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Advice on pot still design
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Sun Sep 13, 2015 1:15 pmby royboy73
Have just been given a gas burner two bottles and a endless supply of free gas lucky me . So was thinking of using 18 gallon keg i have for stripping runs to try bring down my power bill .So using my electric bubbler less for bigger yield ? I could run the bubbler on gas i know but feel i can better isolate the flame on a pot.Feel free to give any advice or tell me its a dumb idea . Rough design is all 2 inch 900 riser to old shotgun condenser of another build to a parrot another left over vent by hole drilled in elbow .have some 3 inch i could use for riser if needed ? Just using what i have left over cheers roy
Re: Advice on pot still design
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Sun Sep 13, 2015 1:58 pmby benpandaae86
Some of the gas setups ive seen use a long leibig condensor to get the output away from the flame
Happy stillin
Re: Advice on pot still design
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Sun Sep 13, 2015 5:10 pmby scythe
Why not just take all the plates and packed sections (if you have them) out of the bubbler and run it as a 4" pot?
Re: Advice on pot still design
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Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:17 pmby WTDist
scythe wrote:Why not just take all the plates and packed sections (if you have them) out of the bubbler and run it as a 4" pot?
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Re: Advice on pot still design
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Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:59 amby scythe
I mean apart from the electricity issue.
Are the elements removable from your boiler?
If so just take them out and cap their ports off and bam its gas ready.
Re: Advice on pot still design
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Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:29 amby OzKev
I've played with both LPG and elec (in the beer brewery side, but same logic here). Something I found, I calculated that LPG in 9kg bottles is approx 3 times the cost of elec to run.