G'Day Guy's,
Well finally got onto the new design and nearly got it all done, still need to get the 3" siteglass and clamps off Mac to get it finished.
As this still be run on gas I needed a base of the still so the trusty ol' car wheel rim was the idea so grabbed a 15" wheel ( as that is all I have here) then after trying for 5 minutes to get the tyre off decided to get the 9" out and cut the tyre off. Didn't take long and also cut the hole for the burner then off to test it only to find a friggin 16" rim is the preferred one for the keg. Not to outdone got the 4lber and my heavyduty set of locking pliers and bent the out rim out so the keg now sit firmly on the rim.
For the gaskets, used the pfte tape method and used a roll on each seal, for the backing material I used some 1.6mm gasket paper and with a couple went 2 thick.
Went with the blockhead style and only had 450mm of 3" left so with a bit of fiddling managed to make up the piece. For the 45 degree bend I just cut it with my mitre handsaw and got a nice square cut. As with the T-piece I silver soldered both joints just to be sure be sure. As in the pic below rather than butcher my free standing parrot decided to make a new one. Got the 1/2 pipe all cut with the breather join all sorted. Went to soft solder it all up and got too much bloody heat in it and the easy flange dropped off :angry-banghead:
Anyway still gotta clean it up
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The free standing Parrot
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Cheers Bryan
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