My 2" build

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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:36 pm

thanks mate. hopefully.
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Re: My 2" build

Postby C2H6O » Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:15 pm

Awesome outcome, you are a lot more patient than I am, I probably would have messed with it to much and ruined it.

Nice work
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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:18 pm

had the other coil plugged onto the tap overnight and just tipped a boiling kettle of water over it to heat up the water and cause a rapid expansion of the tube. water started bubbling out and then sugar slurry blasted into the air about 3 meters. I should of got it on film.
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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Thu Jun 12, 2014 2:48 pm

Gday.
had a bit more spare time lastnight and got a box made up for the element wiring and sorted out my cooling water lines. The liebig will plug directly onto a garden hose and out of that into 10mm line into the condenser coil from there I will use it to water the garden at the moment. will eventually sort some type of recirculating pump out to use. I have fit an stainless steel compression elbow to the product line out of the liebig and eventually I will have a parrot hanging off that instead of the piece of tube. also I made a plate up with markings showing the valve position when its just at the stage when its about to open up like was suggested earlier.
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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Thu Jun 12, 2014 2:50 pm

one more picture of the cap I made to house the cooling coil. I machined up a band that fits over the 2 inch just nice then welded a 2mm thick disc on the top and polished it up.
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Re: My 2" build

Postby C2H6O » Thu Jun 12, 2014 3:09 pm

Now you're just showing off :teasing-neener: That looks bloody awesome!
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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:02 pm

yeh she come up pretty good. I just filled it up with 45 litres of 14 degree water and fired it up took 48 minutes to hit boil.
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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Sat Dec 10, 2016 4:55 pm

Hey all. I started this still build about 2 and a half years ago and have only ever run a bit of water through it to test it out. Ive recently gained interest in running it again and after some reading decided to make a pot Head for stripping runs. So over a couple of nights I turned this out. 2 inch pot Head with a 450mm long shotgun condenser. The shotgun has 5 x 1/2" tubes and 1" water inlets and outlets for easy hose connection.
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I fired up the boiler today and ran some water through it at full power (4.8 kw) to see how it ran. It knocked down all steam pretty easily with minimal waterflow. The last photo shows the stream of condensed steam from 4.8kw. Hopefully early in the new year I will get some time to strip a few washes then run it the reflux Head.
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Re: My 2" build

Postby TasSpirits » Sat Dec 10, 2016 4:59 pm

Nice work :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:07 pm

Thanks mate. Looking forward to giving it a run. Still have to churn out a parrot to direct couple to the end of the shotgun. Where abouts in Tas are you?
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Re: My 2" build

Postby TasSpirits » Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:22 pm

benmick6 wrote:Thanks mate. Looking forward to giving it a run. Still have to churn out a parrot to direct couple to the end of the shotgun. Where abouts in Tas are you?
Ben

Del City :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: My 2" build

Postby rumdidlydum » Sat Dec 10, 2016 6:20 pm

Great work mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: glad to see you got the motivation to put those staino fab skills to use :O)
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Re: My 2" build

Postby Dig Brinker » Sun Dec 11, 2016 5:14 am

Mmmm....Shiny :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Nice welding skills there.
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Re: My 2" build

Postby benmick6 » Sun Dec 11, 2016 6:27 pm

Thanks fellas.
TasSpirits wrote:
benmick6 wrote:Thanks mate. Looking forward to giving it a run. Still have to churn out a parrot to direct couple to the end of the shotgun. Where abouts in Tas are you?
Ben

Del City :handgestures-thumbupleft:


Never heard Deloraine refered to as city before :-D
Spreyton here.
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