The second wife build

Perforated & bubble cap plated columns

Re: The second wife build

Postby bluc » Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:13 pm

A&O wrote:Woodduck, does the perf plate in your packed section restrict much vapour flow? And does it have any issues allowing fluid return down to the top plate?

Or any problem with it creating a bath :think:
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Re: The second wife build

Postby woodduck » Sun Jan 14, 2018 3:49 pm

They're 5-6mm holes so they won't create a bath. I doubt it would restrict much, couldn't be any worse than your packing. Make the holes bigger if you want.
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Re: The second wife build

Postby bluc » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:11 pm

Awesome :handgestures-thumbupleft: i have a steamer that creates a bath shits me to tears may drill the holes bigger :-B
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Re: The second wife build

Postby Doubleuj » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:23 pm

The holes in my FSD packed section look like 3mm, and I don’t think it causes a bath, no noticeable change in reflux rate when I ran it.
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Re: The second wife build

Postby bluc » Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:23 pm

Ok cool
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Re: The second wife build

Postby hillzabilly » Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:38 pm

I had a cross of 3mm stainless rod (like a telescopic gun sight) tiged at the bottom of the packed section to retain packing ,I use copper mesh rolls tho,I did intend to make a plate with holes to drop in later ifn I needed,for other types of packing but I never ended up makeing one,as I use the packed section empty sometimes for stripping and wanted little to no restriction ,my opinion is ifn the holes are too small it could cause the packed section ta flood esspecially ifn ya useing a lot of power,or if you have overpacked the colomn.cheers hillzabilly ;-)
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Re: The second wife build

Postby db1979 » Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:06 pm

I flared the blockhead joins on both the 2" take off and the 4" pipe such that they had overlap of copper from both sides and used soft solder. Photo here
http://www.aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=10938#p188873

Forgive the ugly solder job.

The joint has about 10mm of overlap from both pieces so heaps of strength even though it's soft solder.
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Re: The second wife build

Postby A&O » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:20 am

Please excuse my naivety DB, how did you flare the 4”? I’ve been thinking about how to do it for a couple of days and drawn a blank. There’s gotta be a trick I’m not seeing, but my fabrication experience is in shed building and race cars, so fabing a column is a huge learning experience that I’m enjoying so much.
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Re: The second wife build

Postby db1979 » Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:26 am

Similar to how I flared my pipe ends. I used a bit of flat bar that had a 10 mm slot cut into it and slowly levered it out. I cut the hole smaller than it needed to be. You've gotta be careful that you don't lever it too fast as the copper tears. The 10 mm slot was wide enough to go over the copper. Most of the work was in forming up the flare to the right shape so that both pieces met correctly otherwise the solder wouldn't take. I also clamped the two pieces when soldering too to make sure any gaps were minimised.
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Re: The second wife build

Postby A&O » Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:53 am

Thanks DB
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Re: The second wife build

Postby A&O » Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:48 pm

Big sense of achievement. I have finally finished a piece of my bubbler. It’s only little & simple but something is finished finally. Here’s the end cap funnel spout, cleaned up on the wire brush. Just needs a citric bath then it’s usable. :-D
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Re: The second wife build

Postby woodduck » Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:16 pm

Nice mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: looks clean as.

One step at a time and you'll be there before you know it.
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Re: The second wife build

Postby hillzabilly » Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:40 pm

Lookin good A an O,ya said you like ta work on race car's ,is that for speedway or the drags ,used ta know a guy called stephen dekker he took me around to the Kennerdies place and I got ta have a real good look at their Gt's ,totally awsome cars ,there must be good money in fishing,do not get too worried about looks its function that is more important.cheers hillzabilly :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: The second wife build

Postby A&O » Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:13 pm

Yeah, back a few years me & a neighbour built a LH Torry with 400 Chevy that we got to high 8’s. Just handled like a bitch because of the short wheelbase and short wheely bars. After we had our fun with that one, I threw my hand at a speedway street sedan & demo cars. So looks have never been priority for me, has always been function first. Since kids, no more racing cars, so next build after the still is gonna be an old dodge Ute that I’ll fill full of batteries and convert to electric. Paint it pretty and put a nice interior to be a daily driver and charge it from the wall. Living in Albany don’t need more than 200km range. That’s the dream. Dreams make life worth living. :D
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Re: The second wife build

Postby hillzabilly » Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:08 pm

I did like the unofficial drags down the lower Denmark rd,but the boys in blue put a stop ta that just befor I left and used the light tree at the blue light disco's,my baby was a real XC cobra 5.8 manual with all the goodies was a sad few months after parting company with that one,I used ta get into the Attwell park speedway free when delivering pies and stuff from the bakery,parked in the wrong spot the first time and fairly got sprayed ,the caravan demos rocked and allways put a smile on my face,keep up the good work mate.cheers hillzabilly ;-)
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Re: The second wife build

Postby A&O » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:19 am

Thanks to Swede & Thelegion for the templates for my condensers.

https://www.aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=646
http://aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=7553

I spent 15min last night blowing up to correct sizes for my 4” RC & 2” PC.

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I cut out the templates & used one of the kids new glue sticks for school to glue onto the copper pieces I’m going to use. The Thelegion template although for his bubble plates in his glasser are perfect positions for my 7x 3/4 RC tubes.

Now to drill them out and get soldering.

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Re: The second wife build

Postby A&O » Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:30 pm

In between miss 8 saying Daaad he’s being mean to me and mr 5 saying Daaad she’s not listening to me, I found enough time to drill the PC end caps and mock it up to make sure there’s enough space for all the 1/2” pipes in the 2” casing, all looking pretty good.
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Re: The second wife build

Postby Doubleuj » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:21 pm

Nah mate, not looking good at all... ITS LOOKING GREAT!!! :dance:
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Re: The second wife build

Postby Sam. » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:50 am

Doubleuj wrote:Nah mate, not looking good at all... ITS LOOKING GREAT!!! :dance:


:text-imwithstupid: looks the goods :clap:
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Re: The second wife build

Postby woodduck » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:17 am

Looking good :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Keep it up
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