in line slanted plate on pot still

[carlos castenada]

hi all,

have recently been slowly gathering bits to upgrade pot still and keg, looking to decrease time and increase pot size.
has anyone out there used a in line slanted plate design on a pot still. Have wound a large 1/4 inch coil that will knock down upto 3 KW easy and lilke the neatness of the condensor been inline with the very short columb.

not sure how this would effect flavour?. As having no lyne arm as such.

cheers

[punkin]

Makes it hard to run a parrott to measure output, from what i understand, output is hot.

Have a look at Pints, mine and i think rumbulls condensors, very compact and very efficient if you want a pot still.

[decoy]

I would take what your trying to say is the use of bokakob's slanted plate ..

most people have a slanted plate on there still some open needle valve all the way so there is no reflux to use it as a pot stil.
others have unions at the base of the column and a second union just below the slanted plates so they can remove the column section.

cheers

[carlos castenada]

hi

Makes it hard to run a parrott to measure output, from what i understand, output is hot.

Have a look at Pints, mine and i think rumbulls condensors, very compact and very efficient if you want a pot still.

thanks for that, i understand about the collection tube being at the centre of the keg making collection into parrot harder,
surely if coil is big enough it will take away any heat from condensed liquid.
have a pot still at present with a lieberg condensor on it. have no intention of extending the columb as have another reflux columb that i use.
just like the neatness of not having a lyne arm or lieberg.

cheers

[decoy]

there are some that also run a lieberg condensor on the output

[carlos castenada]

hi

, from what i understand, output is hot.

yes that makes sense, on the last plate which leads to collection outlet one side of the plate has condensed distillate runnning down it whilst on the other side hot vapour rises and moves past to be condensed, some heat transfer from the hot vapour to the conendsate must occur, which may result in a hotter output and or unwanted reflux.

thanks for that info. punkin

[Hawke]

I've made a couple of runs with just the head from my 3". Distillate will come out very warm. Since I use flame heat, I need a way to get the output away from the flame, so I use a liebeg condenser to transfer it to the collection table. Depends on ambient temp as to whether I need to run any cooling on it.