This cascade has had a troubled history. It sat in my garage for 6 months after initially being built, spent another ~5 months at YellowBeard's(Corsair Forum Rep) house in storage as I moved house, and then it spent the last 3 months sitting on my desk taunting me. It was never quite finished, it was about 90% complete before I just started using it.

Now I've decided to start my foray into autocascades and hit a funding wall. Eyeballing my cascade, I decided to make it a little less ghetto, drop in a stronger 2nd stage compressor, drop in another condenser and build a shroud, use a solenoid for the oil separator, and hopefully make it attractive enough to lure in an owner.

To kick things off I stripped it naked, cut up the entire 2nd stage into separate components, and re-plumbed part of the 1st stage. Here's what I've accomplished so far along with a part-list.

Stage 1:
Compressor: Panasonic 2P16C3R126A 15.6cc/rev 10,750 BTU/hr rotary compressor
Condensers: DetroitAC Condensers x 2
Metering device: 2x 8' of 0.031" capillary tubing
HX: Steel brazed 10-plate
Fans: 2x 120mmx120mmx38mm Sunon 25w fans

Stage 2:
Compressor: Panasonic 2P14S3R126B 13.2cc/rev 9,165 BTU/hr rotary compressor
Condenser: Chilly1 Litte Blue
Metering Device: 8.5' of 0.031" capillary tubing
Oil Separator: Temprite 340A unfloated oil separator
Solenoid: Sporlan Normally Closed solenoid with 110vac coil
Suction line: 4' of 3/8" flexible steel hose with braided sleeving.
Evaporator: Chilly1 spiral with scoured internals

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Getting the cascade all nekkid for surgery

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Cascade in the buff, ready to get chopped up

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1st stage testfire with R290. Just testing for functionality.

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It is currently mad ghetto but it works.

Tomorrow I'm tuning a single-stage that was delayed due to me getting sick. If I have time I'll assemble the 2nd stage, brazing in the compressor, desuperheater, oil separator, solenoid arrangement, and attach the suction-line. That will then just leave me with attaching the 2nd stage to the 1st stage.

You may note, the condenser was the one I was using for my autocascade. Well, I tracked down a larger condenser for the autocascade and suddenly had a nice condenser sitting around