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Imake the makers of T500 & Grainfather have issued a recall on the copper parrot they sell, retailers are told to make full refund. No reason given for recall.

That doesn't sound good...

For what it is, I can only see it containing high levels of lead in any solder they have used.

What else could it be.

Given Imakes level of exposure to the home brew industry as a whole I wouldn't expect that to be the case....

Having said that am aware of some odd occurrences from that direction, time to time.

And then, manufacturing in (cough, cough) China, sometimes you get what you pay for/don't pay for - delete as applicable......

I would guess Lead as the reason here, but what do I know?

Robert.

+1 there really isn't anything else

Have just noticed the parrot recall only affects parrots used with the alembic dome.

If parrot were purchased to use with T500, recall doesn't apply.
Would indicate issue is not leaden.....

I confess I only saw the one parrot for both types (UK)

its a lot of money and yes i did say that.

Ps. Temp that distillate comes out of the copper condenser is
quite high, maybe peps have been scalding them selves

Curmudgeon wrote:I confess I only saw the one parrot for both types (UK)

Your eyes did NOT let you down....

gaza the instructor wrote:its a lot of money and yes i did say that.

Ps. Temp that distillate comes out of the copper condenser is
quite high, maybe peps have been scalding them selves

Well there's the thing I can't savvy......why peeps are so proudly quoting, and showing, their off-take results at the parrot

Those results are skewed, surely

I'd love to have a parrot but my off-take temps are so high I just set the lot aside until the next day when I can extract some meaningful %'s........

I guess that your parrot needs space for a thermometer as well, then you can do the math.
Or fit some control to reduce the temp. of the distillate.
Or wait until the next day....

Robert.

Longer run of curly copper before the parrot would help.

Well there's the thing I can't savvy......why peeps are so proudly quoting, and showing, their off-take results at the parrot

Those results are skewed, surely

I'd love to have a parrot but my off-take temps are so high I just set the lot aside until the next day when I can extract some meaningful %'s........ [/quote]

I dont use parrot on a spirit run only a strip run.
I use a Refractometer and collect in jars like most
of us do

The Temp is pretty good out of the AS, but even so there is massive inaccuracy do to the volumes - and the fact we will be mixing it all together .....

I use mine as a progress indicator on the webcam.