Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

hi all,

Had a boil over in my pot still a few weeks ago so gave it a good clean with citric bath for a couple of hours, sat the head up side down in the bowler whcih is what i normally do. Flushed it with water. Ran it as a still with water only. Everything fine. Rang a nutragrain wash through it and the out put had a slight rust colour to it. Bit of a surprise since its all coopper. Would a vinegar run clean it better or use it as an excuse to build another? Don't really want to spend the coin yet but don't want to waste any more coin on washes that end up as vodka.
Cheers,
fed

Yeah try a vinegar clean mate, how hard were you running that wash and how full was the boiler? You might have had a bit of a puke :handgestures-thumbupleft:

sam_and_liv wrote:You might have had a bit of a puke

I was thinking same thing :handgestures-thumbupleft:

sam_and_liv wrote:Yeah try a vinegar clean mate, how hard were you running that wash and how full was the boiler? You might have had a bit of a puke :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Will give a vinegar wash a go. No puke, only 10 litres in a 25 boiler, sides of the boiler were clean.

As always thans for all your help,

Some of the HBS boilers use copper/rusty coloured elements in them :think:

Big fan of a short 20 min steam only run after vinegar runs. prevents any offies in next spirit run.

bt1

Woodsy71 wrote:Some of the HBS boilers use copper/rusty coloured elements in them :think:

bt1 wrote:Big fan of a short 20 min steam only run after vinegar runs. prevents any offies in next spirit run.

bt1

Woodsy, element external to the boiler, so no problem there

BT1, thanks seemed to work a treat last night.

Thanks to the collective for all your assistance as usual

Hey I welded the bsb join on my boiler when I didn't know how to weld lol stupid apprentice and didn't back purge it and the back of it is rusting should I cut it out and weld a new section in or does it not matter as I don't drink wats in the boiler or do particles some how float up into the vapour thanks

CyBaThUg wrote:Hey I welded the bsb join on my boiler when I didn't know how to weld lol stupid apprentice and didn't back purge it and the back of it is rusting should I cut it out and weld a new section in or does it not matter as I don't drink wats in the boiler or do particles some how float up into the vapour thanks

Clean it with a burr or staino wire brush then pickling paste will fix it if you can't get pickling paste acetone will work ok.