electric jar swapper

[shadylane]

Some body needs to experiment with building an "electric jar swapper"
Here's the timer I've ordered
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And I'm thinking about ordering this for the jar rotator
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[seamusm53]

Does this mean you intend to walk away from the still for more than just a minute? (which I hesitate to admit to having done....)

[shadylane]

I'm too dammed lazy to walk away from or to the still.
I'm going to sit in my chair with a drink in my hand and watch.

[Yummyrum]

Ha shady . I get were you are coming from .
I've spend hours watching and changing those jars ......its good thinking time .

Have to admit to dreaming about this too . My dream was not to rotate the jars but to rotate the spout from jar to jar with a servo motor run off a Picaxe , LOL , guess Audrinos are more popular these days . anyways , I imagined a device to measure collection rate that filled a container with about 50mls then switched over to another , then back again .

Knowing how much was being collected , I'd direct the spout to say put 100mls in the fores jar then start filling the heads jars with say 300 mls each then once in guaranteed hearts , fill a larger jar for a while before switching back to smaller jars towards tails . Thought the servo / controller could log the position of each jar and turn the spout accordingly .

Do I endorse automated collection ? ....No Bloody way in hell ....there is way to many layers of shit to go wrong .

Do I endorse creativity and sitting watching your machine do its thing while standing by to sort out the inevitable F@#@Kup ....Hell Yeah

Go for it shady

[goose eye]

Superman got palace of solitude
Ole boys got a likker still

Ole boys talked bout that once on a long long night after a long long day but with pulleys an ropes but none of em was smart enough to make it simple enough.

So I'm tole

[Bushman]

Instead of a timed controller you need a remote control like on your TV set!

[HDNB]

bigger batches, bigger collection vessels. if you do the same recipe and a good mash... cuts on the fly are easier. thqt way you only got to make two jar swaps. (and a wee fores cut)

[zapata]

These things exist on the laboratory scale, often for chromatography as much as distillation, and having miniscule collection sizes. I've looked at them several times and thought about a larger version, can't be too hard.

I'd consider it more of a safety than a dependable feature, I'd still keep an eye on the still, but even doing that sometimes you just get hypnotized and are a little late on the swap.

[fizzix]

I had to check to see if it was April 1st.

[shadylane]

I had to check to see if it was April 1st.

I'm serious, just waiting on the delivery truck.
On a side note, I live so far out in the sticks.
I have to order something, just so the old dog gets to bark at the fedex truck

[Tomb]

This courtesy Riku’s book....

(Build this into a mason jar cap)
Make one to overflow into second jar, or make a bunch to fill a bunch of jars automatically.

T

[shadylane]

Thanks for the info
I should have thought of that before spending money

[shadylane]

Obviously, large mouth jars will be needed and a cake pan to contain spillage