Is Element Protection a thing ?

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Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the right category to post my question this but here it goes.

I see most stills have a direct heating element that goes straight into the liquid to be distilled, Like beer or wine .
but this has the caveat that you cant have grains or residue due to the possibility of it scorching and ruining both your precious beer and heating coil .
So it dawned on me that I could use a stainless steel micron mesh to make a "cage" or sock of some sort to slip the heating element in. Something like this an "hop spider"

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Or maybe its better to have some sort of false bottom to be able to distil on grain ?

So my question is has any one here tried to " protect" her direct immersion heating element with some type of fine mesh or is this not worth the hassle ?

Thank you!

ps. please excuse my English some of this was translated in google .