Got sick of waiting

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Got sick of waiting

Postby Worthog » Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:59 pm

So I has a still spirits alembic pot condenser on my radar, having already forked out for the alembic dome, and it had been unavailable for many month (recently available again). So I decided to buy a blow torch and some copper instead, never having done any copper pipe soldering before!

I started by building a 65cm Liebig condenser pot still which can be used by itself, or on the Alembic dome.
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Re: Got sick of waiting

Postby bluc » Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:14 pm

Cool and you now have a better pot then you would have had :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Got sick of waiting

Postby Worthog » Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:29 pm

I then thought - This isn't as hard as I thought.....so.....
I went on to build a 40 cm shotgun product condenser, and a 10cm shotgun reflux condenser.
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Re: Got sick of waiting

Postby Worthog » Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:34 pm

...and put them onto a 1m packed column!
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Re: Got sick of waiting

Postby Worthog » Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:37 pm

So far, I have done vinegar runs and sacrificial runs on all components, and today did my first stripping run on the pot still, with a TPW. Very pleased with the result so far.
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Re: Got sick of waiting

Postby Dude » Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:42 am

Nice work Worthog, looks like the bug has bitten hard. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Got sick of waiting

Postby Worthog » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:57 am

Yeh, no vaccine for this bug, just an elixir at the end of a days work! :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Got sick of waiting

Postby tacman1970 » Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:25 pm

Love your work Worthog! This may be a stupid question, but did you use a soft silver solder or braze for connecting the copper? I'm like you & never soldered copper prior to deciding to build my own!
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