First Time Running Steam Stripper

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Things went very well. The cans are 8 gallon and 16 gallon. The thumper connector is 1 inch diameter and goes down to 1 inch above the bottom, the rest of it is 2 inch diameter.

The heating element is 5500w 240v ultra low watt density, I'm controlling it with an scr from Amazon.

The coolant is water, running it through a radiator with air flow from a box fan.

The radiator and fan slow down the heat increase of the coolant water but doesn't reachequilibrium. It did balance out at 120f when I was heating with a 1500w hotplate. By the end of the run it was up to 140f and I was getting steam out of the condenser so I moved the pump over to another water bucket to get the last half gallon out.

The weird thing is, I was getting a little puking at the end, maybe from the volume increasing?

Went from 6ish hour stripping for runs to like 3ish hours.

Regardless, I'm very happy with the results, very glad I spent the time and money to switch over to steam.