Yep, i never knew anything about his earlier exploits, the Aussie crime kings programme focused only on that part of the story.
They did show how he was using a emptied out waterbed bladder & heat pads to dry the powders, i think thats how he got caught, it may have started a fire. Or it might have been that they knew something was going on and used that as a excuse.
Those stainless sep funnels, he got them made up for him. One of the engineers was going to testify so he tried to get a hitman & thats when it fell apart.
I cant wait to read the book, info straight from the source.
And the welding in the OP video... It looks like silvery bird shit, its been done with a rod, not TIG. Pretty scarey really if there's pressures involved. Most of it looks like its been bought from a scrapmetal yard ( which is a good idea for that scale of things ) & one wouldnt even need a excuse or reason to buy it.
Standard price seems to be "twice the scrap value".
Im setting up a homebrew 'still at the moment. Same setup really. ( Its legal to home brew here ).