Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Thoughts? Or do you need to let your jars air a bit?
Did you fool with it a bit to see what's what or just a straight forward run?

Good one Mac
Very interesting :clap: :clap:
It's a real shame about the leaky parrot, I woulda put a zip tie around that plumbers tape to be sure its fixed properly though :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Looks like it was runnin smooth as.

good one :thumbup:

Here's the 2nd vid that got cut short

http://youtu.be/91Vus_lQ2zM

I'll post my thoughts a little later of how my run went, I will say that it is a worth while addition and I'm a very happy camper ;)

stubbydrainer wrote:Good one Mac
Very interesting :clap: :clap:
It's a real shame about the leaky parrot, I woulda put a zip tie around that plumbers tape to be sure its fixed properly though :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

If you look closely at my cooling lines you will see not just 1 but 2 zip ties, the parrot is one that leaked from birth and was sent back after Stig smashed the bottom off it trying to pull it apart :roll: Stick to computers Stiggly :teasing-neener:

LWTCS wrote:Thoughts? Or do you need to let your jars air a bit?
Did you fool with it a bit to see what's what or just a straight forward run?

I'll let em air a bit for now but not a lot seems to have changed except for take off speed, I did everything as I usually would but my run time was a hell of a lot quicker.... I was getting 440ml every 6.5 minutes, from start to finish it took 2 hours total & usually took 3hrs.

Even mrs mac was impressed at the take off speed, she said it was almost as good as when I charge with low wines doing here UJ runs :dance:

All in all I reckon with a little tweaking of the defuckerarater and heat input I could get this thing really pissing hard with a low wines run, and a whole lot quicker with a wash charge & I put it down to exactly as you described by not letting the reflux back to the boiler.

The bottom plate dried up so fast when I expected it to, then the next was almost instant.... I knew from previous runs of the same wash how much hooch to expect, and it was right on que too, but just less lag time between transitions.

ABV% is 93% after correction with lovely smell and flavor from the hearts and early tails, I know I could get this thing to 95% by running it under 2L an hour but we dont really care too much bout that do we.... I want flavor :dance:

Going to run it tomorrow again, this time with 8L of heads/tails & some wash, might even just use water in the humpa to see what that does.

:clap: :clap:

Are you able to repost your pics?
Ever since the cyber attack I can not view them.

Yes mate I'll get onto it first thing in the morning for you :)

Was just down the shed pulling the rig apart in prep for tomorrows run & it occured to me that I've got an easy fix for adding an extra distillation cycle...

Just gotta add another plate to the column join between the humpa and the first plate, easy done with a perf plate and j down comer.... hmmmmmm :think:

Yep. That's what I'm doing with my cap assembly for the packed column build. Only I'm using a small valve plate.

Shoot,,,,,, I'd reckon you could land a "barrel strength" run in about 15 minutes! :D

Maybe a fun experiment??? Just to see how long it really would take to run a 20-25 liter batch off and land at 65-70%

jamjar wrote:Are you able to repost your pics?
Ever since the cyber attack I can not view them.

Done! ;)

LWTCS wrote:Yep. That's what I'm doing with my cap assembly for the packed column build. Only I'm using a small valve plate.

I hope you're going to share this build with us ? :)

I hope Larry shares the build too! :pray:

McStill, what size pipe did you use around the 4" ? looks about 8" is it?

cheers
Rod

rod_m27 wrote:I hope Larry shares the build too! :pray:

McStill, what size pipe did you use around the 4" ? looks about 8" is it?

cheers
Rod

Yes mate it's 8" copper pipe, good luck finding some though at a reasonable price.

You'd be better off doing as LW done with a big SS pot ;)

I decided that this thing requires a little extra in getting distillate back to the thumper, so today I put an external down comer on it.

The pipes are just straight through, wont be a problem because the lower part enters the thumper below the liquid level so should act as a vapor lock.

So its inline with the height of down comer on the 8" plate?

And how did you determine the need? (curious is all?)

Have ya run it yet?

cheers
Rod

rod_m27 wrote:And how did you determine the need? (curious is all?)

The chamber can be flooded.....So it is a preventative measure to insure both phase changes occur within the chamber/plate level.
But also if you can quickly drain back down,, you can cycle the alcohol more rapidly and more quickly exploit the "positive feedback" phenomena.

It will add more speed with less power and more purity......This statement seems counter intuitive in some circles as a typical still would produce less purity with more speed........

But the key here is that you are essentially doing nearly all of the distilling prior to collecting one single drop.

Did your lenses turn up?

5Star wrote:Did your lenses turn up?

Yes mate on friday, was hoping to fit them but ran out of time :angry-banghead:

Goodo.