Billy buck making moonshine still.
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2013
- Billy has been making moonshine stills for years.He showed Jim Tom, one of the stars on the TV show MOONSHINERS how to make stills. Billy,and Jime Tom Grew up together. Both are crazy ass hell, but good people.
boys, i have to say after 47 years of doing sheet metal fab., this vid made me draw up. the soldering was a farce and very wasteful. no wonder they had leaks. i'm thinking they used acid or rosin core with out flux. however , one must give them points for effort and patience. if you have done any research on buying or making your own pot still, you will be aware of the more techie procedures of laying out patterns on paper to avoid waste of material. again i rate the a for effort. but from experiences of my own, i agree with plumber on the lead free solder and a proper paste flux.
remember, if you make a still you will be the one to take the first sample.
Even before finishing - these are gorgeous vessels.. Yeah, making plans to construct (1) as proto - and go from there.. Great barter, wherever you live if SHTF. Good vid, thanks.
Glwd you enjoyed the Video, but it was a little to long, and dwaun out
have you boys ever heard of flux ? and Food grade solder! It works . Jim Tom does give lessons made taking about 4 or 5 make help ..
man was that a leakey bastard never seen that thin of sodar used for a 25 gallon piss pot B4 lol
What is really sad is that the copper they're using is so damn expensive. You would think after doing this for so long they would know to sand and flux these things before trying to solder. They do a fine job of shaping just clean and flux. Please! I've been doing plumbing for 30 yeas or so and it is just a waste of time and money not to. When he mentions the tip is shot, at about 4:50 it is because he keeps turning the flame down. The one he's using is called a Turbo Torch and it is made to be run wide open, Like when it is first lit at 5:08. until 5:12 It actually keeps the flame away from the tip even though it is a hotter flame. You just keep the torch farther away from what you are working on. It isn't a little torch with the can of propane attached, which you can turn down real low, usually it is run on acetylene. at around 7:20 is a perfect example of a wrong joint see the way it beads around almost like mercury it should be sucked straight into that joint. But WTH, it is just a cooking pot. 11:30 oh well maybe not :P
I understand what you are saying. flux, and silver solder was used. Yea, the solder job sucks, but it wasnt built for show. It doesnt leak, and makes damn good shine.
Thomas Sellers I don't care about it looking good but if you watched the vid at all at 11:30 you would see it does leak and quite badly. I am mainly throwing out some tips on soldering I think I want people to know how it is done as there seems to be quite a few misconceptions about it. Even though it is very simple, Sand it and flux it and you will solder it. 90 percent of soldering is in the preparation which as I said they have got with the shaping and all Jesus 50 cents worth of sandpaper and flux would've saved them a shitload of sweat. And at 32:07 where they are soldering again, they are using it like "Bondo" solder isn't cheap you don't want to use that much of it.
Thomas Sellers I see no evidence of flux being used, not once does he add any on camera. And if he had some he would've!
What show/film is this from?
Dont try this At Home ..
lead free solder more then likely that you can pick up at most home improvement stores.
yup used for plumbing...
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even that lead free shit can be poison .. guess they never have heard of a food grade solder or flux
Try taking little slits sheared out of your copper sheet and TIG welding it. No solder only copper ;-)
Yep, you furnish the tig welder :)
Get a job
Paul Markham Get a job for what? You need to get a life.
Sorry for the bad advice.
coppermoonshinestills.com looks like they are built like that, at least copper welded somehow.
a video of a tv playing another video.....
Since when does solder throw sparks?
It looks like rosin core solder for electronics. The sparks are from the rosin burning. Looks the same as if they had used a separate paste flux, there is just not really enough of it for this large scale work.
duratoke
If it's for electronics then it could very well be lead based. But I won't say it is or isn't. Only that I've soldered a few copper pipes in my life and never had sparks of any kind.
duratoke it worked, thats all that matters it was silver solder
wcemichael I don't think they are really sparks I think it is just the rosin sputtering out some fire. It looks like electronic solder because of how thin It is. That stuff is often rosin cored. I see the same thing if I have put too much flux on a pipe joint. No big deal. Even electronic solder is now mostly lead free, just like gas and paint.
Thomas Sellers Now, how would you know? Check out the price of this silver solder at Grainger - 0.06 lbs. for 96.5% Tin, 3.0% Silver, 0.5% Copper for only 22.00. And that is only 3 percent! Now I don't know how much 0.06 lbs. is exactly, but I'm thinking it isn't anywhere near enough for this still. are you saying they will spend all that for silver solder and not buy a 4 dollar can of flux (HomeD) and that makes sense to you?