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vino thanks for the link been searching for copper scrubbers for over 12 month
cheers again

Hi guys - I've been following the iStill SSP posts and am tempted. I'm assuming that I'd use a SS scrubber top and bottom and copper SSPs - is that right? Has anyone already used them with a T500 column? Will 1 litre be enough? Will I stop asking questions?

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andymac wrote:Hi guys - I've been following the iStill SSP posts and am tempted. I'm assuming that I'd use a SS scrubber top and bottom and copper SSPs - is that right? Has anyone already used them with a T500 column? Will 1 litre be enough? Will I stop asking questions? A

After consulting Odin from iSTILL, my T500 is packed with SS SPP. I stripped my T500 down and fitted 1 copper scrubber to the bottom of the condenser coil by making an offset hole in it and sliding it up the reflux cooling tube, thus completely stopping SPP geting into the coil, filled it with SPP and held it in place with half of a SS scrubber at the bottom. The T500 will take just over half a litre of SPP to fill it. I did not put anything else in the column. DO NOT USE COPPER SPP (iSTILL recommendation)



The T500 is very easy to strip down.
1. remove the top "U" pipe.
2. undo the 4 screws holding the black plastic condenser brackets.
3. Ease off the condenser.
4. Pull off the plastic water outlet and undo the brass nut underneath it.
5. Push the brass union of the reflux condenser into the column hole.
6 Gently pull the reflux condenser up and out of the column.
7. DO NOT REMOVE THE METAL STAR CLIP FROM THE TOP OF THE REFLUX CONDENSER WHERE IT PASSES THROUGH THE PLASTIC CAP.

vino-tinto wrote:

andymac wrote:Hi guys - I've been following the iStill SSP posts and am tempted. I'm assuming that I'd use a SS scrubber top and bottom and copper SSPs - is that right? Has anyone already used them with a T500 column? Will 1 litre be enough? Will I stop asking questions? A

After consulting Odin from iSTILL, my T500 is packed with SS SPP. I stripped my T500 down and fitted 1 copper scrubber to the bottom of the condenser coil by making an offset hole in it and sliding it up the reflux cooling tube, thus completely stopping SPP geting into the coil, filled it with SPP and held it in place with half of a SS scrubber at the bottom. The T500 will take just over half a litre of SPP to fill it. I did not put anything else in the column. DO NOT USE COPPER SPP (iSTILL recommendation)



The T500 is very easy to strip down.
1. remove the top "U" pipe.
2. undo the 4 screws holding the black plastic condenser brackets.
3. Ease off the condenser.
4. Pull off the plastic water outlet and undo the brass nut underneath it.
5. Push the brass union of the reflux condenser into the column hole.
6 Gently pull the reflux condenser up and out of the column.
7. DO NOT REMOVE THE METAL STAR CLIP FROM THE TOP OF THE REFLUX CONDENSER WHERE IT PASSES THROUGH THE PLASTIC CAP.

Thanks Vino - I'm surprised about the SS SPPs, but if that's what you and Odin recommend, who am i to argue? Thanks for the really detailed talk though too - extremely useful!

Andy

RE copper scrubbers. I too ordered several so called copper scrubbers and they were just copper coloured. The only ones that tested as pure copper with the magnet test was http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spic-Span-Chore ... +Scrubbers