Hi all.

[Krylothe]

Been checking out the forum for awhile but been a bit slack in posting. Had a turbo 500, leaked like a sieve so replaced it with the 2" Bokka from 5 Star Distilling and currently putting my first wash through. Looking forward to learning what i can from the pros out there and making some quality spirits .

[bluc]

Welcome sounds like you have the right foot forward :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Professor Green]

Welcome Krylothe.

The 5 Star 2" Boka is an excellent upgrade from the T500. If Andrew hasn't already told you this, make sure you push a small amount of the copper mesh up into the coil area of the condenser to help it knock down the vapour. I found dialing down the T500 boiler power once it came up to temperature to keep it on a nice slow rolling boil really helpful too. I had my boiler modified to add a switch that allows me to turn off one of the heating elements giving me 2000W for heat up and 1200W for the rest of the run but that was before 5 Star stated offering the off-the-shelf power controllers.

My boka was an older version so things may be a little different now but I found that the product came off quite hot. I replaced the output pipe with a small liebig condenser to combat that. Might be worth considering in the future if you find the same thing happening.

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

[woodduck]

Hi Mate welcome to the forum.

The boka should give you a great start and will make some good neutral :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Enjoy

[andybear]

Hi Krylothe, welcome to the site. I'm thinking you Queenslanders are a thirsty bunch as most members seem to be from there. Cheers Andy. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Krylothe]

Welcome Krylothe.

The 5 Star 2" Boka is an excellent upgrade from the T500. If Andrew hasn't already told you this, make sure you push a small amount of the copper mesh up into the coil area of the condenser to help it knock down the vapour. I found dialing down the T500 boiler power once it came up to temperature to keep it on a nice slow rolling boil really helpful too. I had my boiler modified to add a switch that allows me to turn off one of the heating elements giving me 2000W for heat up and 1200W for the rest of the run but that was before 5 Star stated offering the off-the-shelf power controllers.

My boka was an older version so things may be a little different now but I found that the product came off quite hot. I replaced the output pipe with a small liebig condenser to combat that. Might be worth considering in the future if you find the same thing happening.

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

Thanks for the advice, have done 4 runs already and quality already seems far beyond the T500. Yeah i already spoke to Andrew, got the power controller and enough copper to fill the Bokka all at the same time. Glad you mentioned the product being hot though, i had thought the product was far to hot aswell so will definitely be looking into a liebig condensor. If you have any other tips or advice I am more then willing to listen and learn.

[db1979]

Welcome mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: