Zak Griffin wrote:Nice plans mate!
I'd go for more smaller pipes in the RC... And have you thought about single 2" bubblecaps?
Dig Brinker wrote:If you're cooling from a tank or don't want to waste water use as many tubes as you can. I have 19 X 1/2 inch tubes in my 4" RC and I use a trickle, under 5 litres an hour to let spirit through. Under 10/hour for full reflux.
I bought my plates and caps from 5Star, saves the fiddle and you know you will be getting a tried, tested & proven product :handgestures-thumbupleft: From what I've read there's not much difference between a single large cap, multiple small caps or even perforated plates as long as you don't under/over power your boil rate.
Happy building :handgestures-thumbupleft:
rumdidlydum wrote:Looks like a solid set of plans, are you limited for height in your distilling area? Thats one thing to keep an eye on.
I look forward to seeing the progress, just remember plenty of pictures :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Chief wrote:Have you thought about using perferated plates instead of bubble caps. I run a 4" 4 plate column with perf plates works a treat. As i understand you can push perf plates harder then caps.
I run 2 elements for heat up and then a 3.6 kw via a controller for the rest of the run usually at around 2.5 to 3L per hour. I can however run the 3.6kw flat stick holding full reflux with all plates loaded and pull 1L every 16 to 17 min. Dont know how this compares to caps.
scythe wrote:Pretty sure those tanks are cleaning kegs for beer lines.
Fill it up with whatever the pub uses for cleaning beer lines, connect the gas lines and push it through the system and out the beer taps.
I think they are about 19L form memory.
Factory standard ferrules are 2.5mm thick before they start tapering down to pipe diameter.
4mm would be too thick amd expensive.
Get 2.5 or 2mm ones cut, because you still need to fit a seal in there.
Factory standard seals are about 1.5mm.
Doubleuj wrote:10mm will be on the limit of a 4 inch Tri clamp. I just measured the effective size for the clamps at 7-10mm thickness. You could easily taper your plates down a fraction to aid the clamping action :-B
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