Thinking about it, it doesn't quite ring true. When distilling and taking off at 93% the vapour temp is going to be about 79oC.
When pot stilling for the sake of argument you'll start at 80% and take off down to 20%. This means the vapour will go from 80oC to 93oC over the course of the run.
My experience of pot stilling you hold a fairly high ABV for 2/3rds of the run, so say from 80% to 40%, this means the temp has gone from 80oCish up to 87oC. then it will climb to the 93oC for the remainder.
So for most of the run its within 8oC of the normal operating temperatures. Also the time taken for pot stilling is much shorter than doing a reflux run, so the exposure time would be shorter.
I find it hard to believe that a material is being used that is so close to its maximum operating temperature, and that something that "could" be used to boil water is not using materials rated at 100oC.
I did use my T500 as a pot still several times without issue, I'm just wondering if someone with an agenda against synthetics could be muddying the waters. Or not.
Has anyone else tried using the T500 as a pot still by changing the cooling lines, and did you have any issues? Just wondering if we have someone other than RAD14701 (who doesn't own a T500 as far as I know) who has had issues on this front?
Not trying to be dismissive of his claims, I'd just like to see a source of an owner having issues before making my mind up.Statistics: Posted by Capt-Cudellez — Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:42 pm
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