Ok if you got the turkey burner in hand you do not need a crock pot sitting on the kitchen stove. Save up and buy a real still. Aint you got no plastic? Poor guy. Sure Rick at Brewhaus most likely has an EZ Pay tote the note plan. In fact when I hit him up on this deal I was directly connected to the credit manager named Helen Waite. Real nice lady. Sure Scotty would most likely co-sign maybe. Think I will hit him up myself when I decide to get the Harley or a Wing Banger etc. Kindly keeps us informed as events unfurl themselves. Thanks.

I have no idea how you would ever get that pot to seal. I have always run a thumper which causes some back pressure. Maybe without it sealing is less important.
While i don't agree with wheels flippant use the of term "real still" which i think ive pretty clearly shown that all of us have or none of us have i do agree in the long run you will happier if you get a purpose made boiler.
The turkey burner is way overkill. Now you need a 13-15gallon boiler and a 2-3" column to go with it.

Thanks for being a prick, bigwheel. You really opened my eyes to how bad the design was. I'll go buy the best, real still that I can find!

"Just my 2 cents worth.
I bought a ""still"" online, from one of those sites that keeps closing and opening up under a different name. It never seemed to produce any where near the quantity/quality they advertised. I modified it, even designed and built a few other stills, it was fun and I learned a lot along the way with the help of people on this site and a few others.
My design was simple 3/4"" copper male fitting threaded into a brass flange, bought 1/8"" rubber flange gasket material stainless bolts into the 3 gallon and a 5 gallon stainless stock pot lid, with a 3/4 hole punched it it. Foam seal thrown out after each use and spring clamps holding the lid tight. Family dollar is dirt cheep on 3 and 5 gallon stainless stock pots. I ordered a (I believe lead free) brass flange online fairly inexpensive.
At the top of the 3/4"" pipe a 3/4"" x 1/2"" x 1/2"" tee. A rubber bung 1/2"" and thermometer out the top. The other tee a short piece of pipe a 45 deg fitting then a Liebig condenser (1"" copper with a 1"" x 1/2"" reducer on each end. 1/2"" solid pipe through the reducers and 1/4"" copper drilled and soldered for the coolant lines) a small circulation pump in a 40 qt cooler lasted for a 3 gallon run. It was fun and I learned the basics and theory, and the product was drinkable!

I recently received a Brewhaus still I ordered and wow the difference it made! Increased yield in less time and a higher quality product!
Looking back, building the still was fun and I learned a lot. If I put all the money spent making that still something it wasn't, towards the Brewhaus model I bought or even a smaller unit, it would have been pretty close to paid for. I heard a lot of people say on this forum and others (save your money and buy what you will end up with in the long run anyway).
I guess I had to go down that road and see where it went for myself but I'm very glad I bought the Brewhaus model.

Again just my 2 cents and experience, or lack there of!"

Yes..all us type B endomorphs will agree with you. That just leaves the dedicated type A wannabe injuneer tinkers..piddlers and fiddlers to take the opposing view. Apparently the highest calling of some is to turn a crockpot into a hooch maker. Who can know the mind of man? lol.

But but but..that leave some old non-mechanical minded folks in a hooch free condition. That would be krewlish and unusual or similar.

Just ordered an easystill Hope it's a good beginner device. I made a quick wine with 3.5 cups of sugar, 14 cups of water, and a tablespoon of yeast. When it gets here I'll toss it in and open a new thread.

All you needed was a boiler and you were on your way. Instead you spent more then the boiler would have cost and can only do a few quarts of wash at a time. I don't get it.

"

I am tring to build a similar pot. I am tring to get an idea on what you are refering to on the incline. the question have on 3/4 column to your 3/8"" condenser, you said ""No need for a straight drop before the worm. You can run an incline or decline to the worm"" and ""incline gives you a little natural reflux as the vapor cools and travels back to and down the column as liquid"". or you talking about the worm sitting above the consider? emample the top of the coumn from the ground 40"" and say the incline on 3/8"" line going to the worm and the worm its self could be somethimg like 5' or 6' from the ground would that to much of an incline. would this be close and would it give a good reflux. thanks for any info or input"

"
the top of the stove is constant, the oven, however, cycles because of the use of a thermostat, same reason those hot plates cycle. The stove top elements are like you said, ran by rheostats. The oven, like a house is a confined space, without a thermostat, even with a set temperature, it would get hotter and hotter- like a still does."