Jumping on the Bandwagon

[R-sole]

Trying my hand at parts of a bubble column build for one of the members here.

I've had the idea in my head for a while of being able to pull a branch from the 4" column with a branchforming tool for a while now. It seems to go OK, although it's a lot of work, but gives some dents and deformities where the tool sits..

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I think it's still going to be OK without panelbeating, but won't be able to tell for sure until i get some plates cut and try em in there.

More piccies as work progresses.

[maheel]

got a picture or a link of the tool your using, i did a google but nothing for that application showed it;s picture.

looks very natural and with some good weld / brazing and polishing would look smick

[eminiM]

sieve or tray column?
are you brazing in the ferrules or welding?

[MacStill]

If you did a J type, or 3/4 tube into a 1" cup type down comer setup on each plate you could solder all the plates in, soft soldering the plates in by heating from the outside works really well and any small imperfections wouldn't matter.

The tree wouldn't be removable like this but there's never any real need to remove them anyway.

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[SBB]

Love the work bench 5Star....reminds me of mine...everything in its place :laughing-rolling:

[R-sole]

got a picture or a link of the tool your using, i did a google but nothing for that application showed it;s picture.

looks very natural and with some good weld / brazing and polishing would look smick

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Rothenberger ... _500wt_949

Save up if you want one :laughing-rolling:

I'll be brazing, but polishing is not my cup of tea.


I'm doing this modular atm, as i'm trying to avoid building the plates. I need to price to get some plates cut for the condensor anyway, so may negotiate further with the owner about putting them together and soldering them in. Would certainly save some expensive fittings if i did the plates as well. :crazy:

I do have an idea about press forming dish plates, but i don't know whether it would work.


Bench is sorted in chronological order.

[maheel]

Bench is sorted in chronological order.

lol


thanks for the link for too now i understand

[bang300]

I have a different take on the cluttered shop...I used to clean everything up and put it in rolling tool boxes every night, until thieves wheeled it all out the door one night. If they want to steal my stuff again, they'll have to pack it themselves!

Pipe looks great

[stubbydrainer]

G'day 5Star
I'm just thinkin' out loud here so forgive me if this is a fucked idea.....
those indents in the column that the tool leaves behind are they on annealed copper ? what would be wrong with placing a piece of unannealed tube section ie: a piece of 4" cut in half length ways with say a 2 1/4 hole in it where the branch is gunna pull thru, would the tool handle that thickness under where the tool sits ? leaving protected annealed tube after the branch is pulled thus no dents !!.........would that work ???

nuthin' wrong with that bench either, looks homely to me ( just like mine)

cheers
Stubs

[Tracker]

Sounds like a plan Stan


Cheers.

[R-sole]

G'day 5Star
I'm just thinkin' out loud here so forgive me if this is a fucked idea.....
those indents in the column that the tool leaves behind are they on annealed copper ? what would be wrong with placing a piece of unannealed tube section ie: a piece of 4" cut in half length ways with say a 2 1/4 hole in it where the branch is gunna pull thru, would the tool handle that thickness under where the tool sits ? leaving protected annealed tube after the branch is pulled thus no dents !!.........would that work ???

nuthin' wrong with that bench either, looks homely to me ( just like mine)

cheers
Stubs

You're right, that'd work making a guard. I have to anneal the pipe in order for the tool to work, but i could do what you said in future.

[olddog]

I never thought I would see the day when 5Star builds a Flute :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Go Gaz Go..

[MacStill]

I never thought I would see the day when 5Star builds a Flute :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Go Gaz Go..

He's not ;)

He's building a bubbler :teasing-poke:

:teasing-neener:

[SBB]

The old saying...."If ya cant beat them join them" ;)

[olddog]

He's building a bubbler

Ya can give it whatever name makes you happy :text-lol: :text-lol: :text-lol:
It's great to see how this concept has now been accepted by the hobby distilling community.

[MacStill]

It's great to see how this concept has now been accepted by the hobby distilling community.

yep sure is, and if it wasn't for OD we'd all be left in the dark ages ;)

[R-sole]

Atm i'm building bits of one. I am getting swayed by the new buisness in town (opened this week) doing cnc.

Problem is that my job broke his plasma cutter :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

The plates i was spossed to pick up yesti arvo aren't done and he doesn't know what's going obn with his robot and why it's on strike.


Interesting times, and lucky the eventual owner is not in a hurry. Seems it may well end up cheaper and easier for me to build the whole thing than it would be to put all the joints in it so that someone else who doesn't want to build it has to :D 8-)

If i can get a system down pat using ACW parts and local suppliers there may be a way to do these regularly, It'd just look so fuking awesome on one of festers boilers. :o

[R-sole]

Well it's a fail. The tool warps the column too much to be able to fit a plate down there properly, let alone a whole tree.

There's just too many hours in constructing these the long way for me to be able to find, let alone charge for. :oops:


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[MacStill]

That's a real shame about the branch forming tool, I thought you were on a winner there :crazy:

[stubbydrainer]

Yeh me too! :( :(
and the way it rolled out the branch looked pretty darn smick to me