StillSmart

Posted: **Sat Oct 01, 2016 6:11 pm**

Curmudgeon wrote:I think £8.90 a bit steep, but that's fair for postage.

I do get the coinage or whatever going quiet, but never the lid lifting, which is why I'd replace the ring.

Sometimes I have to get swmbo to hold the still with one oven glove while I wrestle the lid with another. No way mine would lift on it's own without a major problem.

edit : a bungee cord hooked under both sides and holding the lid down woulddn't interfere with airflow much

Ordered after 2.00pm yesterday ...here today lunchtime, cannot gripe about anything, I just hope these ones don't go saggy.

Might try the bungee cord if I hit burp time.

Posted: **Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:43 pm**

Hard to believe that despite my Gung-Ho approach and just a mug full of Copper, I have not YET had a problem

Robert.

Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2016 5:50 am**

Might try the bungee cord if I hit burp time.

Not sure that's a good idea. The top doesn't lock down for a reason.

Solve the problem.. trying to contain it you potentially making it worse. Never forget you are boiling a flammable liquid. Would you be more careful of it was petrol?

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2016 6:52 pm**

I had a massive surge that blew the top right off the base a while ago. (no one was hurt but if they had been within 4 foot of it they would have been). I bought new ceramic saddle things and chucked some copper in. Never happened again.

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:29 pm**

Has anyone had the top seal expand and fall off?

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2016 8:14 pm**

I would not try and tie the lid down
it could turn the whole thing into
a petrol type bomb !!!

Posted: **Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:44 pm**

Gadget it might be safest to get a new seal and put some assorted copper in it. You are beginning to worry me

Posted: **Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:36 pm**

Mash wrote:Gadget it might be safest to get a new seal and put some assorted copper in it. You are beginning to worry me

If you read the posts before passing comments, then answering them might just be more helpful.

Posted: **Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:09 pm**

Im sure when you fit one of those new seals
things will be fine. They are a snug fit,
or should be and it should take quite some
effort to get the lid off mate.

Posted: **Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:32 pm**

gaza the instructor wrote:Im sure when you fit one of those new seals
things will be fine. They are a snug fit,
or should be and it should take quite some
effort to get the lid off mate.

The new one is perfect and have finished the spirit run, apart from about 1.5 litres left over, I was just wondering if anyone might know what caused the old one to expand by about 20mm in diameter.

IG

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:59 am**

Good news.

I have had to replaced one after a lot of work. But it never fell off. Just didn't seal well.

We are lead to believe silicone is heat proof, but I think perhaps it is over exaggerated. The prolonged heat and alcohol exposure must be what causes the degradation. How many runs had it done?

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:54 am**

Mash wrote:Good news.

I have had to replaced one after a lot of work. But it never fell off. Just didn't seal well.

We are lead to believe silicone is heat proof, but I think perhaps it is over exaggerated. The prolonged heat and alcohol exposure must be what causes the degradation. How many runs had it done?

More than 50, around half of that just distilling water, it was always possible to squeeze it in but when it fell off it was time to go. I wonder if there is a lubricant that is safe and would stop any absorption into the silicone?

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:43 pm**

a google for food safe ptfe lubricant comes up with stuff, but not cheap.

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:03 pm**

If you didn't like the bungee cord idea, you're not going to like this guy's still ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpzUx8F4LY&list=PLW1Y6AdEtfV_LlQG6777nZVsdXTGP4Qso&index=3

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:36 pm**

Is that a brick copy of the Great Wall of China
on the top of his boiler?
What on earth for

StillSmart

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