OK, so I've just purchased a 4" Crystal Dragon but I've got a major issue.
I got my new 200L boiler back from the welder today and eagerly set up for a run using the Dragon for the very first time I took things slow, bring the temp up and watching it like a hawk.
As soon as it reach temp the 4 glass tubes began to move on the gasket, sliding out of line of each other, causing product to leak as the cap plates charged, frantically I attempted to adjust the clamp down rods assuming I had to much pressure on them, it helped a little but with the pressure the gaskets began to leak more, I began to manually push the glass tubes from side to side trying to keep the lined up but as I fixed one another would move.
Defeated and deflated I shut the unit down.
It’s like the gaskets become soft and don’t hold there shape enough to hold the glass in place, or maybe the rods can't support the weight of the deflated and condenser?
Can anyone shed light on what’s going on?
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I find a video says a thousand words, so take a look at theses and let me know if it is something I'm doing wrong or if something is wrong with the still:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOy3YVwlKXQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H14SCGR1vk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeb99l_n-IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQmOjURzJzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkfEjo0ifZQ
We had some problems with some of the lenses being too rounded on the edges. When there was more than 4 plates they could squirm as you have described.
The solution was to place them on some fine grit paper on a flat surface and flatten the bottom and top edges by sanding.
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Awesome, I’ll try that, cheers Punkin
Success! Cheers for that Punkin, solve the issue and completed a run last night \m/ :-bd
Good stuff mate.
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