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| Resonance77 |
 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: New geek on the block |
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| JaneBennet |
| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Krisitan, welcome to the forum! 
You might want to have a chat with William McCormick here – he’s also crazy about electricity. He may have some very weird and wacky theories about science, but there’s no question that he can play with electricity. 
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| SuperNatendo |
| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: |
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Moonshine stills!
Awesome! Ever thought of using it to make ethanol for your car the way Gasoline is lately?
Or you could just use it the way its intended! Either way I used a stillery if I had one would make me happier!
Anyway, welcome to the Science Forum!
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| Resonance77 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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yup, moonshine stills. Here's my little pot still.
I haven't been able to run it since I moved from the farm to a more populated area two years ago. It's one of those things you don't want your neighbors poking around on you when your running. I can't run the propane burner inside, so I was thinking of adding some hot water heater elements inside the boiler and controlling the heat with my 3.6KVA variac in series on the hot input for inductive ballasting. Just one of the many things on the projects list that I haven't gotten around to. That and the food grade stainless steel welding that it would entail is a little beyond my mediocre welding skills.
I never made fuel out of it. I would mash and ferment corn and barley to between 5 to 8% abv. First run produced 55% abv. After a few first runs I would have enough to fill the boiler again and give it a second run where I would seperate the components (methane, acetone, ethyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, etc.) and keep only the good drinking stuff. This run would produce 85% abv. This would get diluted with distilled water to 65% and put on charred oak chips for about 6 months. Then it would be diluted to 45% abv and bottled for consumption. Made for some tasty home brew sour mash whiskey.
I did make a refraction still column for it that could produce 96.5% abv (isotropic, as pure as you can get without distilling under vacuum or using a molecular sieve). I never got a chance to use it though. It's sitting on a shelf in my basement, waiting for its chance to make some good old white lightning. I could probably run my lawn mower off that. I wouldn't put it in my car though. It would eventually eat through anything rubber or plastic, like seals and gaskets and whatnot. I would have to increase the richness of the fuel injectors and make timing adjustments and a bunch of other stuff I would never get around to figuring out . That and It takes about a week to produce 1 gallon of alcohol from this little still.
By the way thanks for the welcome, you guys.
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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Hello and welcome  .
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| Ophiolite |
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A further welcome.
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