with alcoengine
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby Jezza93 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:59 pm

Lieberg product cooler
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby Jezza93 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:09 pm

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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby RC Al » Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:50 pm

Welcome mate
Nice repurposing of the keg top collar there :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Have a look at replacing the brass in your system :think:
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby woodduck » Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:55 pm

Hi Mate, welcome :greetings-waveyellow:

Looks like your pretty handy with the tools so a build should be no problem at all.

Good luck with it.
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby Jezza93 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:16 pm

Thanks guys and what do you mean replacing the brass ??? RA Al :think:

Thanks woodduck and yeah I put the start of the build up already in reflux
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby Sam. » Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:44 pm

G'day mate, one of the discussions on brass here
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby RC Al » Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:52 pm

The tap is (i believe) chrome plated brass and the connectors to your liebig are brass, as is the column to triclamp top connector. Its on the forums list of dangerous materials due to lead content, especially in cheaply made Chinese stills

Im not trying to bust ya nuts :handgestures-thumbupleft: Just something to recognise and as most of it is easy to change out, worth doing for the long term - the valve is better off changed to a SS needle valve for better control to boot

SS unions with copper bushes work fine

Another typical brass conversation
http://aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopic ... 17&t=10672
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby Jezza93 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 5:15 pm

Thanks for the heads up

I brought the alcoengine head from kegland so it should be all copper and the valve should s/s and the connector is stainless and the pipe inside is hard draw copper as well the tri clamp plate is 316 stainless that I machined
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Re: Hi and lost down the garden path

Postby RC Al » Thu Oct 24, 2019 6:30 pm

Ok so please dont take this an an attack or being nasty :greetings-waveyellow: , but we have seen these stills before... :-B
https://www.roadtechmarine.com.au/3-8-m ... e/p/TPP324
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Look familiar? its a cheap generic chrome plated brass valve
The fittings either side of it are brass as is the threaded bit for the output on the column (not much you can do about that one unfortunately)
The threaded bit on the bottom of the column attached to the SS plate is brass (major work to replace with a ss ferule)

So those two are a bit hard to fix, but the valve and the fittings are pretty straight forward :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Im on the fence about the threaded bit out of the end of the liebig, SS? i would like to be able to buy threadded copper like that, it would have an awesome surface area

Just for reference, Kegland dont care if you have brass in your system :cool:
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