I have the impact driver as well, got them together in a sale, they do work well, built my basement and workshop and shed with them. As well as make STS 
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She likes that impact driver for putting in deck screws and puts everything together with those 3 and 3.5" ones. She can control it better and not chew out the screw holes and bugger up the #2 Robertson tips so bad. I got her some good hardened steel tips and now sheās in gear. lol
Got my plastic on and may have to make a few alterations yet but it should work. I have to find something to use as a hard cap for when it snows. I just tied yarn across to act as rafters to support the plastic. Iāll put some pics up in my thread.
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I am building a pallet fence at the bottom of my property ATM, the impact gun has no problem winding in 4 and a half inch screws. I think they do 2 types mine is the heavy duty one, I can take off and put on wheel nuts with it when I change my tires over to winters. I also use it to wind the jack up and down. The drill gets used constantly for de gassing my wine, and the batteries are still good after 6 years, had to replace the charger though, that died for some reason one winter when I left it out in the workshop 
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I have a half inch drive air impact wrench to handle the wheel nuts but nice to know it can take that kind of abuse.
Got my distiller today and put it in the shop with about a litre of water in to test it out and it worked OK. Tomorrow I;ll try it out with the camp stove fuel out in the carport with a fire extinguisher standing by. I hope that seal can take naphtha ok and think Iāll test it with a bit of lighter fluid first as they are the same solvent. Pretty sure itās silicon and should be just fine. Nice extensive owners manual eh. Another use for my magnifying glass. lol
Was doing another bug check on the plants and found one thrip on one of the big ones so sprayed them both down good then checked the smaller ones and damned if I didnāt find one more. Fack!
Wish Iād picked up some booze in town today as I feel like getting pissed instead of pissed off. Grrr . . .
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Yeah those seals are silicone, should be ok with lighter fluid I would think.
I keep finding one or 2 thrip larvae on mine as well, canāt see any adults, but they hide well, little barstards.
My alcohol tolerance is dropping, I had a beer the other night and was getting a good buzz off it. I hope I donāt have a liver problem, actually I should know shortly had the yearly bloods and urine tests the other day. I just hope my blood sugar levels after fasting are better than last yearās, after removing sugar and sugar substitutes from my coffee and tea. I am not worried about cholesterol, the standard test is flawed and in accurate, from what I have read.
Got some nice weather for the next 6 days might paint my deck today did it last year around this time and after shoveling the snow off it all winter it wasnāt much better than before I did it come spring time.
I started some seeds Thursday night 3 Ogers and 3 Sour Deisel x Snow Lotus, from MongoBongos seed runs. All the Snow Lotus have split and will be going into soil this morning. Hoping the Ogers will crack shortly as well.
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Been a couple years at least since Iāve had a regular physical or blood work done. Iām not worried about cholesterol either. Even the FDA has come out saying that higher levels are healthier for us as we age and may protect against dementia as the brain is made up of mostly cholesterol. Still my doc wants me to go on pharma drugs to lower it and itās just a bit on what they consider the high side. No thanks and I fry my eggs in real butter or the oil from bacon or sausages too. Eating a lot of hemp hearts these days and bought a 5gal pail of them, 20lbs, for $6 a pound. At the store here a half pound bag is $11! Free shipping too.
Pissing rain today and have the plastic over the top but open in the front. 64F and 78% RH today. Sunny and warmer by Tuesday tho and nice for a while.
My big plants need a good feed and water today so will give them each a half dose of their respective bloom boosters along with base nutes and plan to flip in a week. The AN fed plant seems to be bushier and darker green than the MegaCrop fed one.
I canāt decide how to proceed with distilling some camp stove fuel. Start with a litre and see how that goes or pour the whole can in there and let it rip. Iāll set the max temp at 75C and see whatās left after it does itās run. I wish this thing had an internal temp probe so I could monitor that. When I ran it in my DIY still I had a thermometer at the top of the still head and it boils off most in the range of 70 - 74C so 75 should be a good setting but might be too low. I also want to attach a tube from the exit of the cooling coil instead of having it drip into the snout then drain from there. Should reduce losses due to the rapid evaporation of naphtha. The cheaper camp stove fuel boiled off around 85C so always buy Colemanās!
I need to start some seeds too. Too many choices tho but I really want to start some of these Sugar Black Rose I got from my buddy in the city. Really nice sedative effect and tasty stuff.
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I run a pipe off mine but from the collected filter part never thought of taking that bit off and going straight to the end of the condensing tube. I will have to check that out.
I am not sure where the temp sensor is in the distiller, I assumed it was in the head as thatās where it should be for accuracy. You never know with these things if the design is intelligent or not 
I would just do a liter and see what you get from that, then you should know what to expect from larger amounts and when to power off, it will self regulate itās temp but not sure how much the temp rises over the set point, after it shuts off.
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I know what to expect and thatās disaster! I had about a litre of stuff Iād already purified so I put that in and it wasnāt 5 min and it was just pissing thru the tube I attached. Seconds later it was blowing out all around the seal and running down the side so I unplugged it quick and a couple min later took the top off. The seal was all wrinkled up and so loose it just came right off. As the naphtha evaporated off it and out of it it has shrunk back to fit properly and looks normal again.
Thereās $200 Iāll never see again. Should be fine for alcohol but sure wonāt work for a petroleum solvent. I knew deep down this wasnāt likely to work but being lazy I figured if it did work it would make life easier. Damn!
Kids. donāt try this at home! lol
Any thoughts about what kind of excuse I could use to send this thing back? Worked fine with water and Iād need to go buy some EverClear to see if it works with that OK then Iād be off on a 3 day drunk knowing me and booze.
Guess itās time to set up my DIY still and get cooking.
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Bummer thatās a shame, if you got it from Amazon you donāt need an excuse lol. Just tell them it leaked alcohol, and you donāt trust it, to not to blow up your house.
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Maybe Iāll try running some 99% ISO thru it and see what happens. Not having any luck finding any seals made out of different materials tho the ones that fit are very common. None of them say what they are made out of tho. If it was silicon as I assumed it should have worked fine. If I could find a better gasket I could use it with my variac to bring the heat up slower too as I think that thing is just full on until it gets to itās target heat. It boiled way to fast with naphtha in it.
Might just sent it back before I bugger it up. For $200 I could get a 4L boiling ball and use my lab still or spend the money on something else and just keep using my DIY one.
While looking around I stumbled on the Polar Bear distiller site. They sell the same model one I have refurbished for $1,500 so I should fix mine up and get $1000 for it easy enough. I also have the on-demand pump and pressure tank that they sell for $500 and doesnāt come with that used unit. New element is $85 and it needs one of those plus a few hours of elbow grease and it should look and work like new. Think Iāll call them and maybe work a trade for a decent RO system that they sell too. Their store is in Edmonton so good excuse for a road trip to the big city 5 hours away.
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Trippy Hippy had a similar problem with his gasket, it would stretch or roll when he put the lid on and would leak fumes.
There is a thread on here for distilling and someone was also having similar problems, but they were using a water distiller for alcohol I think, with no temp control.
I believe they do go full on until they hit temp and then itās just on and off to cotroll it.
How much does camp fuel expand in volume when heated, perhaps itās just over flowing the top but if you only used a liter then it would not be worth using less to try and control it.
Just looked at your old unit on that site, thatās an impressive looking bit of kit.
ISO is fairly cheap Costco sells 2 liters for $22 if you can get it ATM they had some back in stock here a couple of weeks back. The horrible smell disappeared after the first run through. It would also stop your desire to drink it, as with everclear.
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Weedly Update.
weather is up and down at the moment but the nights are cooling off. Hanging around 21-24C daytime and the RH has been high but today its dropped thankfully. So the plants have been fairly stable without the aircon on in the house.
In the clone cab we have 2 of the 3 SDXSL above ground, I lost one putting it in the hole in the soil I made, it dropped in upside down so I tried to remove it to put it in the right way and its vanished lol, A seed with a 1 inch tap root disappeared in half a party cup of soil. I emptied the soil out and went through it, no seed or root to be found either together or separate wtf? So I put another 2 in to soak, 2 of the 3 Ogers cracked and they have gone into soil yesterday 1 of them is above ground waiting on the other. I added 2 more Ogers seeds to soak as well.
The 3 GDP clones are going well I will top or fim them this week, to slow them down a bit, the one that came out after those 3 is maintaining its status quo of not quite dead yet lol.
In the Veg tent, the PK on the left, I thought were coming to an end at 9 weeks but seem to be still growing a bit more bud, and the dark Sparks coming up to 6 weeks are stretching a lot, so I pulled their tops over with a bit of wire and the lower branches are now developing a bit.
The front 4 plants, the PK left top is looking like it has a cola starting to develop but the other is done to a crisp lol. The DS are improving, the fron one is gaining good size now
Close up of the best PK.
In the Flower Room.
The OG and GDP starting to make small buds, I am thinning the leaves out a bit every day, I am not seeing any male flower development yet on either, they will get another spray today.
Cheers for looking.
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II have just chopped the the eldest PK that was burned to a crisp, well actually just pulled it out, there was not much holding it in lol. I must say it smells absolutely amazing, trichs are mostly milky a couple of amber here and there. I think when its trimmed and dried I might get a couple of grams off it Looking forward to seeing what the rest do, probably another couple of weeks before they are done, might end up with 12-15 grams total for the 4.
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Hahaha that last one is brutal, poor little bugger
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They all didnāt stand a chance really in that soil. The gypsum dust that got on this ones leaves and burned them up was the the final straw, she couldnāt photosinthesize with no leaves poor thing, I had to put her out of her misery 
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Thanks for checking out my grow man, that was a lot of reading you did, I appreciate all the likes. I hope there was something of value for you, even if it just gave you a laugh and information of what not to do 
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It took me a couple days, but I read the entire thread, lol.
Thereās something about your style of growing that I really like. I used to grow in amended āwater onlyā organic soil in fabric pots with living mulch, so I enjoy seeing people using any or all those elements in their grows 
So yeah, I got a lot of nostalgia too. I enjoyed the read, and then subscribed
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Thanks for the appreciation.
I think my style is a bit haphazard, and go with my intuition using constant experimentation, and if it works in my environment, use it, if I can remember to lol. I start thinking what I want to do, then change course before I even start sometimes, due to circumstances out of my control or lack of knowledge. I think its called flying by the seat of your pants lol.
Your plants look really good, I wish mine were doing as well atm, the change of lights screwed me up a bit this year,still trying to find the sweet spot, I just seen you have some grow journals going I will check them out
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I am constantly experimenting, changing things up, and tinkering.
Itās half the fun, right?
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Yes sir, and why I love growing, its a constant learning process and learning is fun, once you have understood and learned the lesson lolā¦
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