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Aint even going there..........been wrong before.
SAAAAAAAMMMMMMM your wanted!

[Sam.]

Well from your thank you, you should probably pack the column with palm leaves and tourists :laughing-rolling:

But in all seriousness you need to grind the tourists to the correct gauge ;-)

But really, its all about the surface area, anyone that has read a few of the actually helpful books out there (as apposed to a heap of bullshit) will tell you marbles are pretty crap for packing :handgestures-thumbdown: Having said that with the height of the column we had and running it SLOW we could achieve 95%.

You can upgrade to all sorts of crazy and wonderful things that will give you more surface area, the one I would avoid is the rashig (or rashid? or some shit?) rings that a home brew shop will sell you, yes they have good surface area but you might as well bend over at the counter for the price.

My best suggestion is structured copper mesh from the Amphora Society. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

So much typing, need a drink :))

[CBrewH60]

Heh. Yeah. If you can't tell, I am from Hawaii (in the US). I work in the same office as C2H60 at Uni, although we work on drastically different things. Appreciate the response and I am looking into available materials to exchange with the marbles. Will keep you all posted on the details.

[FireKitty]

Hey C2H60, got your reference to this post, have a few questions now...

did you keep the marbles or switch to SS scrubbers?
Were you able to achieve full reflux?
What mods did you make, and did they help?
Did you figure out a rough guide by temp for cutting heads/hearts/tails?


All in all, did you have much luck with your still after reading the above comments? Seeing as I have the same one, am looking to get it right :)

[C2H6O]

Hi FireKitty,
Unfortunately i cant throw much more light your way about the still because i decided to take a saw to mine and have a bit of a tinker. Here is another link with the mods i have been making viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3914&p=64779#p64779. Since starting this however i haven't found any spare time and as such im still left with half the project (Thinking about it now has got me keen, so maybe next weekend)

Cutting mine up was prob a bit of a rushed judgement though as i was given a lot of positive advice, but i wanted to get my hands dirty.

As my thread said i achieved aprox 87% with mine but think you could do better if you ran it slow.. My advice would be give it a go and make a call depending on how happy you are with the product.

Cheers