Did you watch Dr Tim's video? It is spot on. One point I'd like to make is the "tapping hammer". That if not an official tapping hammer should be rather light, not a carpenter's hammer. I have used the flat jaw on a pair of 7" lineman's pliers for years, with great success. I use them to set the taps, but on some of my mainlines I have some 14 ga. wire side ties, the pliers do well with that too. My oldest mains all had wire side ties but I gradualle started using the plastic flat strap formed like a flat strap with link cut outs, often used for nursery tree support. As I had fewer and fewer wire side ties I still used the lineman's pliers because they did not hit the tap too hard.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.