StillSmart

Posted: **Thu May 26, 2016 3:17 pm**

Hi,

Been looking into adding pennies to my air still instead of the ceramic rings but I'm not sure how many to add. I've heard a handful but that can vary of course. What do people recommend?

Thanks

Posted: **Thu May 26, 2016 3:56 pm**

Hi Fjorda and welcome to the forum.
Very important to make sure all the coins
are copper, use a magnet to check.
Some of the guys told me to cover to bottom.
I didn't have enough to do that, so have
about a dozen coins. I also use the ceramics,
they clean up ok in coke as do copper coins.

Posted: **Thu May 26, 2016 6:30 pm**

3 shillings and threpence three farthings worth of old pennies should do it

Posted: **Thu May 26, 2016 9:21 pm**

Thats a lot of copper!!
Do you know the scrap value??
Could buy a house for that in 1936

Posted: **Fri May 27, 2016 7:06 am**

fjorda wrote:Hi, Been looking into adding pennies to my air still instead of the ceramic rings but I'm not sure how many to add. I've heard a handful but that can vary of course. What do people recommend? Thanks

Welcome to the forum Fjorda....don't worry to much about "how many to add" any copper in the boiler will help....pennies/copper pipe rings/flat...it'll all help.

There's no set amount as long as you have some copper in the still.

throw in the ceramic rings also...not going to harm anything.

Posted: **Fri May 27, 2016 3:09 pm**

Welcome to the forum. Have you been distilling long?

Half the tumbler full - And a few bits of pipe if it comes to hand. Once the bottom has a good cover, you can dispense with the rings - they really are superfluous.

Posted: **Fri May 27, 2016 3:19 pm**

gaza the instructor wrote:Thats a lot of copper!!
Do you know the scrap value??
Could buy a house for that in 1936

I Did

Posted: **Fri May 27, 2016 10:18 pm**

You are obviously older than you look VT

Robert.

Posted: **Sat May 28, 2016 6:02 am**

nice investment !!

StillSmart

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