Russ's bubbler

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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:27 pm

Haha probably, hoping to drill them out tomorrow, should be interesting.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby woodduck » Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:11 am

db1979 wrote:I think you're over-thinking it mate :teasing-neener:


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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:07 pm

1 down 4 to go.

Downcomer hole is a smidgen too large, gotta check my measurements, no matter, this will work, might lose a couple of holes.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby db1979 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:46 pm

Nice. They make mine look amateurish :shifty:
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby woodduck » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:15 pm

Flash as Harry mate. Just get a hammer and tap around the edge of the hole that is too large and it will shrink the hole a bit. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Sat Sep 22, 2018 7:52 pm

So as per db's and a couple of other mates comments I changed to having the downcomer liquid lock above the plates, making more room for drilling holes.

I still didn't go crazy on the number, I have 344 holes, and this time I took out the downcomer area off the total plate area so my hole percentage of plate area is now sitting at 8.8 percent, and the holes are spaced a bit more nicely.

I also brought the downcomer hole in a bit towards the centre to give a bit more room from the side of the 4" inside wall, so the liquid lock cap clears.

Downcomer hole is a tight fit now, all that remains is to make another 4.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Mr Tinker » Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:56 pm

I reckon that's a definite improvement on the first one.
Might not make a huge difference, but every little improvement like that goes towards making a still that is easy to run, pumps out top quality product and that you can be proud of to boot.
It's looking awesome mate, you're not far off making bubbles now.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:29 am

Cheers Mr T, I wasn't going to worry too much about the plate/hole percentages but after Woodduck gave me the heads up on the search our site option I found a lot of good info and I thought I may as well use it, though I had to brush up on my basic maths a bit haha.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:16 pm

First plate off the mark, not prettied up yet, still making the rest.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby db1979 » Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:49 pm

Nice, they should work well :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby woodduck » Sun Sep 23, 2018 5:44 pm

Looking good mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:03 pm

Cheers WD and DB, I finished 4 plates/downcomers today, the fifth got drilled but there were issues finishing it, I had spent a lot of time on them today and I'd had enough by that stage, tomorrows another day.

Tested the downcomers under the tap and they handle an awful amount of flow without backing up, hopefully they will work as they should.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby dans.brew » Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:28 pm

Nice Russ :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Making these things sure does take some time, but its seriously worth it when you fire it up for the first time.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:04 pm

Cheers Dan, looking forward to seeing it in action, and sampling the results of course :)
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby j0sh2008 » Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:04 pm

Looks awsome mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

You will have it up and running in no time.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:41 pm

Thanks Josh, the plan was to have it done by Christmas, might actually happen.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby EziTasting » Thu Sep 27, 2018 4:20 pm

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I am always in awe of you who make their own still/boilers/etc as I don't get to do that at all (too busy) aaaand i have 5 thumbs on each hand ... seemingly! 8-}
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:22 pm

Maybe don't be in awe just yet, gotta run the thing yet haha!
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:56 pm

Not really progress but I did manage to clean up the parrot.
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Re: Russ's bubbler

Postby Russ » Sat Sep 29, 2018 2:59 pm

So now I need to trim the inside of the seals to sit around the plates, going to try setup like a router table, and manually spin the seals while pushing it against two dowel pins. Should be interesting but if it works it will be a much better finish than using a Stanley knife.

Also I stuffed up the bottom downcomer, since I have a reducer connecting the bottom t to the keg, the downcomer hits the side of that, ERG!!!

Ill probably put a 4" ferrule on the boiler eventually so no big deal, can use the bottom T as the riser, just means 4 plates not 5, and I only really made 5 as a backup in case one T didn't work for some reason.
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