StillSmart

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

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.

Robert.

@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Your Own where many of the longer term inmates here have posted their progressive builds, many of which were later superseded by better and greater innovations with new bells and whistles, my own included, which went through a number of incarnations.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

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

AM

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

doing the vinegar run here.

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.

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




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.

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

Robert.

@Anavrin : nice still/pics mate...
btw how do you read the digital thermo? Ladder/binoculars/?

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!

Looking good anavrin! . This is mine I'm happy with, but always wanting more I think I'll go 6" next .

Some great builds on here lads, love to see loads of copper included.

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

Sorry don't know how to rotate Doh

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

Doesn't bear thinking about AT

AidanMac

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 :-)

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










An early start tomorrow