Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Originally Posted by AlanQ

Pretty sure ill use it exclusively for "hand sanitizer" this batch is brandy flavored errr I mean scented because well I have a LOT homebrewed wine lying around and this is an emergency who cant wait to make mash? Though I am hoping to make some whiskey "scented" "sanitizer" at some point. I suppose I coud use to to distill water

Let us know how the Cognac turns out.....

Ive done 2 stripping runs so far will do a final one tomorrow with the cuts. Then I will have to age it for at least 10 years to make it an XO.
Ok it probably wont last a year if it is actually consumable but I wont know that until tomorrow

My parents always made wine, kinda why I got into doing it myself I guess. They made a plum wine that they tried a bottle once in a while they inevitably poured the bottle down the drain. The last bottle after 25 years however was excellent if only they had waited that long before tasting the first one.

My grandparents came from the Ukraine to northern Ontario around 1900. I’m told They used to make a cherry liquor by putting equal amounts of cherries and sugar in a large glass jar and letting it ferment in the sun. Apparently, somebody had a still to further process the results of the fermentation, but it has long since disappeared.

I’m certain they used it to make hand sanitizer

I was dragging my buffer out and the wife came out in the garage and asked if I was going to make a mess with the buffer again. I told her I'd try to figure out a way to contain the mess. So an hour or so later this is what I came up with...



Its bolted down in the box and I can put the whole thing back on the shelf where it belongs when I'm done with it. The box looks crooked in the picture but I swear it is square. Made out of some scrap I had laying around. A shop vac cleans up the mess in the box and now my mess is much less. SWMBO can be a real pain some days but I don't know what I'd do without her.

i hear ya Jerry, did you think of putting some ports in the back where you can hook the shop vac so it can be sucking dust while you are using it? I know the buffers we had in jewelry class had a dust collection system like that. Let us know how your set up works (looks good by the way).

I have a vacuum set up on mine with a very similar concept.

My shop vac is a 1-gallon unit. Don't know if it would have enough suction to help much. But I've seen some shop vac parts at Home depot. It might be worth looking into. Thanks for the ideas guys.

Nice looking unit Jerry!

The biggest mess I've found is applying the greaseless compounds. I just use a cardboard box with slots cut out for the shaft and another longer piece of the roof.

Otherwise it throws crap in a line up the wall, under the shelves and on the ceiling.

Before I made the shield, I did find that once dry the splatters easily scraped off what it had hit.

I agree with ya, Roy. Mess sticking on the wall and workbench. My wife likes to vacuum my garage so it's my job to try to keep the mess to a minimum. I tried the cereal box but it was just a pain to keep looking for it. The wife threw away a couple of them thinking they were trash. LOL.

Originally Posted by Gasman

I agree with ya, Roy. Mess sticking on the wall and workbench. My wife likes to vacuum my garage so it's my job to try to keep the mess to a minimum. I tried the cereal box but it was just a pain to keep looking for it. The wife threw away a couple of them thinking they were trash. LOL.

There is a first time for everything.

I have never heard of a wife wanting to vacuum a garage............