Bubbler Summie

[Summie]

]Hey there everyone have been working on this 4" bubbler for a few months now, working when I can with what I have. I have done a lot of waiting for copper to arrive at the scrapers, mainly 5/8" was the hardest to come across. Anyway lets get on with it, I know every one knows what a pile of copper looks like so I going to skip them photos (because I didn't take them) and get straight in to building my modules, so I cut the 4" at work on the cold saw into 122mm sections x4. My plan at the time was to do an easy flange on both ends but some of that thread got lost in translation, had I read the thread again I would have realised that 6mm is enough to fold over because the 1/4 once flattened comes perfectly to size but I didn't listen (which has happened a few times though this build) so I ended up doing 8mm -10mm folds which was fine because at the time I decided that you didn't need to do easy flanges as it would be strong enough with out them, I still believe this but when you get the 4" clamps all that goes out the window as they will not clamp down at all and you can move the modules up and down....lol

More to come hold on a moment.

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Every thing is out of order cant work it out but more to come. :angry-banghead:

[dogbreath vodka]

Nice one Summie.
Keep at it
:handgestures-thumbupleft:
We always look in the background of any photo..... is that an LJ ?

DBV

[Summie]

So here are some more pics.

[Summie]

Hey there yeah is an LC Torana, just one of my other projects Ive had it for about 5 years, I hoping to have it in primer by the end of the year.

[Summie]

So I will get in to the cap making, was a very tedious job but worth it in the end.

[Summie]

So this is where it got trickly I had not yet thought of how to cut the slots, I ended up putting the angle grinder in the vice and used the cover as a rest to cut the 1mm slots around the cap in aprox 5mm intervals.

going to gym lots more to come.

[1 2many]

Hi summie your build is coming along real nice, you seem to be well organised and the pics are great well done.

Cheers :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[BackyardBrewer]

Great pix - good work. Good luck with the build.

[Bushy]

Great work there Summie. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[5 o'clock]

Nice to watch builds by someone who obviously has the gear, knowledge and skills to do a good job.

Those of us without the gear and skills can at least learn the knowledge.

Makes me feel inadequate.

[greenguy]

looking good a lot of hard work that will bring u many bottles of grog :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Summie]

Thanks for all the positive words guys.

Just cutting every thing takes so much time, it so fiddly and it only going to get worse...lol

[Summie]

Righto, this posting pics thing is getting easier, it weird you have to post them in the opposite order for it to come out correct on the page.

Anyway here we go again.

[Yummyrum]

Fantastic job there Summie. Can really appreciate the time and effort you have put into those caps

[Summie]

Here is the SG's, they were fun gives you a sense that you are getting some where.

[Summie]

Hi there so, the SG's where fun they didn't turn out as good as I wanted but with a little clean up, no one will see my fuck ups. the vice I was using at home was not large enough to hold the modules completely; I kind of ended up holding it by hand and with large clamps but I got it done, wish I had not been so impatient thou as you might be able to see in the photo. Its not a real good one but the 70mm hole saw wore away on one side on three of the SG's

[Summie]

This is the main stuff up with my build, it is functional and works very well but could have been much better, because I had decided at the start not to do easy flanges thinking at the time it would work with out them, but soon as I got the clamps I realised that it would not work with out the extra thickness in the flanges. So I did what I had to and cut the flattened 1/4" in half and used a few sets of vice grips and solder them on worked pretty well actually and once I tidy all the solder up on every thing no one will be able to tell.

[Summie]

Righto, the RC is next as you can see in the picture above it is all together the PC is done as well but thast another post. My lyne arm is a little different to most just wanted to mix it up a bit, but that being said it will be functional as I am also building a replica pot still simular to those used in the Glenfidich distillery but home style :music-deathmetal: , and smaller scale with a boil ball etc all with 4" flanges so every thing can interchange im interested to use a boil ball under the column just fun!.

Anyway here is the RC, this was fun because I was unsure how it would all solder together, this was actually the first thing I made to test my soldering skills. but once I realised that with every piece of copper added that piece becomes a big heat sink and it very hard to make it all fall apart, it just goes together.
The inner tubes are 1 1/8".

[Potmash Boka]

Pretty bloody nice work there Summie. Hopefully mine turns out as well. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Summie]

Now the PC, this was heaps of fun felt like building a mini gun...lol :music-deathmetal: .