Interesting Glass Column

CothermanDistilling

CothermanDistilling

CothermanDistilling

grim

Interesting, never saw a valve tray in a beverage still before.

I don't at all understand the point of the class outer shell on the product condenser. So you can watch the shell full of water?

CothermanDistilling

I think the condenser may be reverse, and have water in the tubes, see last pics of back.. will ask

grim

Ah ok, then at least there would be something to watch :)

Kapea

Yeah, It looks like cold fingers. And they don't seem too concerned about copper on the downside.

A pretty column, but it seems a bit over-engineered to me. Unless you're going Steampunk... :-B

A display at the ADI conference?

Harry

Looks very much like a training still to me. There's a reboiler; a downcomer trap; a valve tray; a sieve tray; a bubblecap tray; a disc & donut; a catalyzer; and yes the product condenser is coolant in tubes and vapor in shell. It's similar to one I built many years back using lamp glasses, for just that training purpose.

Harry

punkin

Yep, it's got to be to demonstrate the different behaviors on different plates. The boiler is tiny for the column size.
Pretty little thing though.

Kapea

@CothermanDistilling said:

Interesting reflux condenser (plate?).

Anavrin

Nice bit of kit, I'd have it, not sure I could afford it though!

grim

Almost seems like some kind of trade sample/salesman unit. @Harry probably right on. Maybe a one off?

CothermanDistilling

It is at 'Moonshine University'...

Anavrin

Moonshine University sounds like my kind of place :-)

CothermanDistilling

Check out the botanical library (and Clay from corsair in black)

captainshooch

Great pics Mike. Keep em coming. Hope ya'll had fun at ADI 2015 :-bd

TheMechWarrior

Another lovely post, keep em coming and thanks =D>

Kapea

Can anybody shed some light on what type of condenser this column uses as a reflux condenser/deflegmator? Its hard to see what it is in these pictures. Looks like some kind of a plate?

captainshooch

@Harry , any chance of you posting a pic. Sure would love to see it.

rossco

Thanks for posting CD.

Harry

@captainshooch, will vids do?

Initial experimentation stage. Concept & Build/mockup vid circa 2012...
This was sorta pre StillDragon era. Most of us handmade our own kit back then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1qRZJi32B0

Test demo vid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3WY-bkebH0

Harry

Smaug

Harry do you run that system any more?

Do you recall where the videos that Decoy did can be found?

Harry

@Smaug I'm doing a rework of the build atm. Progress is slow, other life stuff etc. re Decoy's vids...prolly try a search on Pint's site or maybe HD.

Smaug

K thanks. I'm sure that vid is burried deep :-B

captainshooch

Thanks Harry, awesome...great stuff. Wish more people would experiment and share their experiences. Thank you! :-bd