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Hey all, im upgrading my still, am going to make a liebig condensor to replace my worm. The worm works well, but is bulky and needs to be watched that it dosent overflow. My stills a 50l keg with 2 ring gas burner, colunm is 1m high by 50mm wide. Reflux is 4 cross flow pipes through the top quater, witch adjusted right can go from no reflux to total. My question is, im using 15mm copper for the inside of the liebig an 50mm (only because thats what i have lying around) copper for the outer jacket. What length should my liebig be at a minimum? Considering I strip on pot mode at full gas, then slow it down for second reflux run.
Cheers for any help mk

Never Sean one done with a 2' outer!, wouldn't need to be as long as using 3/4' outer but would still need some length I'd imagine, how much I couldn't say!. It would be very heavy if it was to long!!. Have you thought of doing a shot gun condenser?, shorter and they knock down alot.

Check out the condenser calc on the parent site. That will tell you how long to make it

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Water and copper weight could be an issue by using a 2" outer jacket... The lack of turbulation within the water jacket could be another issue... There is good reason why you don't see liebigs built as you have planned... Whether you have the copper on hand or not isn't logical reasoning, in my honest opinion... A 3/4" over 1/2" with a wire turbulator, or 1" over 3/4", would be better choices... Several members are able to knock down everything a 5500W element can throw at it using 3/4" over 1/2" with minimal coolant flow in the 24" - 36" range... This is one instance where bigger isn't necessarily better... Length over girth... Better to have more length than you need but too much girth is, well, just too much... Hmmm...

Cool so it is to big for what i need. No reason I cant split it an take some dia out of it then resolder. Could add turbulator easly enough aswell. So is there a standard length one would go for? 500mm?

beefbandit wrote:Cool so it is to big for what i need. No reason I cant split it an take some dia out of it then resolder. Could add turbulator easly enough aswell. So is there a standard length one would go for? 500mm?

24"/600mm - 36"/900mm (1m)... Again, better to be longer rather than shorter than needed...

Awesome. Ill go around a meter. Cheers for the help once again.