T500 best practice guide?

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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby Icefever » Sat Oct 15, 2016 6:36 am

I knew there was a post/photo of a T5 column stripped down to its parts, Vino Tito did it here...scroll down to VT post..#3

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2799&start=15

Now you get to see what is inside.. ;)
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby Brewhunter » Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:10 am

How many pennies are you guys using in the boiler?
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby inspector gadget » Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:03 am

about 50p's worth here... ;D
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby vino-tinto » Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:57 am

[quote="brewhunter"]How many pennies are you guys using in the boiler?[/quote

Why do you need any, it's got copper saddles already in, all you need are boil enhancers
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby Squint » Thu Oct 20, 2016 2:24 pm

I came across this thread on HD, maybe of interest to some folk
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 33&t=62783
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby Brewhunter » Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:19 pm

vino-tinto wrote:
brewhunter wrote:How many pennies are you guys using in the boiler?[/quote

Why do you need any, ear it's got copper saddles already in, all you need are boil enhancers



Hi VT I read somewhere pennies were still nessesary in the boiler to stop it over boiling :-\ I bought my T500 second hand and the top of the column seems to be packed with small copper saddles and the rest of it with stainless steel ones, loose in the box were half a dozen ceramic things that look like teeth I'm assuming there should be more of these?
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby Easydrinker » Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:02 am

Maybe I am real bad, and when I die will burn in hell forever, but that link showed me the dark side where I do not want to be. ;)

And Pennies make great boil pieces.
Lots of stuff makes boil pieces in the boiler, why not use copper?
And have the edge?.....

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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby Curmudgeon » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:42 am

This refers to grainfather boiler (essentially same as T500 boiler until now in this context) and alembic pot condenser so is not totally relevant, but it's nice to see still spirits discussing heads and tails, double distills etc
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby srpsrp » Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:25 am

There is a pretty comprehensive user manual. The rest is up to you ! I don't buy the still spirits turbo yeast, Alcotech 48 is better. Check out this on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wd-Oan4NmQ video also.
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Re: T500 best practice guide?

Postby gaza the instructor » Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:06 am

You could use marbles as biol thingys
I was given a nice sized bag of old
pennies by father in law, about
3 shillings 6pence worth, so I use
them :)
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