Show Us Your Dragon

jacksonbrown

This is a bit more like my preferred setup for a probe.
You only need one bend and can change direction with the tee. Then just stick the probe in the side.
You can still swing the arm out too if you want

punkin

Yep can have the collection point at any angle you want if you don't have to get an alcometer to float upright :O)

jez

@punkin thanks I thought that might of been the case,I changed it over last night and thanks for your help and great service :) :)
I have a day spare this weekend so I will be running her for the first time with 30%low-wines just making neutral at this stage so I can get used to it and how things work.

punkin

No worries Jez, thank you for your patience. I'm looking forward to your views of the Ace and the Parrot.

All the backorders are now sorted on the Ace of Hearts and there is one left in stock till my new order comes next month when pretty much all the out of stock items will be restocked.

Gee

@punkin, does that include 4" CDs?

punkin

Yes mate, i am only out of lenses and i have them coming. The CD lenses are better than ever, the samples look fantastic with the flame cut edges that should hopefully eliminate all the edge chipping the early models were prone to.

Gee

Sweet, thanks :-)

richard

Playing with ideas for a small boiler and fitted with an onion expansion top that is super cheap to make.

CothermanDistilling

Here you go...

grim

I like that serial number!

CothermanDistilling

B-)

Moonshine

The Power Of The Dragon! \m/

richard

@CothermanDistilling said: Here you go...

Looks great.

Do you find that it gives you a great result on your 50L still. Here I also mean, when vapour passes through the onion it undergoes pressure and velocity change and ultimately in part condenses back to the boiler. i.e. it is in part a very small dephlegmator.

So it also begs the question ........ why not leave your dephlegmator in position with "small" amounts of cooling water passing through. This for sure will perform the same function.

jacksonbrown

Just a thought but would that depressurisation result in condensation or superheated vapour?? Or possibly neither?
I'll have to ruminate on that one a bit.

richard

A quick question regarding correct ONION orientation with tapered connection. Bulb on the top or on the bottom. ????

Thermal logic tells me on the bottom ??

jacksonbrown

Surface area at top. Reflux runs down.

jez

Finally have my upgrade set up and ready to run hopefully on the weekend.

A big THANKS to @punkin for your great service ounce again :)

Smaug

Looks great.

punkin

You wont knowyourself at 5l per hour Jez. B-)

richard

Spot the bling

Kapea

GASP!
Plastic on the product outlet?!
Oh the humanity!! ;)

Nice looking machine jez. You're gonna love it.

jez

@Kapea Its not plastic its silicon hose from a brew shop. Is that alright to use ??

Smaug

He's just messin with ya @jez :)

Kapea

On another forum you would be banned for life just for thinking about allowing anything but metal touch your spirits. I was making fun of them.

jez

Cool..... I don't like the look of it so when punkin gets back I'll be getting a stainless parrot just for ease of catchment and some more stainless as I'm only making triple spirit run kale wash vodka and now with my run times dramatically reduced might even have a few goes at quadruple run vodka. Awesome equipment so easy to use and makes great products.

zzyzx

Finally got her fired up this weekend:

And the result is spectacular - especially for a beginner like me:

Thanks to the boys and girls at SD NA for all your help (and patience!) to get this done. I couldn't be more pleased.

jez

@zzyzx lots of nice stainless there.Do you have plates in all of those Tee sections.

zzyzx

@jez said: zzyzx lots of nice stainless there.Do you have plates in all of those Tee sections.

yessir, 9 plates w/ procaps

jez

@zzyzx very nice. What do you make and how fast does she run ? If you don't mind me asking.

zzyzx

Thanks @jez. Sorry I really don't have anything to go by as far as run time goes yet. I just got her set up and running, then started twisting knobs to see what happens. So mostly me experimenting... Anyway, she ran for a couple of hours with about 1800 W in, then the pump for the cooling water quit. But I did get about a gallon of some pretty sweet hearts before the pump died...

New pump is on the way...