Hey all, well I have a wash ready for a sacrificial and a ujssm for my 1st run all ready to go
My still took almost a month to get to me but alas it has arrived. I have the essential extractor ll from brewhaus, with the 15.5g boiler. I am going to be running as a pot still but I have a ? I know to not run the water to the condenser at the top and only run it in the Liebig for pot still mode, but my still has the ports open for the condenser water to run through. Should I connect the hoses as though I were running it with reflux and just never send water to the top condenser? I don't want to just leave the holes open for fear of losing a lot of product... also I was planning on only using the top section with Liebig attached and not having the center column while in pot still mode, will this help/hurt me? Thanks all, I have been researching and learning for months, finally the time has come!
For reference on what I mean when I say holes at the top:
P.s. The still is cleaned and I will be doing a vinegar run before the sacrificial run
Anything is possible, just takes a massive influx of time and cash.
No product should come out of the water connections. If there is, then something has gone wrong. The reflux condenser works about the same as the Liebig. It is basically a water jacket on top so that when the vapor cools it falls down the column instead of down the inner tube of the Liebig
The reflux condenser water path is totally separate from the product vapor path. If you do not connect the water lines you will not lose vapor out of those holes. Try it with water in the boiler, or during your vinegar run, to satisfy yourself that this is true.
Using this as a pot still (no reflux) it won't make any significant difference whether you have that center portion included or not.
MmmPeace wrote:Thanks guys, stupid ? On my part thanks for the reassurance and info!
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Just a thought. Although you are running in pot still mode. Put all your packing in place and give it a good clean also. You will need some copper contact in the vapor path in either mode that you run.
thanks for the reassurance and info!
