so that i don't waste potable water, i use water from the 1000l rain water tank we have. we have no fancy pump attached to it, so the flow rate is about 4l/m, which gets choked down to 1l/min by the condenser. when i was doing a stripping run one time, i noticed that the arm of my pot still head which has an internal coil condenser, was hot, and only the last 5cm was cool enough to even hold. in desperation to try keeping things cool for the spirit run, this is what i came up with.....
a 20l bucket from bunnings, 10m of a 15m hose coiled inside the bucket , throw in some water and a $3 bag of ice. this worked really well for most of the run, but towards the end all the ice had melted and the water slowly started to loose its cooling ability, but not enough to loose me vapour.
on my last spirit run i found that it was better to cover the hose coil with water, then throw in some chunks to get the water chilled, keep the rest of the ice in an esky, and toss some more ice in when the ice in the bucket had melted. doing this kept the water chilled for the whole run, and i even had ice left over . :dance: