flute or t500 for neutral?

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Shovelhead89
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flute or t500 for neutral?

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I picked up a 6 plate ss modular bubble cap flute yesterday to start making whiskey. I've been using a turbo 500 for some time now to make neutral. Would I be better off using my flute to make neutral or strip with the flute and fill the turbo with low wines? Or any other options given the equipment I have.
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Re: flute or t500 for neutral?

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Are your plates lose? Or soldered in? If they are lose then keep them out and put your packing in after a few strip runs. I'm building my flute and I'll be running 3 to 5 plates with about a 20 to 24 inch backed section above it.

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Re: flute or t500 for neutral?

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yakattack wrote:Are your plates lose? Or soldered in? If they are lose then keep them out and put your packing in after a few strip runs. I'm building my flute and I'll be running 3 to 5 plates with about a 20 to 24 inch backed section above it.

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Not a bad idea, so remove all the plates and fill the column up with rolled up copper mesh?
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Re: flute or t500 for neutral?

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Nah. I'd used lava rock (scoria) or marbles before copper mesh. (If your column is ss make sure you do add some copper mesh but not the whole column. ) but the cats meow would be spp sized for your column diameter. But copper mesh would still work.

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Re: flute or t500 for neutral?

Post by emptyglass »

Your plated column will make a nice neutral, you might just have to run it through twice. Even twice through would still be quicker than a t500.

Adding a packable section would be a nice addition, but you'll need all 6 plates under it for good clean single run vodka.

You wont want 6 plates for flavoured stuff.
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Re: flute or t500 for neutral?

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Thanks for setting that straight empty. I'll have to make sure I make a 6th plate for mine as well.

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Re: flute or t500 for neutral?

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Its been some time now since original post but it seems to be close to what I am after :)
How did you end up going about it ?
I have 3"4plate flute and got a 21" piece i can fill with lava rock or ss scrubies
Or i can add 4 more plates, i got a piece of copper sheet left that i can make another removable tree and put it inside 21" piece
Or the other option i am considering is making a 6" pipe with boka plates in it, im wondering if it worth it :)
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