Modular Pot Still Head Build

[Son of Opus 27]

Hi,
You all know my Dad on the forum as Opus 27 so I thought I would join as well. We have had a bit of a play and the results are shown below for the build of our modular pot still head.

The first component that we decided to build was the new shotgun style condenser. The individual parts can be seen in the photo below after machining. All items are 316 stainless steel.



After a bit of TIG welding to assemble them they look like the image below. At this point it is missing the push fit connectors for the cooling pipes.



The next part was the column this is a 1000mm piece of 2" pipe with a pair of weld ferrules 1 at either end only one is shown in the photo the finished item can be seen in the photo of the assembled head.



The next item to be fabricated was the new stainless parrot the component parts are shown in the next two images, the image below shows the reducer ferrule, valve, bar and tube.



The next image is after a bit of pipe bending , some turning and a little welding to create the linking tube and drain.



And finally after some more TIG welding the assembled parrot.



That completed the fabrication of the individual parts and the image below shows the head assembled together + cooling pipes.



The image below shows the new boiler with the element fitted to the bottom tri clover fitting and the column clamped to the top one.



Longer term we plan to build some more parts that can be swapped into the various areas to allow alternative setups to be configured with the components.

Thanks for looking.

Regards
Son of Opus 27 + Opus 27

[packapoo]

Cracker. Absolutely, well done.

[Almanac]

lovin it A thing of great beauty

AM

[Boozoid]

Aye, lovely neat work

[Icefever]

Shiney........

Looking good..all that stainless...

[Icefever]

I bumped this Son of Opus because I'm following in your footsteps by the look of things....(although the boiler has a different top lid) in this photo the element looks bigger then the 2" port that's in these boilers....is it?? whichever way...what element did you run with??

[Son of Opus 27]

It's a DN25 Heater Element mine is stainless from China, if you bang DN25 Heater in ebay you will see them £11.00 ish for 2 kw 2.5kw or 3kw depends on the size you want. I just bored a blank plate for the tri clover fitting and then fitted the heater to this.

Cheers
Nick

[Icefever]

Cheers mate..

I thought it looked bigger, I did have the same thought about using an end cap. I'm ok at the moment as I've an element on it's way from china.