The Heart of Gold

[SJC]

Lookin good mate.

[rumdidlydum]

It's amazing how much you can achive with such limited access to tools :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Some great thinking outside the box there zac :D

[Zak Griffin]

Cheers lads. Shipped off to work for 10 days this morning so progress will slow down a bit... Should be able to organize the last few bits I need, and some tools, while I'm away.

[Zak Griffin]

Back from work for the weekend, went out this morning and bought some soldering goodies :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Got my caps soft soldered first. Clean, flux, little bit of heat, voila! Got it sorted by the 4th one. Obviously went with a MAPP torch, too...

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How many easy flange rings can you make out of a length of 1/4"?

Exactly one less than you need :laughing-rolling:

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The 2" there is for the start of the blockhead, I've since hard soldered it. Torch handled the ring > 2" no worries.

Almost at the stage of needing a drill and grinder now... I'll see what I can do.

Also got my sight glasses sussed out, they're gunna be cooool :-B

And I've got some ideas for my cooling lines too, something a bit different :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Doubleuj]

How many easy flange rings can you make out of a length of 1/4"?

Exactly one less than you need :laughing-rolling:

:angry-banghead: :laughing-rolling: damn that would shit you to tears
Nice progress mate.
Btw, what are those gold looking rings top right of that picture... :whistle:

[WTDist]

Excellent effort Zac, even ye old tooth brush thinks so with that grin :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I keep having same problem with my 1/4". yea this is enough, and bam no where near enough :))

As for the 2", did you braze the ring on and the 2" onto some 4", or just the ring so far. Curious what your torch can handle with brazing.

[Zak Griffin]

I've got plenty of 1/4" left, just have to wrap some rings. On second count I think I have enough anyway...

I haven't brazed the 2" to the 4" yet, not sure if it will do it but I'll have a go! All of the other modules will be soft soldered, ill just use hard solder on a few bits I don't wont falling apart while I'm soft soldering, like condenser internals ;-)

Dunno what you're on about WJ! 8-}

[Zak Griffin]

Got a grinder sorted and I'll buy a new drill after pay day. Once I get the power tools sorted ill be able to reveal my sightglasses! :dance:

[dogbreath vodka]

Looking forward to the great sightglass unveiling. :D ;-)

[rumdidlydum]

Looking forward to the great sightglass unveiling. :D ;-)

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[Dig Brinker]

Nice hint :handgestures-thumbupleft: looking forward to the great sight glass unveiling aswell.

[RuddyCrazy]

Eh Zac still got that 6" here waiting for it's place in this 'heart of gold' too mate and if you need more copper a run upto the bridge will soon get ya sorted. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Zak Griffin]

I haven't forgotten mate, I'll give you a buzz one weekend and get this boiler glued up too :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Zak Griffin]

My old man dropped off my angle grinder this morning so I cleaned the caps up a bit with a flap disc

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And then i started on the sightglasses!

I've got a bit of ~7mm thick copper bus bar that I'm cutting into rings to fit inside 3" pipe with a 50mm ID hole. Only one done so far,and no pics of it before I fitted it in the 3"...

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A while ago I scored half a dozen brass rings from work. They're about 7mm thick, OD 77mm, ID 51mm. Knew they'd come in handy for something!

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So the copper ring will be soldered ~5mm inside the pipe, as seen in the pic. This will give me room for a seal and a 2" glass disc from FSD, with the brass ring sitting flush with the edge of the 3". I've got 14mm M3 stainless Allen head screws on their way from eBay, I'll probably use 6 on each one. I'll clamp the copper and brass ring together and drill the holes so they all line up ;-)

And it will look something like this! But with screws and glass.

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I reckon they're gunna look coooool. Cheers to DBV for paving the way on SP1 :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[stilllearning]

Loving the sight glasses, the allen screws / brass / glass combo will look very industrial indeed. :clap:

[rumdidlydum]

Awsome work there zak. The bus bar is a handy material if you can get your hands on a length. :D

[Doubleuj]

Hell yeah mate, that'll be awesome
Going to remind me of something like this :handgestures-thumbupleft:

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[Zak Griffin]

That's what Zeb said about the 'helmet" on Agrajag :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Got another day off today, should be able to get the 4 SG ports cut to shape and the rest of my easy flange rings made up. I can cut and trim my plates, too.

Now that I'm using 3" SG holes I'll be able to see more of the plate, so I'm going to use cup down comers instead of J traps. I'll knock them up today too :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Zak Griffin]

Got a bit sidetracked so far...

One SG and the blockhead PC mount cut and shaped

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Plates for my RC cut and cleaned up

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And this is where the action happens!

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I've also cut a bubble plate, and soldered up the blockhead but ill clean it up a bit before I show you that.

[Toddles]

You're going to add a second story to the distillation shed right!?

I thought i worked in cramped quarters, i shall never complain about that again. :handgestures-thumbupleft: