Tiprat67 wrote:Doubleuj wrote:I’m confused, sounds like you had a perfect run.
12 cut jars @ 200ml each is 2.4L, which is bang on all the alcohol available in the wash.
Jar 12 should smell putrid, it’s pure tails.
15L out of the boiler is just your Dunder, tip it down the drain.
Remember the wash you put in is only 9% alcohol or there about, the rest is mainly water which won’t boil off.
Temps sound perfect
Take off rate sounds perfect
I think you nailed it.
Doubleuj thanks heaps bro for helping me out !
So your saying that having 15 litres left in the boiler is cool ?
I thought the bugger had to be empty ??
Please feel free to take the piss out of me cause i can take it lol
Doubleuj wrote:Tiprat67 wrote:Doubleuj wrote:I’m confused, sounds like you had a perfect run.
12 cut jars @ 200ml each is 2.4L, which is bang on all the alcohol available in the wash.
Jar 12 should smell putrid, it’s pure tails.
15L out of the boiler is just your Dunder, tip it down the drain.
Remember the wash you put in is only 9% alcohol or there about, the rest is mainly water which won’t boil off.
Temps sound perfect
Take off rate sounds perfect
I think you nailed it.
Doubleuj thanks heaps bro for helping me out !
So your saying that having 15 litres left in the boiler is cool ?
I thought the bugger had to be empty ??
Please feel free to take the piss out of me cause i can take it lol
No worries mate, that’s what we’re here for, no one will take the piss when you’re learning, once you know what you’re doing and fuck up then that’s a different story :laughing-rolling:
As for the amount left, in layman’s terms, remember we’re only separating the alcohol from the water, so there will always be something left in the boiler.
RC Al wrote::text-lol: its funny the things we miss when starting something new
Are you using a voltage controller? sounds like you needed more juice for the last of the tails (which you can probably just skip for the next run)
As you have already done a cut spirt run (as opposed to a faster & smeared strip) you have a couple of options
a. just drink the hearts
b. do the rest of the wash as a faster stripping run and then run both through for another spirts run - optionally you could not re-run the worst of the heads n tails
c. do a 1.5 run where you put what you just made in with most of the rest of your wash and do cuts again, also optionally not using the worst of the heads n tails
There is a thing called stacking where you add heads n tails back in to increase the amount of nasty stuff that will come off in each "separation" this can give you easier to define cuts and let you recover a bit more hearts out of your washes. Its done more with flavoured washes for extra esters n stuff to make a flavour profile, but can work in neutrals too if not done too heavily, but it will take more time to run
Tiprat67 wrote:
Hey RC Al,
Thanks heaps for the reply mate....some very interesting reading in what you said and i will do abit more research into into that !
Looks like the problem is sorted....was no problem i just had no idea that i was finished and yes the boiler can still be over half full.
Learning on the run and loving it !
no temp controller mate...
nudder12 wrote:Tiprat67 wrote:
Hey RC Al,
Thanks heaps for the reply mate....some very interesting reading in what you said and i will do abit more research into into that !
Looks like the problem is sorted....was no problem i just had no idea that i was finished and yes the boiler can still be over half full.
Learning on the run and loving it !
no temp controller mate...
Everything seems to have gone well.
I know you said the last jar was really smelly. Just wondering how the rest were? Any smells?
freebeertomorrow wrote:Hi,
I have packed my column as per the advice in this thread using 5 of the same size scrubbers.
My copper saddles jiggle around a little at the top, just wanted to know whether this is an issue? Do the copper saddles all need to be pushed and held tightly at the very top by the scrubbers?
Thanks
Doubleuj wrote:1. No
2. No
Doubleuj wrote:I think I used to push it to 60 ish degrees if I ever tried to do a strip run.
northerner wrote:OK so just done first sacrificial run on my new T500.
Seemed to go well. just under 3l of 'product' at around 93%. I reduced water flow towards the end so outlet temp was around mid-high 60's. Does that sound about right?
Slow but no problems.
The Stig wrote:DO NOT remove packing and try to do a stripping run .
You will kill the T500, the plastic top cap will melt and leak like a bastard.
The Stig wrote:Others will just do a “fast” run then re-run a second time
The Dark Alchemist wrote:The Stig wrote:Others will just do a “fast” run then re-run a second time
That's what I do.
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