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Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Anavrin » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:05 pm

I thought I'd start this, it's a bit of fun and there's a similar thread on the SD Forum, it's intresting to see what people are using, my stills evolved quite a bit in the last 12 months, I guess others have too, especially with the StillDragon parts now available from
http://www.stilldragon.eu


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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Easydrinker » Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:09 am

I'm still using my Silly still,30 litre air cooled,life currently too busy to build the projected sillier one,30 litre air cooled reflux.Neither is/will be a thing of beauty,but that to me is not important.Still porn is not my style.It's all about the product.And doing it in a different manner.

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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Almanac » Wed Mar 04, 2015 7:40 am

@Anavrin: Your post prompted me to revisit the archive pages of Build Your Own where many of the longer term inmates here have posted their progressive builds, many of which were later superseded by better and greater innovations with new bells and whistles, my own included, which went through a number of incarnations.

With the amount of hours and hard work I put into those projects I owe myself a fortune in unpaid salary and bonuses :D

I'll post pics when I'm home again at the weekend - if I remember.

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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Blue_Duck » Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:41 pm

Dont have recent pic, here she is when i built the pothead design by vino.

doing the vinegar run here.


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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Anavrin » Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:17 pm

I've been busy re-building once again and have just setup for a stripping run, I'm using the torpedo and Dephlegmator to get a higher ABV and collecting straight into a cornie.



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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Anavrin » Thu May 14, 2015 10:44 pm

Just doubled the number of plates in my Baby CD to 6


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It hit 90% off a 12% sugar wash at 2kw, although I did flood it a few times while playing with the power and dephlag cooling, in the end I turned the reflux cooling off and just stripped the rest off the wash, all the plates stayed bubbling away, once they're charged they stay charged, even without and reflux.
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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Easydrinker » Fri May 15, 2015 12:01 am

Looks to me like your baby is now all grown up.

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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Frank » Fri May 15, 2015 11:24 am

@Anavrin : nice still/pics mate...
btw how do you read the digital thermo? Ladder/binoculars/? ;)
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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Anavrin » Fri May 15, 2015 1:16 pm

It's not fully grown up yet, I'd say it's now a teenager, it'll be 9 or 10 plates by the time it's done, that's how many plates I recon will fit between the ends using standard 1m long threaded bars, it's certainly getting tall!

I've got a keg which will become my new boiler and that's taller than my current one, plus if I add the torpedo section in that adds even more hight!
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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby googe » Sat May 16, 2015 7:11 am

Looking good anavrin! :) . This is mine I'm happy with, but always wanting more I think I'll go 6" next ::) .
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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Spirits4BB » Sat May 16, 2015 9:32 am

Some great builds on here lads, love to see loads of copper included. 8) 8)
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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Admiral Toad » Fri May 22, 2015 11:32 am

I added another plate to my setup so here it is assembled as hybrid with

Sorry don't know how to rotate Doh



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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Almanac » Fri May 22, 2015 7:10 pm

Admiral Toad wrote:Sorry don't know how to rotate Doh


Doesn't bear thinking about AT :D :D

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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Anavrin » Sun May 24, 2015 10:39 pm

If your uploading from a phone or pad, just edit the photo by rotating it 90°, save it, then rotate it back again to normal , and save it again, after that, it should upload the right way round :-)
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Re: Show Us Your Still Thread

Postby Anavrin » Thu May 28, 2015 9:51 pm

Ready for some action tomorrow :-) got 35 litres of sugar strip in the boiler at 30% it's going to be a long day!!


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An early start tomorrow :)
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