Making Your Distiller

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Making Your Distillerby Kanoshimarion June 15, 2012

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Making Your Distiller ...........................................................................................................

Intro: Making Your Distiller ....................................................................................................

Step 1: The Ingredients ......................................................................................................

Step 2: Making the Base .....................................................................................................

Step 3: Creating the Top Base .................................................................................................

Step 4: The True Distiller - The Pipe ............................................................................................

Step 5: Assembling the True Distiller ............................................................................................ 1

Step 6: The Glass Set ....................................................................................................... 1

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Author:Kanoshimari

I'm a young mechatronics engeneering student that usually wastes my time reading good comics, drawing impossible projects and playing all the games ican.

Intro: Making Your DistillerWell my dear folks! I've very glad to be here since this is my first instructable ever! Today i'm going to teach you guys how to make a super-awesome chemical distillewhich is very usefull for getting chemical components (if you like chemistry) or for making some alcoholic drinks (if you like drinkin'). First, i must say that i'm Brazilian,i don't really domain the english language, so there might be some grammar mistakes around. I apologise you guys for that. I'll try to be as clear as possible.

WARNING: The distiller is a dangerous, but still, easy-to-use machice that allow you to separate liquid solutions made with different densities liquids. Since you might

burned trying to distilate something, i will not teach how to make certain chemical components neither how to make alcoholic drinks (although it's pretty easy). I strongrecommend using a protective suit while using the distiller, since you might burn yourself or make something worse.

The ingredients of this instructable are easy to find. I found them all in my house, and so i didn't really spent nothing. This instructable may look kinda confusing oucomplex, but it IS NOT. I haven't used ANY measurement at ANY time. All i did was being observer and using my own eye to "measure" things. So i guess everybodyhere can do so!

The how-to-use steps and advices are at the end of this Instructable.PLEASE, I BEG YOU! READ THEM!

Let's BEGIN!

Image Notes1. This is where the hot water comes out.

2. This is where the cooling water come in.

3. This is the Solution System. Your solution will begin here.4. The Distiller base, it is very important.5. This is where you'll collect your product.

Step 1:The IngredientsIn order to make our super awesome distiller, whe will need the following itens:

- A PVC pipe. It doesn't really matter the size, it have to be big.- A flat and big wood piece;- 5 flat, thin and long wood pieces;- 2 short and thin wood pieces;- 4 flat "rectangle shaped" wood pieces;

- A lot of screws, i recommend medium sized ones;- A Drill;- A very thin tube. Twice the size of the PVC pipe. Preferably transparent;- An empty jar of olives, picles, or whatever;- Something like a strainer (Optional);- A few rubber pieces (Optional);- Something like a strainer that attaches to the jar top;- Silver tape;- Metal Wire (or any other kind of wire)
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Image Notes1. 2 short and thin pieces of wood.2. The PVC Pipe.3. 4 pieces of wood. Large and flat.4. 5 pieces of wood. Long, thin and flat.5. Jar.6. I don't know what this is, it's the "strainer" thing i told you.7. Some pieces to attach the jar to the tube.

8. Black rubber pieces.9. Screws. Medium size.10. The other "strainer" thing that attaches of the top of the jar.11. The main base. A big and flat wood piece.12. Some metal wire.13. The tube. Twice the size of the PVC.14. A drill.

Step 2:Making the BaseNow, to make the base you'll need to get your drill and the biggest piece of wood. Then, make four holes on it. Making sure to be similar to the image. Certificate (withyour eyes or with a ruler) that the distance between holes 1 and 2 are the same between holes 3 and 4. You can see in the image that there are already screws on theholes 1 and 3. Find a screw that fits all the four holes, and put them all. Like the next image.

After making your base look like the second image, grab the 5 long and thin wood pieces and make a hole on the bottom of 4 of them. Make the holes in similar placesTry to center the hole right in the middle of the bottom. Now, as you can see, you have the 4 pieces of wood with holes on the bottom. Simply attach each wood piece each one of the 4 screws at the main base. Be careful to make it the most symmetrical as you can, i t will help in the next steps.

Now, you can see that the 4 wood pieces are kinda wobbly, which means you have to make them more stable, otherwise this distiller won't be safe for use. For this, ware going use the 2 short and thin wood pieces we got before. As you can see in the image, you must find a way to put this little piece inside the 4 sticks and screw thetogether, making somekind of connection between the long pieces. Do it on the first side, connecting pieces 1 and 2, just as the images shows, and repeat on theotherside, connecting pieces 3 and 4. Trying to keep symmetrical as possible is the key for doing it.

Once it's done, you'll see the base is more stable, but still a bit wobbly, so we must repair this. Just grab 2 of the 4 flat and large wood pieces and screw them togethewith the long pieces. Once again find a suitable position near the main base and then screw them on the outside part. It will connect the longest pieces once again.Remember to connect pieces 1 and 2, and then repeat the process to connect 3 and 4. It must be like the images, so if you've done it right, you'll see that our base isalmost stable.

Image Notes Image Notes


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1. Hole 12. Hole 23. Hole 44. Ignore this hole. It was already there when i got the wood.5. Ignore this hole. It was already there when i got the wood.6. Hole 3

1. Screw 12. Screw 23. Screw 34. Screw 4

Image Notes1. Make a hole in the middle of the bottom.

Image Notes1. Piece Hole 12. Piece Hole 23. Piece Hole 34. Piece Hole 4

Image Notes1. Piece 22. Piece 13. Piece 3

Image Notes1. Piece 12. Piece 23. Screw here.4. And screw here.5. Short and Thinwood piece


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4. Piece 45. The 4 Wood Pieces - Long and Flat

Image Notes1. Screw2. That's how it should be when you finish.3. Screw

Image Notes1. Piece 12. Piece 23. Piece 3

4. Piece 45. Connection 26. Connection 17. That's how the whole thing should be!8. That's how the whole thing should be!9. That's how the whole thing should be!10. That's how the whole thing should be!11. That's how the whole thing should be!12. That's how the whole thing should be!

Step 3:Creating the Top BaseOk, so once you got all the other steps ready, you'll realize that the base isn't stable yet, it probably shakes and that can kill you. Seriously, it can kill you. So. Safety fiTo complete the base and give it a bit more stability, we are going to create the top. It will make it steady and will make the inclination that we need to put the PVC pipon.

First, you must get the remaining pieces of the 4 flat and large pieces of wood (the ones you used to firm the main base). Now that you used 2 of them, you'll get theother 2 and the other last long and thin piece that you had. So if you got it right, you must have three pieces now. You must fit them in the order flat-long-flat, just as th

image shows. Make sure to not link them on the middle, they must be attached to each other by the bottom, according to the image. Screw one side, and then repeat toperation on the other side. This set should be firm.

Once the top base is firm and complete, it's time to attach it to the other base you made before. You must put it inside the 4 sticks, and then tilt it a little bit in order to gsome inclination (this will help the water flows through the pipe). From 35 to 38 degrees should be enough. You don't really need a compass to make it right, remembeuse your eye. Try some inclinations, and then, when you think it's nice, screw the sticks onto the flat and large pieces in order to fix them together. The images clearlyshow how it got to be made. Remember to do it on both sides, keeping the symmetry.

You can fix the inclination by attaching one stick on a upper part of the flat piece, and the correspondent stick on a lower part of the flat piece. Just take a look at theimages!

Now that they're fixed together, you'll see that our main base is finally complete! It has the inclination on the top, a steady bottom and if you manage to understand whto do (and done it right), it should be much much more stable now. So, you might want to take a look on this step's last image. Your main base should look similar to itit does, great! Time to keep on with our super-awesome distiller!


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Image Notes1. Flat Large2. Flat Large3. Thin and Long

Image Notes1. Make a hole here2. Just ignore this holes. They weren't suppose to be there3. Make a hole here too4. We'll talk about this hole later, don't worry!

Image Notes1. Screw here2. Screw here3. This is how it must look like if you got it right!

Image Notes1. You will fix them here. NOW it's time to make the holes that you saw on theprevious image.2. Inclination3. And also here4. They aren't cool vinils. Just stuff from my childhood.


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Image Notes

1. Screw attached on the upper part of the wood piece2. Screw attached on the lower part of the wood piece

Image Notes1. Try to keep symmetry and inclination, they are the main key for safety

Image Notes1. Inclinated top base finalized2. Steady thing3. Another steady thing


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Step 4:The True Distiller - The PipeWell, now it's time to make the true distiller set. The base was just a thing to make the true distiller be inclined and working fine. Now, we must get our PVC pipe.

The first thing we need to do is boring a hole on the top part of the PVC pipe. This hole must be of the same size of the smallest part of your strainer. This is going to bwhere the water will be placed. Use your drill to make this hole, and try to attach your strainer to it. If the hole gets bigger than the strainer's tip you might need some hglue or silver tape to close it firmly, in order to avoid water leaking. So, when you fix the strainer it should look like the image.

Similarly, make another hole on the bottom of the PVC pipe. Make a smaller hole than the first one, and on this one insert some tube that can be closed (i used a kitchspice plastic recipient). This is your water dispenser. It's used to throw away the old and hot water, in order to replace with cold and new water. It must be on the opposide of the strainer.

Once it's done, you must seal the bottom of the PVC pipe, so the water won't leak it all before getting started. For this you can use a lot of different things to close it: stape, clay, hot glue (not recommended). I used a piece of wood with the same size as the gap of the PVC pipe, and then used some tape to stanch the water fromdroping. Of course i left a hole with the exact size of the tube in order to not completely close the hole. This might be the hardest step. It's must be really shut! Take a

good look on the image.

CHECK IT MORE THEN TWICE. IT CAN'T LEAK.

Be sure to check again and let the biggest part of the tube to the upper part. Once you done it all, your distiller is done. Now it's time to assemble them all together!

Image Notes1. The PVC Pipe

Image Notes1. Make a hole that matches with your strainer

Image Notes1. The Strainer2. You must attach it perfectly to avoid water leaking.

Image Notes1. The strainer is fitted here safely and firmly2. See how the water dispenser is reverse to the strainer


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Image Notes1. Here is the hole i made on the wood piece, so i could get my tube into it2. There is the piece of wood that closed the hole

Image Notes1. The Water Dispenser2. The Strainer3. The Tube (mine is not transparent, didn't found one)

Image Notes1. Start by pushing the tube into the bottom, just like this

Image Notes1. Keep pushing it until it reaches the otherside, then pull the tube from there

Image Notes1. The bottom should look like this...

Image Notes1. ...and the upper part should look like this!


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Step 5:Assembling the True DistillerNow, this might be the easiest part. Take a look at the images. It's very simple! Just make a hole across the upper part of the PVC pipe, a bit above the strainer, and aon the upper part of the inclinated base. Then just tie them together with the metal wire, just as the image sequence shows! This will keep the PVC pipe on place, withnecessary inclination to work fine.

Image Notes1. Make this hole right here

Image Notes1. One hole across the PVC pipe2. One hole across the long and thin wood piece

Image Notes

1. Tie them together with some metal wire

Image Notes

1. This is enough to firmly hold the distiller onto the base

Step 6:The Glass SetThe last step is making the glass set to the distiller. It is with it that you are going to heat up some cool solutions and make things blow up! (I really hope that none of yguys do so).

We are going to use 2 olive old jars. This part is also simple as the previous one. Using the images as reference, and use the objects that you collected to createsomekind of converting tube, which will make the hole of the first jar becoming of the same size as the tube is. And most importantly, really well shut! I was kinda lucso i got somethings that fit just perfectly. But if you don't find it, don't be upset, you can keep looking for it or force your pieces to fit with some silver tape (DO NOT USHOT GLUE, SINCE YOU'LL HEAT THE JAR). As you can see on the images, it's pretty simple.

Tip: try to use things that looks like strainers, they usually help.

Unfortunately i can't reeeally help you guys with this part, since the components i got are really odd. But you might find somethings as well. This is the part where youmust be CREATIVE and see what you can work out!


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-------------------------- REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF --------------------------:

This is a homemade distiller. You mustuse by your own risk! The olive jar glassis not the proper one to make this kind of experiment, so be careful, it can blow uwith the over heating! Do not use it near flamable objects, neither use it without a support equipment. If you're not sure of what you're doing, maybe it's good to haveextinguisher with you. If you want to try this more safely, buy the proper glass flasks to make chemical experiments, it's not that expensive.

--------------------------HOW TO USE THE DISTILLER----------------------------:

1 - First, fill the PVC pipe with really cold water and some ice. You can do that by the upper strainer next to the top.

2 - Then, put the solution you want to distill into the first flask, and heat it up with a heat source;

You can use a big variety of things to heat it up, like ember or some candles. Iusually use my own stove, but that's not really safe. If you want to use a very safe thing,you can try a electrical thermal blanket, it will work too.

3 - When your liquid begins to evaporate, the less dense part of it will rise through the tube and when it reaches the cold PVC pipe it will condense itself. Then, it will dthrough the tube until it drops into the second flask.

4 - When the PVC pipe water gets too warm you'll need to change it in order to maintain the condensation. So, with an empty flask, open the lower strainer to remove pipe's water. Once removed, close it and fill the PVC pipe once again with cold water and ice.

5 - When finished, it is very important to empty the whole set. That is, the flasks and the PVC pipe. Be sure to dry it when stopping using.

6 - If you will use it again, you must wash the inner tube. For that, throw a little amount of detergent and water, and then try distill some water. The boiling water shouldclean the tube from inside, making it avaible to be used once again, without changing the solution properties!

7 - Have lots of fun!

I really want to thank everybody who have read this instructable! It was a really hard work making it, took me a few hours taking photographs and settingeverything up! Depending on how much you guys like it, i will put some more cool stuff here!

Thanks a lot.

Image Notes1. Olive old jar2. Something like a tiny plastic strainer3. I don't have any clue of what this is4. A detergent cover

Image Notes1. A lucky perfect fit!


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Image Notes1. :D

Image Notes1. This thing shut really tight, it was a great luck of mine

Image Notes1. It was funny how it seemed to be made to it!

Image Notes1. This part didn't fit at all, so everytime i want to use my distiller, i put the liquidfrom here and than shut with some tape

Image Notes1. IT IS DONE!


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