Maple Syrup Evaporator Scrap build

It's spring in New England, which means it's maple syrup season, which means I needed to build a new evaporator out of whatever junk I had laying around. A scrap built evaporator? Let's call it the Scraporator!
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[@Barely_Creative]

People forget just how important it is color-matching your lubricants and machine tools. Excellent video!

[@Andrew2319]

I love that you're showing and involving your kiddos into your builds! You don't see many kids getting into manufacturing and fabrication work! We need more people getting into hands-on and DIY work. A lot of people don't realize where their most basic luxurys of life come from! It's all involved in manufacturing! Also, I love your videos! You have a unique style and do good work with the machines you have. It just shows that you can build anything without any super fancy tech and machines!

[@vr66luke]

I sure do like when Jeremy makes things.

[@nonsequitur807]

You're living the life, my friend. Never forget that. Many of us can only hope we get our lives together in time to get some of this good stuff.

[@CraigAndera]

Youth welders FTW. Taught my 15yo last summer - she loved it.

[@RichardFoley3]

Best Canadian content.... By far!

[@RichardFoley3]

Geography just told me that apparently New England isn't part of Canada, who knew! 😮

[@crichtonbruce4329]

@@RichardFoley3 I might have been except for those pesky rebels and that darn Mr. Washington.

[@keithviolette5870]

The comment about the 10 year old who's never welded before was great! Looks pretty good for a first try. My son started welding at about that age, and still loves it. We have recreated a few Colin Furze creations, and the drift trike is by far the most fun.

[@googleuser3110]

Thank you for the metric conversion.

[@tonyc.4528]

Vermont here, 35 miles south of the border. The season is running longer than normal, but the temps are turning the sap if you can't boil every day. Plain old pink fiberglass between the stack and the pan will take care of that burnt pan problem.

[@jdmccorful]

Getem, Joe Greenridge. Nice work, thanks for your time. Always enjoy!

[@i_might_be_lying]

That brings memories of tapping birch trees for, how we call it, "birch juice". Also, at 0:48 - forces of nature: fire, water, wind, earth and RUST.

[@Rustinox]

When my son was ten years old, I did let him try some welding too. But he was more interested in playing Minecraft :)

[@Vikingwerk]

Wish I had maple trees, looks fun!

[@belatoth3763]

I'm eager to see an AnchorLube from the back in one of any yt videos 😂 and there it is! 6:40😂

[@kendingsor]

I like the part where you milk the trees for that sweet sweet tree milk

[@samnoble]

This was a great project and I don't mean to diminish it in any way when I say that "if you want that in metric" was easily the high-light.

[@TheDistur]

Ran sap a few years. Pretty fun. But I make enough that I end up skipping a couple years between runs. 😂

[@RotarySMP]

Yum. So how much maple syrup does a Canadian family need in a year?

[@JeremyMakesThings]

I think that Canadians probably use more than us Americans, but we usually use 2 gallons or so. But we also use it for all of our sugar for baking (and any other cooking).

[@jaredhubbell7013]

Sweet!

[@TalRohan]

I don't use anchorlube I use neatsfoot oil but it really does make a huge difference to how long blades drills and cutters last.... |I am pretty sure we don't have anything we can make syrup from here. Sycamore is very common but as far as I know it tastes grotty, Birch would be the next best thing but there are not so many around so a bit stuffed ...oh well Looks like a cool bit of kit though.

[@KF-qj2rn]

would be cool to use food grade SS for the vessel

[@JacknVictor]

Wow, great video! Is it true that you get more syrup per gallon if you use the reverse osmosis process to get the syrup rather than boiling? We had a tree that we tapped for its sap, i forget the name of the tree but it was like a pine with a very thick eucalyptus type sap, and we used it for various things, but, if you got it on anything like your hands, or other areas of skin, or your clothes, it was worse than super glue, and had very potent vapours coming off of it. My wife made candles and toiletries, soaps and bath bombs etc with it, plus it came in handy for cold and flu symptoms. Would rather have had a maple tree but they don't really grow in my neck of the woods in England. But this tree we had would give you pints of the sap, and once we got what we needed we would plug the hole otherwise it would just carry on leaking everywhere. There were hundreds of plugs on it when we moved in already.

[@ironhead65]

Nice Jeremy! Are those just painters cloths over the lathe and mill?

[@JeremyMakesThings]

Yes. Better than nothing.

[@ollysworkshop]

Hi Jeremy. That's a nicely made stove. I made one once (just for heat, not for sap), but I don't have much thick material. I made it from 1.6mm (1/16”) steel, with fairly predictable results! Did you play with the emissivity setting on the thermal camera? It will probably be set to 1 by default, but that's only really accurate on matt black surfaces (or "black bodies"). Shiny metal has a lower emissivity, so you may be getting inaccurate numbers.

[@JeremyMakesThings]

Good tip, I haven’t messed with the emissivity, I’m mostly using it for ballpark temperatures and “this is hotter than that.”

[@schulzcbs]

I wonder if you can modify it to work double duty as a smoker 😇

[@joell439]

Are you sure your son’s not eleven 😂.