Pint_o_Shine_12_Gallon_Copper_Pot_Still.pdf

Pint O Shine’s 6 Gallon Pot Still Design

and Template

Upsized to 12 Gallon Still on a 36”x56” sheet

Warning!

I assume no responsibility to the use or accuracy of this document. It is intended for

educational purposes only. I maintain all copyright ownership for all my original work.

This document may be used freely and circulated freely but may not be sold for profit, or

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Upsizing to 12 gallons, and new layout, by The Husker Distiller.

Design Considerations

When I decided to design the 6 gallon, copper pot still, I had few criteria in mind. First I

wanted to fit the whole thing on a single half sheet of copper. A half sheet is usually 3’ x

4’. This size sheet is readily available by internet order. I have limited tools and limited

skills at metal working so I decided to imitate a construction style found in the book:

“More Mountain Spirits” by Joseph Earl Dabney.

I selected the Kentucky Still as my design. I research standard sheet metal layout patterns

for cones thinking I could use one of those to create my templates. I was wrong in

thinking the existing layout guidelines were accurate enough to make even cone sections.

I later learned that the shape I was in need of to construct the still was actually called a

frustum. A frustum is a right cone in which the top has been cut off parallel to the base of

the cone.

I derived a series of calculations to allow me to lay out the flattened frustum in a drawing

program to allow me to generate templates.

Another design criteria was that I wanted a small stove top model to be able to run

experimental 2 to 5 gallon batches.

The upsizing was done by Husker distiller. 6 gallon stills serve a purpose, but larger

ones also serve their own purpose. The copper sheet distributor I found on the web,

provides reasonable shipping charges for sheets, up to 56”. Thus this still was made to

fit as large as possible on a 36”x56” sheet. 12 gallons was able to be squeezed on to

that sheet, but the Flake stand did not fit. A diagram of how to make a 5 gallon flake

stand on an extra 17”x36” sheet has been included in this document. The flake stand

would not need to be made out of the thick 0.032 sheet. 0.025 would suffice.

Software used to create this document

I used Cadopia’s free version of IntelliCAD 2000 for Windows. I acquired this program

whenever they were still giving it away for free. It is a very nice AutoCAD v14

compatible program with All versions of windows I have used over the years. It has all

the standard AutoCAD functionality except for 3d rendering.

Of course Open Office Word Processor was used for the assembling the textual parts of

the document.

I use Photoshop v6.0, Paint, and ACD Systems ACDSee v3.1 to create and modify

graphics other than AutoCAD drawings.

The PDF file was generate using PDFCreator which is a free Open source PDF printer

driver and spooler with great functionality for assembling documents from lots of

different sources. I had difficulty running this in Vista but I figured out a work around.

Thank You for your interest and I hope it is useful for the

educational purposes in which it was intended.

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