S.D's turn at bubblers

[stubbydrainer]

Well folks it's time for me to jump on the band wagon and build myself a 4" plate column still :dance:
I also have to empty my photo's from my phone so I thought I'd stick some of em here

I will let you use your imagination on what's involved in cutting a piece off a length of pipe , splitting it , annealling it , flattening it and cutting it into 4" circles with tinsnips ( cos I didn't get any piccy's of that :roll: )
So I'll start with makin'em round


Ta Da a Perfect fit


Marking out and drill, drill,drill 3 down and 1 to go ( thank god for that)


and finally a finished tree


Cheers
Stubs

[MacStill]

OH HELL YEAH!!!

This is gunna be a good one :clap: :clap: :clap:

Cant wait to see this baby built, you're a true craftsman from the work I've seen.

Cheers.

[SBB]

Geeeze dont some people take the easy way out....lathes and all the flash tools :shock: :shock: .
Whats the drill bit count so far Draino???????

[stubbydrainer]

eeeerrrrrr ,
4 SBB , haven't broke another since I got a cobalt one

[Kimbo]

Nice work so far SD :clap: :clap: :clap:

[SBB]

haven't broke another since I got a cobalt one

Yep good drill bits make all the difference

[devotus]

man, insert jealous smiley here. Looks great

[MacStill]

man, insert jealous smiley here. Looks great

Dont be jealous, just admire and be inspired by the artisan talent of this guy :clap:

My bet is, this will be one of the best bubblers built to date & could end up being an inspiration to many people.

Cheers.

[maheel]

notice all those bottles of shine in the background... FFS stop drinking on the job :teasing-neener:

[MacStill]

notice all those bottles of shine in the background... FFS stop drinking on the job :teasing-neener:

OH! if only you seen my shed :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[devotus]

Dont be jealous, just admire and be inspired by the artisan talent of this guy :clap:

My bet is, this will be one of the best bubblers built to date & could end up being an inspiration to many people.

Cheers.

Appreciation; check in fact I appreciate a lot of the creativity and workmanship from quite a few of you guys around the boards. Most of you are pretty handy.

Jealousy; can't help it :roll:

Ah one day.....one day.

[olddog]

Looking like a great build there SD :dance:
BTW what type of cutting tool are you using on your mini lathe? High speed steel or tungsten carbide ?



OD

[stubbydrainer]

OD its high speed steel

[stubbydrainer]

Today I tinkered with the column and deflagatererererthingy :?

Gotta get the bottom nice and square on this one, don't wan't a banana looking thing :D


cut the parts for the reflux condenser


and stuck em together, Ready to be remounted to the top of the column, that's perfectly square too by the way 8-)

[olddog]

OD its high speed steel

I guessed so, it's the only tool that I can get to turn copper without it grabbing.


OD

[stubbydrainer]

OD
it took a bit of trial and error to get it to cut clean , but got it there in the end :D ( was a new bar and had to grind shit outta it :o )

[SBB]

Looks like youve left that deflagamagadget at the full 4 inch OD.... :think: :think: you gunna graft that straight back on using hard silver solder??.....no clamps no fuss?????

[olddog]

Just a 4"coupler will do that easy.



OD

[stubbydrainer]

yup :D
I got somethin' in mind SBB :shhh:

[stubbydrainer]

Working on the column vapour outlet atm

I'm using a bit of 2 1/2" tube and it's all shaped up ready to go


then I better cut a hole in the column, god bless Dremels, they truly are a gods sent piece of kit


This joint is cleaned, fluxed up and ready to silver solder together


Fukin beauty at it's finest