by Professor Green » Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:08 pm
Welcome macgreer.
If you're wanting to make a distilled gin, you'll need a pot still as well as a reflux column - the T500 columns can't be run "detuned" as pot still without sustaining damage due to the use of plastic components tat warp when overheated.
If you want a single still to be able to make your neutral AND a distilled gin, then something like a boka would be your best bet. I'm assuming you're wanting to stay small at this stage rather than jumping in with both feet?
Keep an eye out in the for sale section here, stuff pops up there quite regularly.
Also, if you are set on a T500, have a think about making a pot still to complement it - they're dead simple to make and there's plenty of threads in the post still section of the forum to whet your appetite.
Cheers,
Prof. Green.