My discount still journey!

So I have a 5 gallon copper still that I assembled from a kit (solder, all that) with a jacket condenser, and I thought, "how cheap can I do this?". Not really full post-apocalypse, but simple and easy and cheap...
So I trolled thrift shops for a few years until I found a 4 gallon stainless stock pot, and an induction hotplate (total cost, $26.99). The rest is a scrap of 1.5" ABS, a drywall mud bucket, and a 10' piece of flex copper a buddy gave me for helping him with a concrete table top pour. A compression fitting to fix it to the lid of the pot and we're off!

Wrapped the copper around some 4"ABS for the coil, and used some tough sealant/adhesive to fix it through the bucket, and to a rod that would keep it level enough to maintain slope. The 1.5" ABS allows me to add water to the worm condenser so that it enters through an 1/8" gap at the very bottom. This pushes the water up so that only the hottest water at the top of the column goes out the overflow (out of this shot...doh!)

When set up next to a sink, the "product" flows into the mason jar in the sink, and hot worm water goes directly down the drain.

This bad boy lets me run the whole system at a steady 90°C, meaning there is no danger of boiling over. The tape with the black sharpie allows me to check the temperature as I'm starting with an infrared thermometer: useless with a low-emissivity material like stainless.
I generally do rum washes (though I have done brandy, calvados, and even a maple syrup wash!) of around 3 gallons, and get a few litres useable spirit.
I seal it all with a rye flour paste, and add cold.water to the worm as I need it. With no thumper, there is no pressure build up, and with no condenser pump to possibly fail, it is very, very safe.