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I've just completed my new pot still for the T500/Grainfather. The old one was upright and tended to cause a tipping motion when removing, this one is balanced.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ke57ebyamdm6jv2/Pot%20still.JPG?dl=0

EDIT: See http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4342 for plans

looks great Vino

billmcc wrote:looks great Vino

Sure does. Especially on top of that Grainfather.....can see I'll have to give some serious consideration to this

Well done mate....nice to see things moving on....I need to find time from somewhere to get on with my build..

Let us know how it works...have you run it yet???

Wow! That looks mighty fine vino. Puts my Still Spirits alembic condenser to shame!

Very nice! Looks a lot like one I'm sure I've seen YHB post pictures of, I always wondered what the offset design brought to the party & you just answered it...a better balanced still, very clever

Nice one VT, as said above, nice to see someone doing extra sfuff, always good to see stuff going off in different directions.

Robert.

Icefever wrote:Let us know how it works...have you run it yet???

I've done a cleaning run with 10L of vinegar water to test for leaks and all was OK.
I've got some wash ready to run and am going to use the Grainfather with the ALVA to see how the distilling program works.

Brilliant....I'm looking forward to your first proper run VT.

Beautiful work sir, wish I had the skills.
Hope all goes well on your 1st run VT.

Not bad at all. is that Braided Silicone hose?

Have you had any issues with those hoses kinking when the water gets warm?

Myles wrote:Not bad at all. is that Braided Silicone hose?

Have you had any issues with those hoses kinking when the water gets warm?

As it's just for cooling water, I use braided fuel pipe and no I've never had it kink so far.

I've just done stripping runs on three 25L Vodka Star washes followed by a spirit run.

It seems this build is better than my old upright design. The spirit was achieving 92% to start with on a low power setting and I stopped collecting hearts when it started to reduce flow and I had to up the power, the rest down to 40% will go into the next spirit run.

This resulted in some very good neutral spirit, which when run through the Essencia has turned out as clean as if I had run it through the Boka.

I can only assume that because of the angle of the 54 mm pipework some of the vapour is cooling and running back causing some form of refluxing.

Pot stilling at 92% is a great achievement, who needs a reflux condenser?!

Benoit wrote:Pot stilling at 92% is a great achievement, who needs a reflux condenser?!

That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the hydrometer almost disappearing down the parrot.