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Plate Still instead of packingSome of the best most recent information about plated still technology, is being done by olddog, on the Home Distiller forums. You can read a lot of discussion in this thread: Flute TalkThis still design, is based upon properly scaling down a LARGE commercial plated still, to be used for hobby distillation sizes. Gaw has made a hobby-sized column with plates in it, rather than using packing. He elaborates .. I built a bubble plate still using
the encyclopedia and the pics from message #1560 posted by Peter of
the Netherlands. Not being happy with the scrubbers or marbles and
not being able to afford the threaded unions he had used, some $200
US each, I created a bolt together system using stainless plates
from a salvage yard and 4 inch copper pipe. My still will now
produce 3 1/2 US gallons per hour of 95% after a thirty minute warm
up time, using two three KW elements in the main thirty gallon
boiler and one 1500 watt element in the smaller six gallon water
heater at the base of the still which I have converted to operate
on separate temp controllers.
  
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