Usge (who's head still hurts)

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No gap the downcomer plate is hard soldered to the folded down section of the bubble plate.Usge wrote:I'm not quite seeing how the downcomers work. Is there a gap between the fold in the plate and the downcomer where the distillate runs down between them?
This has been corrected, the curve should be in the shape of a smile.Usge wrote:Also, you indicate the bottom of the downcomers should be a frown not a smile
Wouldn't be a bad thing if a small percentage of higher proof made its way down to the next lowest level.Usge wrote:what keeps the falling distillate from just running down the open space behind the weir downcomer on the top plate instead of filling it?
They are virtually the same with a single bubble cap, but there are two tubular downcomers instead of a single weir downcomer.Rum Bum wrote: I don't see anything close to as complex as these plates, on theirs
olddog wrote:Great video of a Holstein in action, my current design is based on a scaled down version with single bubble plates.
This illustration is from Holsteins brochure
What suprises me is the diameter of the takeoff tube leading to the condenser.
OD
That was for some apple wine, I make wine as well as spirit.Rum Bum wrote:And OD it looks like you had some apple mash fermenting in the background of one of your pics, have you ran that through yet
The original Magic Flute was designed to be built by anyone with basic tools to bring a plated column to the home distiller, this has been built by others with bubble caps/ valve plates and perforated plates depending on what you wanted from the design. The Flute design works exceptionally well my guess is that there would be well over a hundred now built, KS has started his business building the original Flute design,banjo wrote:Maybe, just maybe this is a really really stupid question , & I really don't want to start any fires, but here goes. Is there a reason why you specificaly went with a bubblecap on the center area of the plate? other than making it a bit "easier" on the manufacturing side wouldn't a perf. tray or valve do the same job considering if the plate is disabled there are 2 vapor paths(or one if valves are used). If turbulant flow is what you were wanting couldnt it have be made with directed perf holes? or (I havnt quite given it much thought yet..) some kind of reed valve?
So it has been confirmed that these are in fact tray disabling valves and not just tray drains for cleaning after a run? It's really hard to believe they would just return the condensed liquid that worked so hard to get up to the point of an open valve. Just for the valve to return it back to the boiler. Doesn't seam very efficient.Samohon wrote:IMO, the answer to this lies in the plate disabling attached to the column.Heres another Image: Look at the 22 plate still to the right, thats 22 disabling valves at the back. I'am convinced that to control the abv coming of one of these stills, the plate disabling system must be utilised in the build...
Its gonna be friggin awesome tweaking this system to achieve an output that I can put straight onto oak...
And so it continues...