Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hello and thanyou for accepting my application to joint this very informative forum.I live in the Victorian central goldfields region.I have a home built Kentucky pot still and thumper (I will try to add a photo)Since i started distilling in the last 3 months I have made a sugar shine a pear brandy and a mollases rum, I'm sure they will get a whole lot better with time and practice.I look forwad to participating, asking questions and putting forward for discussion some different alternative ideas i have for brewing.
Thank you again, kind regards Ron.

Welcome swaggin
I am in central vic as well mate.. ask your questions lots of smart people here who will be able to help.
I myself just like to look at the pretty pictures

Welcome.
Wondering what size is boiler and thumper. How big is pipe going in and out of thumper?
Also why the coil at top of condenser?

Hello Welsy thank you for you offer and i will take you up on thatwhen i require advise.
Regards Ron.

Hello Bluc. 22 litre,(5 gallon) pot with about 8 litre thumper.3/4 inch in annd 1/2 inch out, i didnt have any plans for the thumper and used a 1/2 inch condenser pipe, when i made the coil i had a few coils left over so i put them on top because i thought it looked the part. I then modified it and put 3/4 inch out of the thumper and removed the top coils, did a run and got huffing and purging out of the spout, so i went back to original design put my last run through and only experieced slight huffing. Hard to get temps constant as its on a old wood stove i have out the back veranda, so the huffing could have been caused by it running hotter on that run.
Regards Ron.

Pretty cool i would have persevered with 3/4 especially if running solids in thumper.

If you run your pc slightly hotter it can help with huffing. I have a 4" bubbler the pc is only 300mm long with 5 x3/4" internals. I have to choke the cooling water a tiny bit or it huffs like a train.
Is that a flour paste seal prob not ideal.
Like your build though :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Bluc thanks for the advice, as the thumper has only3/4 entrance i will be only putting in liquid or aromatics that have been sieved through cheese cloth, i originally used flour past , which was from a Lauke rye sourdough bread kit, set hard but difficult to clean up after run, last run i wrapped plumbers thread tape around joint and then streached silicone tape over that, worked a treat.
I built the setup to look like it was a barn find from the appalasian mountains, as it is now part of the decor in the back porch.
Regards Ron.