My milk can arrived! It’s a fat little guy. I got one used for a little cheaper, it reeks of something. I think the former owner kept reefer in here it’s unbearably stinky.
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That is a nice milk can, Cody 
You mentioned earlier you wanted something to fit a strainer in, i don’t know if these are available in the states, but i think they should work perfect.
I don’t know what you call them, but direct translation from swedish would be: dairy plant unions.
Stainless steel, flanges weldable to what you want, the blue seal can be changed to something heat resistant. Very coarse thread, easy to disassemble, never get stuck.
I believe they could be find worldwide? They are always classified in inches?
Maybe suppliers for home-distilling sells them, i’ve seen them being used in that way?
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Oh a Sanitary Fitting! That seems like a good idea.
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I just remembered the name of the other type of this fittings: tri-clamp, should be even better.
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Ah yes I use triclamps a lot. Just need to find a right diameter one.
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Sealing this way
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That gives me an idea, I may be able to use a 3" PVC pipe union to hold the emergency filter. A Triclamp union would also work, I think.
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Swiss cheese! Now to weld in the nozzles.
Top row done.
Working on bottom row. Taking a break to find my tiny monkey wrench.
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Air jacket was being stubborn to slide back on. Used inertia of dropping the hearth and air jacket together on the ground to slide it on. Thumb got caught in between and broke my nail. OUCH. Bones don’t feel broken I’ll be alright after some R&R. I’ve got it wrapped up for padding so I don’t bump into something and do another Tarzan yell.
In better news my stainless pipe came in! It’s apparently some piping made for bar foot rests, fairly thick stuff it’ll make great hose barbs.
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still given the thumbs up I see 
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supper glue might help too, i droped my thin blade cutt off wheel on my corded 4-1/2" grinder last week, i think it went in by my midle finger nail a good 1/2–3/8", so i rinced it till bleeding slowed down, and then dried it enough too supper glue, about healed now week and half, lost a little surface skin, thats about all, and it keep the dirt out while healing below the supper glue. OCH.
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I’ve been putting on manuka honey gel and bandaids. I don’t think I’m gonna lose the nail, both halves are still attached to the cuticle.
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Not to worry Cody. I have the cure for everything.
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Alrighty, got the air jacket welded on, nozzles are all snug. Just need to weld in some pipe for an Air Inlet and then test for any leaks. I don’t think I have any but I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be wrong again.
Added a collar to the choke plate, I’m a little off center but I don’t think that’ll ruin anything, I hope.
I’ve been thinking that if I want to run this in Wet Char mode I can remove the choke plate for a 6" restriction.
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I think I’m going to go for a 9" diameter grate. 3/8" spacing between the angle iron sound about right?
I got some 3/4" angle iron, 1/8" thick.
Going to aim to gap the grate 1" away from the reduction tube.
I feel like 9" is enough, that’ll give me 1.5" overlap from the 6" reduction.
Edit: nevermind I found more bar stock and made a 12" hoop.
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Oops, ran out of angle iron. The core area will still be protected by the ash filling angle iron but I’ll have to finish with rebar.
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Every day I look at this truck and I’m mad I haven’t fixed it back up.
I want to redo the front end since the radiator support is ruined. Headlights are hanging on by a thread, too.
I’ve been trying to find guides on making a 1920s style hood, I think I could make one conform to the original cowl.
I’d basically be removing stuff in front of the firewall, keeping the cab itself. I also can’t get the driver’s door window to go up correctly no matter how much I adjust, I’m thinking of taking the glass out and putting arm rest caps over the top of the doors.
The windshield I bought for the truck also won’t fit because the frame for it is too mangled up. I’ll need to find someone that will buy it off of me. I’m thinking of going to my original plan for that as well, chop off the windshield frame and make an angle iron frame with plexiglass. My wipers will still work for that.
I’d just drop a new Mazda cab on the frame but nobody is selling a parts truck in my year range for cheap. I’m not as lucky as John Stout either with his Mighty Max.
I want a 4 piece hood, piano hinge in the top. Might as well make it easy to work on.
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SOUNDS interesting Cody-you might find a flat glass winshield out of older jeep or truck- though i caint think what model- it seem like i seen a vehicle with windshield. you could all ways weld in a windshield frame off a salvage truck at the yard.is it bent down by the hood or up by the roof.
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The whole topside is ruined since it landed tires up.
My hood doesn’t stay latched down all the way, and I’m afraid it’ll open up going down the road.
My radiator support has been warped since the first accident, before I had it running on charcoal. Fender bender in the front passengers side, resulted in totalling this truck.
I had replaced everything except the radiator support because it’s welded into place.
I don’t know if you’ve scrolled up to look but I chopped the roof off because it was also crushed. I added a roll bar last year.
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Cody keep an eye on market place as much as I don’t care for Facebook I just did a quick search with your zip code and found a few trucks less then 1000$ and several being parted out for pretty cheap. Could get all the parts to put your truck back together
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