Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

ok ive had a cuppla runs with my pot still built by mc still the swan with hot dog in its mouth so its been described to me :text-lol:
im well impresed with the way it performs . its a real pisser on stripping runs which all ive done so far . its pulling 10L hour :handgestures-thumbupleft: from start time from heating up the boiler to clean up and sit back for a beer on the second run was 4 hours with a result of 24L of 40% low wines to go with the first run of 21Lgives me 45 L of low wines in 2 runs to run though my 3" boka hopefully on sunday then thats the neutral run done for a while and time to do sum ujs
Thanks mac for the great build these things are awsum :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Here's a quick vid

http://youtu.be/vqwTapllIJQ

And a pic

Geez ya got to be pretty happy with 10lts an hour. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Im only getting round 4.7l/h with my 3" pot & shotty doing stripping runs.

Can you post a pick of the swan? I had a bit of a look around bit couldnt find one

Cheers

Shit, impressive speed :o looks pretty unique too.

Now thats pretty cool swan :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

F! those numbers are great!

Can we just confirm that ur using the 4" to 2" reducer cone, the neck is normal 2" ?

Also the joiner to condenser is it 3/4' or 1" ?

At those numbers saves me going to 4" pot as next build... bloody imprressed!

bt1

That pic is set up on my boiler, Pretty sure Cavey has a 2" boiler connection.

The tri clamp condenser connection is 3/4 inch :handgestures-thumbupleft:

:clap: +1 on the comments re strip speed etc...
I was wondering what wash(s) you used to get that low wines volume?

(btw 'my' potstill has been called the aardvark and I know SBBs is the pelican) :)) what a zoo!

thanks for the feed back guys :handgestures-thumbupleft: yep im stokeded with the numbers too i bet if you used gas and realy cranked it up it would prob be even better. ive got a 100L boiler with 2 x 2400w elements producing those numbers
frank the wash was a tpw i put about 75L in the boiler each time cheeres caveman

the swan on the 100L boiler with 2" attachment to boiler 2x 2400w elements

Love your work. Nice clean setup.

Where did you get your boiler?

cheeres stilly :text-thankyoublue:
i made the boiler out of a old stainless steel wine storage tank and tig welded ferruels to it and made a thermo port out of staino fittings
and put a drain in the bottom with a staino valve for easy empting of the boiler also added the 3" fill port so no need to take still off for filling the boiler also going to add a nuther 2" ferruel to top of boiler with led light so to make it easy for viewing through the fill port /sight glass (not really needed but why not) im also working on a nutha boiler for future updates of my system prob be 175L so you can put a 150L charge into the boiler . i no its a big boiler but i dont get too much time to do stilling so when i do im gunna make it count :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Unique and odd haha, very nice looking mate. You do have a nice clean setup :). Do you think the curved colum is creating more speed of the vapor, and the bigger condensor, hence the fast stripping run?.

hey googe cheeres mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: the shotgun condencer (the hot dog ) is the work horse of this rig if can pump enough heat and water though the swan i recon it could be good for 20L hour
the swan shape of the still may give it a better flow but the shotty is definatly the go in my opinion

Ah i see, thanks for the feedback mate. Glad its working so well :).

The swan has found a temperary new home at linnos whilst i move house will hopefully running some soured mash uj through it soon i have 180L of it to strip through the swan .Whith the new location comes a new watercooling system thanks to linnos pool i hope to drop my 350w pump in there and let it rip
crank up the 4800w of power to the boiler and hopefully get round about 15 to 20 L per hour out of on full strpping mode

I built another one for a WA member today :handgestures-thumbupleft:



:D

Thanks McStill for the build :handgestures-thumbupleft: just about to start it up and do a cleaning run.
Cheers Mick

Lucky bastard...
Enjoy this as it's a some what special design close to my heart


cheers
bt1

That's cool mick you will get sum great enjoyment out of the swan :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Shes a great stripper and will take all the heat u can chuck at it
What u going to power the boiler with mate

Hey Caveman

Shes got a couple electric elements from TWOC in her. I think they are 2300w

Just finished the cleaning run and got the water recirculation sorted now need to get her looking pretty.

Cheers