Hi all, just to keep everyone updated about this - I have spoken to those in the know, and I can state that this is NOT made by the same manufacturer of the EasyStill and SmartStill. It's a similar looking thing, apparently made in China. As such, I can't say anything about how comparable it is with the others, but what I can say is that it's not a 'replacement model' or anything like that, it's a competitor (and from the sounds of things, without much in the way of instructions!).
Taking all that into account, I have no idea how well it will work - it may be 'vanilla' and need modifying in order to be any good for distilling, same as the original water distilling EasyStill and SmartStill would do (there are two versions on sale of each, one factory modified for alcohol and one intended for water). The main modifications are turning down the heater (covered by your temp dial I would assume), closing up a chlorine vent (don't know if yours has one) and improving the cooling (again, no idea if it would need this or not). Just because it's sold as working for alcohol, that doesn't mean it's specifically set up that way as it is - if not then it'll work, but not efficiently.Statistics: Posted by Jimmy — Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:41 pm
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