RSS
Neat article about stills- For those with a taste for something a little more traditional, we would point you to this site, which offers handcrafted copper stills of the sort traditionally favored by Ozark mountain moonshiners. For hard-core hobbiests, you could even build your own stills: instructions can be found online, some sophisticated, some wildly inventive, and some probably suicidal. There is a long tradition of making stills out of anything at hand — during the Second World War soldiers used to make stills out of salvaged parts and automobile radiators — but caution must be exercised.[via] Link.
Still making...
Neat article about stills- For those with a taste for something a little more traditional, we would point you to this site, which offers handcrafted copper stills of the sort traditionally favored by Ozark mountain moonshiners. For hard-core hobbiests, you could even build your own stills: instructions can be found online, some sophisticated, some wildly inventive, and some probably suicidal. There is a long tradition of making stills out of anything at hand — during the Second World War soldiers used to make stills out of salvaged parts and automobile radiators — but caution must be exercised.[via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 17, 2005 11:27 AM
|
Permalink
| Comments (3)
| Email This |
| Digg this!
Recent Entries
- CRAFT weekly recap
- 8-bit touch-sensitive handheld
- Cigar box music player
- The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes
- Building a folding table
- Maker Shed weekly wrap-up
- The Chumby has landed!
- Brainwave sofa by Unfold & Lucas Maassen
- Full MIDI drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band drums
- Hole punched art
Comments
Oldest comments listed first.
Leave a comment
Subscribe to MAKE Magazine!
Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available only to subscribers.
$34.95 / 1 year
(4 Quarterly Issues)
a couple photos of a super cheap still all made from home depot parts in about twenty minutes.
Super Cheap Still
Reply to this comment
What does everyone think about making a still out of a stainless steel fire extinguisher. I will be sure to clean thoroughly and research the previous chemical contents, but from what I have read so far, some of extinguishing compounds are fairly harmless (various bicarbonates). I am new to this and very cautious about the chemical safety in general (methyl alcohol, early fraction contents, etc). Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Reply to this comment
if you use a fire extinguisher try to get 1 that only uses water and c 0 2 that would be pretty safeif you can make one would you tell me how u made it if u dont mind
Reply to this comment