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repacking

Postby padre » Thu May 15, 2014 9:29 pm

how do I repack my home spirit collum
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Re: repacking

Postby Zak Griffin » Thu May 15, 2014 9:58 pm

With your hands.
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Re: repacking

Postby Andy » Thu May 15, 2014 10:06 pm

Zak Griffin wrote:With your hands.


the same as how you unpacked... it but in reverse

Hi mate. you will probably have some more success with your question if you head over to the welcome area and introduce yourself. This forum is a community, with hundreds of members willing to help out other community members. but if your just hear for a Q&A you might not have that much success.
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Re: repacking

Postby APR » Fri May 16, 2014 1:22 am

Andy wrote:Hi mate. you will probably have some more success with your question if you....


He might be like Mac... shy and bashfull.

padre wrote:how do I repack my home spirit collum


G'Day padre. Packing is material added to the lower part of your still column. Packing is designed to increase the surface area for vapour to condense on. This packing is designed to give your spirits more purity, or give a higher percentage of alcohol by volume, from your still.

I see you have a T500 still. My understanding is that this still uses ceramic saddles and copper saddles in the column.

http://www.brewcraftsa.com.au/showProdu ... dles%0D%0A
http://www.brewcraftsa.com.au/showProdu ... ddles+100g

The instructions for the T500 still will give you info on fitting the saddles into the column...

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0218/9 ... 12.pdf?938

See how you go. If you have difficulty I am sure there are blokes here who can steer you in the right direction.
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Re: repacking

Postby SBB » Fri May 16, 2014 10:53 am

I dont think its a T500 he wants to know about. I think its one of these.
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Not sure what they use as packing.
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Re: repacking

Postby C2H6O » Fri May 16, 2014 11:19 am

If its the column that SBB suggests then Iberw says "Stainless steel mesh packing (pre installed and tested)".
That's the extent of my help sorry, I've never seen on of these columns.

Good luck
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Re: repacking

Postby APR » Fri May 16, 2014 11:33 am

SBB wrote:I dont think its a T500 he wants to know about. I think its one of these.
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Not sure what they use as packing.


You may be right SBB. The bit about him having a "home spirit maker" didn't connect with me as being a brand of still.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRF8QBM4eME#t=93
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Re: repacking

Postby MacStill » Sat May 17, 2014 12:58 pm

There's only one "home spirit maker" I know of, anyway, pretty sure it says in their user manual not to attempt to repack these columns or you will ruin it (or something to that effect)

These stills are made by Pure Distilling and there maybe a copycat cheaper version out there, they are pretty much considered one of the better of the home brew shop rigs.
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Re: repacking

Postby Yummyrum » Sat May 17, 2014 5:01 pm

padre...hope this helps ,Its for a similar still,I got a few packs of these to repack my VM column after the bloke at the HBS convinced me that some Supermarket scrubbers might have lead in them to aid in machining.....anyway , I still haven't got around to repacking mine :laughing-rolling:

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Re: repacking

Postby MacStill » Sat May 17, 2014 9:01 pm

Some info from people who've used these things.

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3030#p44902

I do remember other conversations about trying to repack these rigs, pretty sure crow has one and had huge dramas with it ;-)
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Re: repacking

Postby SBB » Sat May 17, 2014 9:20 pm

Yeah Im pretty sure it was crow who said " DONT TOUCH THE PACKING"
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Re: repacking

Postby padre » Sat May 17, 2014 11:43 pm

:text-thankyoublue: Thanks guys for all your thoughts. It is the one made by pure distilling. I like to know how things work, but will wait until I know more, before I go playing with it. cheers to all
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Re: repacking

Postby Yummyrum » Sun May 18, 2014 1:06 am

Seriously...how hard can it be FFS. ......less than a meter of packing.
Surely.when you pull the old stuff out you would get pretty good idea of the density of what was in there..
If a super packed short column is so special then hell we need to sus the shit out of this cause we must have all missed something really important.....somehow I'm thinking marketing bollocks.

Unless there is physical means IE a small opening that the packing has to be forced through
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Re: repacking

Postby jasonc2861 » Sun May 18, 2014 2:47 pm

I use this still and have made the mistake of unpacking it,don't know why but after re packing it three times,it finally would hold a stable temp again,bloody frustrating to repack,but eventually worked,so not impossible,,just a pain in the ass! :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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