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What is happening is that the dissolved minerals in the water you are adding are falling out of solution, causing cloudiness. Tap water has a lot of dissolved minerals (Ca, Mg, Na, Fe, etc.), when you mix this with distilled alcohol, they are less soluble in the alcohol and precipitate out of soluti...

The part about "reduce away until you hit the product condensor" will affect your reflux ratio. This post has some very good data on the diameters of your tubing post takeoff and the resulting reflux ratio. http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11396 Basically it says that...

Very nice indeed-

Do I have my theory correct on VM vs CM design??

mash rookie wrote:

MacGyver wrote:I like this design, but this is a CM design right?

Yes it is. But a damn good one !!

I like this design, but this is a CM design right? If you move the product take off port with vapor valve below the deflemator (which would then be called a reflux condensor), it would become a VM still - correct? I think I 'm starting to understand things a bit more now. Then instead of varying the...

How is the build progressing Banjo? I'm looking to build my very first still - in a very similar style to yours and olddogs I'd like to make the system fairly modular, I'll draw up some plans soon. I've still got quite a long ways to go on the bubble plate design. I like the 'no moving parts' design...