Tubing comes next, Glass tubing is preferable, although an all-rubber construction is possible. One point of clarification. The small bottle will serve as the cooling jacket for the condensed vapor emitting from the larger box to the left of the diagram on the right. If you don't understand this technicality, do not worry. Just follow the directions.
Four holes must be drilled into the bottle, one on top, one on the bottom, and two on the sides. Into these holes, attach the tubing. Heat will fuse glass to glass. Another important point: the insulation, marked on the plans with vertical lines, must not be omitted. This can be made from cork, asbestos, or any other material with insulation characteristics. Cut the insulation to correct size, drill the necessary hole to allow the tubing to pass through, and glue to the tin box with some product that claims to make anything stick.
Nearing the Climax
Passing the tubing through the box on the left, through the insulation, through the bottle, and through the box on the right, glue everything together.
You have finished most of the work. The remaining chore is to run the two longer pieces of tubing from the bottle to the tin side. This is the cooling mechanism. The longer of the two pieces of tubing runs to the water-container, which you must make or procure and carry in another pocket. Any old flask will do modified to take a small piece of copper tubing.
Rubber tubing can be used to connect the two flasks. The more ingenious will find a means of hitching this to suspenders, belt, or some other support.
The shorter piece of tubing must ultimately lead to your mouth. By inhaling experts declare, you will force water to circulate in the cooling system. One point of caution: do not forget to circulate the water in the cooling system often. Once you have drawn the water in your mouth, spit it out.
The final step is to solder the sides of your still together. Soldering directions usually come with the Iron.
Whew!
Your still is finished. Procure yourself a method of heating it, and you're set for the trial run.
The more complex still, for which plans are still in the middle of the article, can be constructed by adapting these directions somewhat. The more versatile will have little trouble, and much less spitting.
For those who wish to preserve some social decorum, the still looks especially well when finished off with a crocodile skin cover. Monograms are in style too.
As Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, remarked yesterday. "In prohibition days there were many devices." Now there is no longer, any need for makeshift, unsafe devices. One last word of caution, however. The CRIMSON's consultants wish to point out that the entire process, of course, is highly illegal.
On Monday morning three kindly gentlemen turned up at the College and began to ask some penetrating questions. The men were from the Boston branch of the United States Treasury Department and they were interested in reports of stills at the College. They made no arrests, but warned against extreme outgrowths of the spirit of free enterprise.
The same evening the Associated Press carried this ominous despatch: "Boston, Nov. 19--A federal grand jury today indicted Manuel D. Craveiro of Seekonk on three charges of liquor law violations. The charges stemmed from the operation of an illegal still in Seekonk last August."