Meet the Lamb Cannon

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:09 am

Well, here she is. As of last night, she's a complete unit (minus burner).

Lamb Cannon.jpg

Garden variety keg boiler and 3/4" drain.

Reflux is induced by a 2" x 8" spool housing a 1" x 8" coldfinger, wrapped with Amphora copper mesh. Coldfinger inlet/outlet is drilled and soldered through the sides of the 2" spool. C*nt of a job if you ask me. Should work pretty good I reckon. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

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Solder.jpg

Product cooling is provided by a 400mm 2" shotgun with triclamp ferrules soldered into the ends. Condenser has 4 x 1/2" tubes with a central 3/4" tube. I thought it was a good idea at the time, but now I reckon that the vapour will want to travel mainly down the 3/4" central tube as it would have the least resistance. Might stuff the tubes with a bit of mesh to turbulate it a bit. Dunno, will suck-it and see I guess. :think:
Condenser was an absolute headfuck to drill and solder, but I did the whole thing with basic hand tools, a shitter $20 ebay torch and Baker's Soldering Fluid. Yep, even works for stainless. :handgestures-thumbupleft: I ended up heating the ferrules from the inside when soldering them to stop the flux from burning. Worked pretty well. Will post up piccies of the condenser internals soon.

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The waterflow side of things is controlled by a couple of brass needle valves that I made into a sort of makeshift water manifold. Pretty it aint but its watertight and layed out well I think. There's a 3/8" ball drain on the bottom of the manifold for adjusting water pressure and dumping water after a run. It also has a push on garden hose fitting for the water inlet. Water here costs me $16 a month for as much as I can use. :happy-partydance:

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Needle valve on the left is for the shotgun, the other is for the coldfinger.

Cont'd...........

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:13 am

Product flows through into a few bends/reducers etc and into my fancy-shmancy parrot.

Parrot.jpg

Its made in 3/4" and houses my alcometer nicely but in hindsight, shoulda gone with inch pipe - oh well.

Oh, its vented at the top too. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

In case youre wondering about product/flame distance, well I was too but the whole unit is sheathed in a closed steel drum with the flame area boxed off.

I'll post up piccies of that later too.

Burner is a Bayou Classic SP1 at 185,000btu. Should be pretty sweet. :happy-partydance:

Cheers for reading. :teasing-tease:

P.S. Thanks heaps to Mac for answering my numerous questions over the phone and sorting out various consumables etc for me. Much appreciated dude. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **MacStill** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:18 am

Geez mate that is one kick arse pot still, I can see a lot of future add ons that would be awesome on it.

A few plate sections under the main column full of packing, and you got a great vodka rig too.

Nice build, very nice :happy-partydance:

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:21 am

McStill wrote:A few plate sections under the main column full of packing, and you got a great vodka rig too.:happy-partydance:

Thats the idea Mac! :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Hence the question yesterday about your shiny mod parts being available individually. :D

Thanks mate.

by **MacStill** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:26 am

That 45 degree bend before the parrot really sets it off mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

:)) :D :))

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:28 am

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Sure does mate! Much better than nickel-plated exhaust pipe if you ask me! :laughing-rolling:

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:13 am

Here's the column packing being rolled. Used nearly 3 pounds of mesh to pack the 26" x 4" column. The Amphora mesh is lovely stuff.

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For those that missed the little Amphora mesh how-to I did, here's the link below.

viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2209

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by **Sam.** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:14 am

Looks great mate well done!

Time to start running some hooch through it

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:18 am

Thanks mate. Just waiting on my burner to arrive from the states. :angry-banghead: :angry-banghead:

Fuckin' like a kid on chrissie day at the moment. All excited n' shit. :))

:text-thankyoublue:

by **blond.chap** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:27 am

Nice one, very pretty toy

by **googe** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:32 am

Bout bloody time ;-) :laughing-rolling: Looking good mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: , i like your colent system, very neat! :-D . I really like your parrot with the tee for suport to :handgestures-thumbupleft: .

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:44 am

googe wrote:Bout bloody time ;-) :laughing-rolling: Looking good mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: , i like your colent system, very neat! :-D . I really like your parrot with the tee for suport to :handgestures-thumbupleft: .

:)) :)) Yeah, its taken a while but wife n kids n buyin houses n all that sort of stuff takes up a lot of time and fundage.

Im a fan of the parrot too. Shame about the wobbly lookin' bit of pipe above the tee but i'll be swapping that out soon as it looks a bit shitty.

Cheers mate. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **crow** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:43 pm

looking top notch :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **Gas on** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:01 pm

sweet bit of kit you got there cam :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:04 pm

Thanks guys! :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **MacStill** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:21 pm

:scared-eek:

Fuckin hell Andy

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

by **Gas on** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:22 pm

Geez andy! :)) :)) bit of control :)) :))

by **JayD** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:25 pm

Well done... :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **Camikaze** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:27 pm

:wtf: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

:chores-mop:

by **bear74** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:59 pm

that looks like a great bit of kit mate!

bear