Column insulation where to buy
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Column insulation where to buy
Where can I get pipe insulation to cover a 2 inch copper column? Perfer the slip on kind like found at Home Depot or Lowes. The local stores don't carry anything this big
2" Copper Reflux Rig
15.5 Gallon Boiler
3" Copper VM Rig
15.5 Gallon Boiler
3" Copper VM Rig
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I use a pot still.Sometimes with a thumper
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I just bought a hot water heater jacket which has a foil faced layer of insulation with an R value of 10 (what it said on the tag, with just 1 inch of fiberglass insulation) at Home Depot for 20 bucks and it's about 10' x 4' with tape in it. I kind of tested it out on a fermenter with a thermometer on the side, wrapped the fermenter with a cut to fit piece and put a 250 watt halogen lamp about an inch from it for 4 hours and it never raised the temp in the fermenter (7.5 Gal.) one degree. I'm going to wrap my boiler and column with it and see what happens.
15 gallon pot still, 2"x18" column with liebeg condensor on propane.
Modified Charles 803 w/ 50gal boiler, never ran so far.
Modified Charles 803 w/ 50gal boiler, never ran so far.
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Re: Column insulation where to buy
I wrap the top two thirds of my keg boiler and my column, when I'm using it with a foil backed insulation called "Reflectix". You can but it by the foot at Ace Hardware or by the roll at most home improvement stores. I never thought of the water heater jacket idea...it's probably a better insulator than the Reflectix.
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I found it at a local pipe supply house( Flnmar, Holyoke, MA, USA)(yes, that's the correct spelling of the company name). 5 foot piece with self stick seam supposed to be for 2.25"od cast iron pipe for around $5.00 a length, fits 2" copper real nice.
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I found some 2"foam pipe insulation at a place called the Big Blue Store appearently it's a chain store in the southern US. GREAT store to shop in at least for a man, propane gas manifolds and the like. I was likea kid in a candy store
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I go for the really low tech approach. When I put everything together to start distilling I wrap the column with a couple fleece scarves. Probably not the best method in the world - but seems to work pretty well.