Dephlegmator Comparision

[Chauncey]

That's crazy

[shadylane]

That's crazy

What's crazy, the next defleg
Or the link to moonshine from the Foxfire books
Get this
The books were written 40ish years ago by Students that went through the Hills, asking Old Folks about how life once was.
The students figured the Old Folks had valuable knowledge that needed recorded

[Chauncey]

ThTs pretty cool

And I mean the circle tubes with the holes, looks like something crazy in the works, in a good way

[shadylane]

I figure to use some 12oz copper sheet for the defleg's inner and outer walls
On a side note.
Look at my avitar, to me everything is crazy
Normal appearing people make me nervous
I suspect they're better at deception than the rest of us.

[Yummyrum]

go shady .

[shadylane]

Hells Fire, the price of silver brazing rods has got ridiculous.
Here's a couple more picks
We're fixin to find out how well it works

[acfixer69]

Love the persistent drive for a new, but I will bet it's a water hog.

[acfixer69]

Just a big cold finger no?

[shadylane]

It's not a cold finger condenser.
It's a cold hole condenser
I haven't got to the cold finger mod yet

[shadylane]

Love the persistent drive for a new, but I will bet it's a water hog.

I ran the cooling water through it both ways
Either way it was a water hog
4 L/M to knock down 6kw

[Chauncey]

The avatar


Fair nuff doc


Crazy bastaddd

[shadylane]

I'm disappointed in last condenser, thought it would work better than it did.
Anyway, it's time for the next design.
I think the next defleg will be in the shape of an inverted funnel

[shadylane]

Before I give up completely on this design
I installed a cold finger down the middle of it

[Yummyrum]

I think the next defleg will be in the shape of an inverted funnel

Going full circle Shady viewtopic.php?p=6834790#p6834831

BTW : keen to see how the cold finger helps . Couldn’t help wonder about the vapour chimney up the middle of your last one though .Cold finger should stop that .

[shadylane]

Going full circle Shady

Yep

BTW : keen to see how the cold finger helps . Couldn’t help wonder about the vapour chimney up the middle of your last one though .Cold finger should stop that .

I also think the addition of a cold finger will make it better.
Wonder if water flow direction will make a difference

[shadylane]

The cold finger made a small difference
3.4 L/M to knock down 6kw of steam
Changing the cooling water flow didn't have any effect on knock down power.

[Yummyrum]

Good onya Shady for playing and saying .
Gotta say I expected the cold finger to do a lot better .... but the prove is what it is .

Out of interest , how long was the concentric sheet condenser ( buggered if I know what you call it )

[shadylane]

Here Ya go

[Yummyrum]

Thankyou Sir
BTW : what would you call that Deflagmator style

[shadylane]

I'd call a tin can

[shadylane]

I think the next defleg will be in the shape of an inverted funnel

Going full circle Shady viewtopic.php?p=6834790#p6834831

Has anyone other than old-dog and rednose experimented with this Idea
With all the building and testing going on
I've been boiling too much water and gettin kinda low on drinking stock

[shadylane]

Here's the next beginning

[Chauncey]

Whacha cooking up with that

[shadylane]

Whacha cooking up with that

I ain't sure yet, but I figure it will waste lot's of time, supplies and material

[Chauncey]

Whacha cooking up with that

I ain't sure yet, but I figure it will waste lot's of time, supplies and material

down the road when i get my flute built im def gonna try some designs. I was using some packed CM columns i designed before but i have since went back to pot and thumper. the packed column didnt make the kind of one and done spirit i wanted. it was good but not good enough. the packing strips too much flavor out IMO.

anyway i was thinking of one that would be like one of those CFL lightbulbs with all the U shapes instead of the helix/coil style. all ran in series or even parallel via a coolant intake manifold.

[30xs]

So I decided to revive an old thread to try and contribute with some info that I have tried. I wound up building two different dephlegs for my flute during my build. I decided to try doing my first BW and running high reflux on 4” at 5500 watts. The first attempt was with a seven tube RC with 3/4 nominal tubing. To get complete reflux I was running in the neighborhood of 9-10 quarts a minute to knock it all down (seems high, but timed into quart jars repeatedly was in the 6 second fill time). I shut down and put my identical RC with 1” nominal tubes on top. The cooling water rate went to about 12-13 seconds per jar. Both dephlegs have 4.5” of cooled surface. The only real differences would be dwell time due to more open area and of course with less water space it would have a faster turnover rate. Here’s an image of both dephlegs.

Since I know have a dedicated water supply, and can see my results I am starting to look into the Shady’s style and numbers. I also can’t help but think about there not being any possibility of anything pooling on top of the RC. I have wound up a couple coils so far, but haven’t decided which one to run. Ones about 6’ of 3/8 O.D. and the other about 7’ of 1/4” O.D.

[shadylane]

You have my attention, go for it

[30xs]

You have my attention, go for it

You did most of the work before. I just swapped over to well fed lines and plumbed independently instead of out of a reservoir. It was crazy to see the water flow of my dephleg vs condenser. Do you have any suggestions/recommendations for the coils prior to installation? For the tests I may try mounting them so that they can be tested in both directions, cone up and cone down.

[30xs]

I decided to try out the 1/4” OD first, with hopes that it is the better of the two. I’ll be happy if it is at least better than what I have to cut down water consumption on neutral runs. Here’s the pieces fit without solder to this point. Is there any foreseen issues before buttoning it up? I do plan to try and get my fittings shortened up prior to solder. I don’t trust the thin wall small stuff to support the weight of cooling lines.

Bottom view

Top view

[Getsmokin]

On the same lines as your build.
You will need a very fine adjustment water valve.
https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79553