Vinegar run for new electric heating element?

[PalCabral]

Hej distillers.

The vinegar run and sac run are established safty measures before putting new still components in contact with products we aim to consume. Does this also apply for new electric immersion heaters? I assume so but still wanted to ask.

And while I am at it, why do we do the we do a run with vinegar? Is it the acid we are after? Why then vinegar? Is it the affordability of vinegar that made it the chosen acid or does vinegar possess something else that makes it the prime candidate?

[Yummyrum]

Personally no , I wouldn’t worry about a vinegar run on a new element .Never had a dirty new one but if I did , I ‘d scrub it by hand .
Vinegar runs are about getting to places that you can’t physically reach to clean off oils and fluxes . Insides of worms or 90° bends at tops of risers etc .

Not 100% sure why Vinegar is an acid of choice . But it is cheap , plentiful and has a relatively low boiling point ( being typically 5% strength it boils close to water temp .)
It sure does a good job of stripping back copper. But I don’t think it’s use should be overdone .

It’s my least favourite method of cleaning a still .I hate my metal shed and all the things in it having corrosive vapour pumped into it .

[PalCabral]

I hate wiring a new element and that cheap SCR thing from China, that's what I hate. I'm not even a hobby electrician, there are laws that should prevent me from even trying to wire it, which is why I ask my dad for help. So the good thing is that I at least will get a couple of hours of quality time with my 86 year old father.

[Pure Old Possum Piss]

I hate wiring a new element and that cheap SCR thing from China, that's what I hate. I'm not even a hobby electrician, there are laws that should prevent me from even trying to wire it, which is why I ask my dad for help. So the good thing is that I at least will get a couple of hours of quality time with my 86 year old father.

[MooseMan]

Hej distillers.

The vinegar run and sac run are established safty measures before putting new still components in contact with products we aim to consume. Does this also apply for new electric immersion heaters? I assume so but still wanted to ask.

And while I am at it, why do we do the we do a run with vinegar? Is it the acid we are after? Why then vinegar? Is it the affordability of vinegar that made it the chosen acid or does vinegar possess something else that makes it the prime candidate?

Yeah just give your new element a bit of a scrub and a good wipe over with a clean rag soaked in fores and you'll be good I'd say.