/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.566725]

update

here is the still running , but its not plumbed into the hot water tank yet

damn thing doesnt have a drain spout on the boiler so its not easy to clean out , this is a major problem for me

ive seen other models that have a drain port

ill be braze welding it into the copper water tank in the roof in 2 weeks

ive never copper brazed before

[Anonymous No.566733]

>>566725
>never copper brazed before

It's very easy, assuming you have a big enough burner to heat it. Doubly so, if you are familiar with soft soldering.

[Anonymous No.566812]

>>566725
Water distillation or ... other?

I ask because there's no copper that I can see in the path of steam. Copper reacts with congeners, getting rid of off flavors if you're not distilling water.

Also, that setup is quite small if not for water.

[Anonymous No.566820]

>>566725
I'll try to make a copper/steel/pvc desstilator+functioning collum. I lack the materials and the knowledge to weld. What do you guys think of using electronic soldering metal to join the copper tubing?

[Anonymous No.566861]

>>566725
What is this OP?

[Anonymous No.566872]

>>566861
Not him but it is a Reflux still or destiller.

[Anonymous No.566876]

>>566725
Can you post more pics? Or give an archive link? I'd like to see the whole thing.

[Anonymous No.566898]

>>566725
I approve. Classy.

[Anonymous No.566901]

That condenser is beautiful

[Anonymous No.566904]

I don't get the car battery charger. What is its purpose?

[Anonymous No.567009]

>>566820
>I'll try to make a copper/steel/pvc desstilator+functioning collum.
What are you going to distill and what are you going to do with it?

>I lack the materials and the knowledge to weld. What do you guys think of using electronic soldering metal to join the copper tubing?
No. Use plumbing solder. Lead free plumbing solder.

[Anonymous No.567014]

Yea, I jelly.
Sexy rig.

[Anonymous No.567019]

>>566861
quartz glass laboratory water still, that uses cooling water from a in-roof tank

its a continuous still , so it only boil 1 liter at a time , but it continually refills with pre-heated water from the condenser

its for drinking water.

>>566904
to power a 12 pump that pumps the water back up into the tank , but its not connected yet .


as i said, my biggest problem is that it has no drain spout , but it was the cheapest still at 180$

[Anonymous No.567026]

this one has a drain at the bottom , essential IMO

[Anonymous No.567029]

another pic

also the heating element bounces around a little bit , im not sure how long it will last

it was cheap though 180$ , compared to some glass stills witch are 3000$

[Anonymous No.567031]

to braze copper, i use an oxy-acetylene setup. i tried to do my first brazed joint using a regular MAPP gas bottle w/ a bernzomatic ingnitor and it didint get hot enough. i think if you use BcuP brazing rods you dont need flux.
also why is the copper pipe crimped

[Anonymous No.567032]

>>567031
interesting, im planing on using 15% silver rods

[Anonymous No.567033]

>>567031
its not crimped , just bent , i didnt have a bending spring

[Anonymous No.567040]

>>566820
just use compression fittings
alternatively use silicone tube in a water bucket as a condenser

[Anonymous No.567045]

op here

this is a pic of the water leveling part

if i can get a spout put on it where its marked in red , it will allow me to drain the boiler 90% without having to disassemble it

[Anonymous No.567051]

>>567045
add a T pipe to were the black thing is

[Anonymous No.567052]

here it is disassembled , now you can see why its so hard to drain/clean out

[Anonymous No.567056]

>>567031
I've brazed just fine with MAPP gas and 15% stay-silv rods. All the way up to around 1.5" diameter pipe.

>>567052
Where does the water go after it comes out of the self leveling valve? From what I see you're using water from the roof as cooling on the coil and preheating it with the steam at the same time, then running the cooling water down into the boiler. Runoff is what. . . pumped back up to the roof (I assume this is the pump purpose?).

Doesn't the continuous supply of non-boiling water make it hard to keep at a steady boil?

[Anonymous No.567060]

>>567056
at the moment it just goes down the household drain because im in testing mode , and i haven yet brazed it into the copper water tank

the copper water tank already has a wetback wood stove plumbed into it 5kw heating capacity , this it what gave me the idea to plumb the still in as well

once it is plumbed into the tank it wont waste ant water


Doesn't the continuous supply of non-boiling water make it hard to keep at a steady boil?
no , all continuous stills are designed like that i assume , and the water is preheated by the condenser , and its 1.5kw heating like 1 to 2 liters of water

[Anonymous No.567101]

>>567060
Is your drinking water that dirty? What's with so much distilled water?

[Anonymous No.567108]

>>567101
http://www.pbfluids.com/2011/04/in-defense-of-epigraph.html

[Anonymous No.567211]

>>567009
>What are you going to distill and what are you going to do with it?
Ethanol, chloroform and other stuff. I know PVC will melt, react, dissolve or blown up everything but it's a only worst case scenario where other metal small parts aren't found.

[Anonymous No.567214]

>>567108
>mfw brazilian water has fluorine and chlorine
>tfw bodly fluids are all contaminated by communism

[Anonymous No.567329]

>>567211
>Ethanol, chloroform and other stuff.

Ethanol OK, that's obvious, chloroform? 'other stuff'? The fuck you up to, turtle?

>PVC
Listen, you're a lot less likely to wind up sick or dead if you build stuff out of stainless or copper. Brass is also generally OK as long as it's nowhere above the boiler.

[Anonymous No.567330]

>>567329

[Anonymous No.567345]

>>567019
>but it was the cheapest still at 180$
>>567029
>it was cheap though 180$

Where did you buy this, OP?

[Anonymous No.567372]

>>567330
I made a still similar to this, but better IMO. Question for those of you with experience though. What do you use to seal the pot? In this case its paper clips. I use flower paste.

[Anonymous No.567373]

>>567372
oatmeal paste works better
its what the moonshiners use

its thicker than flour paste

[Anonymous No.567376]

>>567372
homedistiller.org and artisan-distiller.org have many threads regarding improvements to the mini-still design.

That said, as for gasket material, some people feel comfortable using aquarium grade silicone adhesive. There are guys that swear by it, you definitely need to research it for yourself first.

[Anonymous No.567377]

>>567373
What do you mean better?

>>567376
Are you suggesting I don't talk about my still here? Thanks for the info though. I will have to check it out.

[Anonymous No.567379]

>>567377
its thicker so steam does not push it away as easily

[Anonymous No.567380]

>>567214
Brazil also have vaccines. Clearly a country dominated by the evil communists.

[Anonymous No.567384]

>>567377
Nah, I mean, I don't know what the mods think about distilling here. It's legal in some countries, and we have no way of knowing that you don't have a license to do so.

I was just letting you know that people have put a lot of thought into that particular still design over on those websites, and produced more improvements than I can convey in my 2,000 characters.

[Anonymous No.567391]

>>567380
Everybody here has a mark on the arm.

[Anonymous No.567442]

>>567345
http://labzj.en.alibaba.com/productgrouplist-209371573/water_distiller_series.html

not sure that id recommend the company though , or the still itself

like i said , it has no drain port , and the heating element "bumps" around slightly

i told the company about the drain problem , they just told me to "use acid to clean it"

i think it was designed for smaller amounts of higher purity water (because its quartz rather than boro) than running large amounts of drinking water through it

hopefully i can get the leveling part modified so it has a drain

here is a pic of a better still

[Anonymous No.567468]

>>567391
is that what that flower shaped scar is?

[Anonymous No.567469]

when did /diy/ become /x/

[Anonymous No.567472]

[Anonymous No.567473]

>>567468
Smallpox vaccination scar. Your mom and dad have one unless you're underageb&.

[Anonymous No.567474]

>>567472
Maybe I'm dumb, is there any reason you couldn't just turn that piece you say needs a drain ... upside down?

[Anonymous No.567482]

>>567473

Was in the Army for a few years and I got one. That kid has had some kind of reaction to it. Mine looked like a little scab that was completely normal. No swelling, no redness, only about a half centimeter across. Took longer to heal than a normal scrap and they made me keep it covered and shit for 2 weeks but nothing like that kid has. I have a tiny ass pale scare that you can;t even see 'cause I'm a pasty ass white fuck.

[Anonymous No.567485]

>>567482
That child is brown, assuming that he/she is in the third world, the live attenuated virus polio vaccine is still used in places with greater relative risk of contracting smallpox. Live virus vaccine causes an actual infection, which can be spread to other parts of the body.

[Anonymous No.567487]

>>567482
Deleted previous post because it was all fucked up and retarded. I'm pretty sure the child is just having a reaction to smallpox vaccine.

[Anonymous No.567488]

>>567482
Rather than assuming, I actually reverse image searched the picture and it's a reaction to the BCG vaccine.

>Bacillus Calmette–Guérin is a vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis, that has lost its virulence in humans

[Anonymous No.567489]

>>567474
no its spills hot acid water everywhere when i do that

[Anonymous No.567493]

>>567489

This is what I meant. I'm just making shit up as I go along, I have no idea how your stuff is put together.

[Anonymous No.567494]

>>567493
well that would work for draining it , but now it has no water leveling device

[Anonymous No.567495]

>>567494
Hah, fuck me running.

Well, in that case I'd try cruising ebay, etc for lab glass that might work in your situation.

[Anonymous No.567597]

>>567488
Sorry for the delay. But that is it. Some scars look like flowers others like the batsignal and some like cancer. we also have a yearly polio vaccination campaign every year even thought there are no recorded cases since 1900. Sorry for derailing your thread OP. And it's a fine dandy still you got there.

[Anonymous No.567650]

heres a better still , it has a drain port on the boiler

[Anonymous No.567651]

>>567650
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.567658]

>>567493
>I have no idea how your stuff is put together.
Oh thank bog, it's not just me. I've been tracing these tubes and pipes around for a while now, and I'm only getting more and more confused.

[Anonymous No.567660]

>>567651
Don't you have a glass cutter? Or someone who can cut it for you? Usually guys in glassworking shops do it for free or dirty cheap. After you get the cut done you can install a valve.

[Anonymous No.567665]

>>567660
its quartz glass , they would need to be able to work with quartz , with a flame not a cutter

[Anonymous No.567666]

>>567665
Uhmm... I though it was common lab stuff made of glass or borosilicate.

[Anonymous No.567670]

>>567666
Yeah, it is. Quartz is used only for special stuff, like water distillers. Point is that it won't leach anything to the purified water.
Total overkill for OP's purpose, of course.

[Anonymous No.567678]

op here i thought of a solution

its to get a new part made from stainless steel

here is a pic

[Anonymous No.567680]

>>567678
Why are you using the acid for? I thought this was a water purifier.

[Anonymous No.567681]

>>567680
to clean it out you boil it with citric acid to dissolve the calcium deposits

[Anonymous No.567686]

jesus christ, go to bunnings and buy a 10 amp replug kit

[Anonymous No.567690]

>>567686
i think ill do that , but 2 of the 4 connections are only 12v