i bought this old still at a yard sale for $5 a few years ago.
not much use for it at the time but it seems like a "fun buy" for the money.last summer i really started using to make distilled water for developing film at home.now my wife wants the water for our plants we brought in for the winter so i'm running it every other night to make about five gallons a week.
we have a good source of spring water just down the street at Cold Water Spring and about 30 gallons of rain water in the basement that was for the plants.i have found a stock pot that fits over the top of the still so i could use a camp stove to boil water into the condenser if the power was off and we needed drinking water otherwise i could just run it if the power was on and get drinking water that way.