Cleaning the Magic Flute

[olddog]

Just cleaning the new 4" column, yesterday I ran some dunder mixed with vinegar with some feints from a previous run, all product was thrown away afterwards, yesterday I did not have the dephlagmater conected to see what difference it would make. Today I made the cooling lines for the dephlagmater, and charged the boiler with a water and vinegar mix. One supprising observation was that with the water supply to the dephlagmater tuned off, I was getting a steady stream of distilled water and vinegar, as soon as I turned on the water supply to the dephlagmater the stream decreased to near nothing, This of coarse is how a dephlagmater should work, allowing the alcohol to exit the still to the condenser, and returning the water back down the column to the boiler. I did not have an alcohol wash to test this but the results so far are pleasing.

OD