Thumper on a plated column

[Knackerbag]

Guys can you help me understand the thumper concept on plated stills. I've read a heap of build threads with them in but I'm still struggling to understand how they work. Is the basics of it just adding larger plates at the base before reducing to the actual intended column size? I've seen a few with 6" inline thumpers then reducing to a 4" column. So if I'm understanding correctly you would get better speed and quality out of a 6" column then a 4" column with a 6" thumper??

[rumdidlydum]

Think of the thumper holding a striped wash, the high wines are in the thumper and you are then seperating the fractions of that.
Thus being able to increase your take off rate due to already seperating the alc from the wash.

It also opens up the amount of run startagies you can try.

Make sense :teasing-tease:

[Zak Griffin]

A 6" column will be quicker, but you also need a bigger boiler and more power thrown at it.

[Knackerbag]

Makes sense, so if you put a striped wash in the thumper what goes in the boiler ?

[bluc]

You dont put stripped wash in inline thumper, the thumper strips the wash as you go and feeds it up the tower. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Zak Griffin]

But you could also put low wines or feints in the thumper as well as wash in the boiler.

[Knackerbag]

Now I'm confused.

[Zak Griffin]

Good, it means you're thinking! haha

Build a 4" bubbler first, get it running and you will see how a thumper will help.

Think of it as a second boiler, heated by steam, that you can fill with all of the alcohol in the wash.

Instead of your alcohol returning into the boiler as you run and getting diluted back into the wash, it is caught in the thumper.

[rumdidlydum]

Good, it means you're thinking! haha

:laughing-rolling:

Baby steps mate it will com to you :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Knackerbag]

Lol baby steps I always bite of more than I can chew and chew like fuck sometimes it works out sometimes not so much :laughing-rolling: