Don't think that i have ever said this but i love you guys. You literally make it worth life worth living, you sons of bitches!

Salvage stores are your friend. Some of the deals you can get are absolutely insane.

BAESED AND TRVE

Rome owns the night

25lb 12oz no. 1 copper(I hide the burnt section in the middle of the box)

Have another 150lbs of brass in buckets and a few motors too. Might just mass up my haul and save for next year

Got a massive haul coming this week via the family farm

Few hundred pounds of aluminum and a couple tons of basic scrap

What do you use to strip them so well?

Glad you asked. Chink made stripping machine off amaZOG. Appalachian Rebel and I both bought one a year ago for around $50. You can hand crank it or put it in a drill chuck. Works well

Me and Rise use the same vevor brand wire strippers cause we are studs, we're ballsy. We don't have to strip wire with a knife like you! UHAGAHAGH

Found the tree and most the ornaments including this coon one in the St Vincent de Paul's Dumpster.

I worked construction and the electrician gets all the good shit id hide away all the old cuppernickle pipes we replaced but the wiring just dissapears when the wire guy pulls up

Banana brandy stripping runs today. I got 15 gallons of wash to run. Its tasting really good off the tap. This is about as fast as i can run a stripping run on the cheapo vevor 5 gal still cause the condenser doesnt have much knockdown power. any faster and you get liquor steam escaping even if you keep your condensing water cool.

My 3rd liquor run out of the cheapo vevor and so far my reflections on distilling are these:
1) Good in good out. I used to think you could use a still to take a bad hooch and turn it into decent swill. Maybe on a reflux still not sure. but not so for a pot still. Make a good wash and youll get good booze. My first two spirit runs i ran were 2 experimental batches i made with scraps that werent great. The wash was old and sitting on the yeast and sediment for like months. It smelled and tasted funky. I ran it and the booze concentrated the funky grossness.
2) Even if your still isnt dirty or corroded you should probably run vinegar then water after every batch. I got funkyness from batch 1 in the second batch i ran. I took everything apart and cleaned it all with soap and water, and it sat for a week. I did a vinegar run last night and guess what? A lot of funkyness from batch 1 came out with that vinegar. The following water run tasted clean.
Thats all i got so far.

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