xcvator wrote:Bundaboy, get that MacBoka out of the packaging and set it up ffs, do your cleaning/vinegar/sacrificial runs. Then take the packing out, fill the boiler with wash,open the needle valve and fire up the heat. This will give you a "stripping run", (read how to strip with a pot still), try this and then you can throw the airstill away.
While the boka may not be the fastest distilling system around, it's pretty versatile :handgestures-thumbupleft: If I just use it as is I find it very slow, but I do stripping runs with a pot still head 1st then run it through the reflux @ 78.8c collects @90% @ about 2.5 litres an hour :-D
cheers Keith :greetings-waveyellow:
Thanks Keith, I had the MacBoka unpacked within an hour of receiving it. Alas, as I am sure you know, it is not a plug-and-play system. This is not the thread to go into details, but there is a lot more to getting it up and going than I expected.
Suffice it to say my local (100 kms away there and back) Bunnings is a HUGE but country store that has EVERYTHING that you don't want and NOTHING that you do, on top of that it is staffed by congenital idiots who complain it's their time to go home so why are you hassling me?, every time I find I need something I don't have in stock it's a weeks delay and another $15-$20 in petrol etc. Just connecting up the water has been a nightmare, they just don't stock the (standard available everywhere) fittings. Oh God, and if I told you the number of times I have driven that 100ks only to find the bin of the item I wanted empty - you would cry like I have. It really is like pulling teeth. It's an STD call to contact them by phone. They didn't have the $2.40 a metre cable I needed in stock so it cost me $5 a metre to buy it from Home Hardware who didn't have the price on the cable and only made it known after they had processed my credit card (yes I am a trusting soul), and that just screw you into the ground on price because they know you have no choice. I could go on but it's boring, so I won't go into how I found out how 90% of my home (and garage) has been wired onto ONE of THREE 20 amp circuits and how all the power points local to where I can set up the boka is on that circuit, or how the refrigerator is also on that circuit, or how an electrician who has 1/10th of my electrical qualifications, .1% of my experience, but HAS recent knowledge of the SAA wiring rules compared to my extensive knowledge of 1974 SAA wiring rules AND has paid the ridiculously high licensing fee, wants to charge me about 3 times the hourly rate that I received as a Senior Executive of a major broadcasting organisation to rejig the wiring... but I rant and am tired and emotional... and one must keep one's sense of humour... mustn't one? Where's my Air Still? I need a drink.