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First off. Why are you raising and lowering it. I have missed something.

Fix idea. A long bit of threaded bar, two captive nuts, and a cup at the top connected to the coil.

Wind knob at bottom, reflux moves at the top.

The condenser has to be lowered to get full reflux and equalise the column and raised to let vapour through to your product condenser

Mash wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:27 pm First off. Why are you raising and lowering it. I have missed something.

Fix idea. A long bit of threaded bar, two captive nuts, and a cup at the top connected to the coil.

Wind knob at bottom, reflux moves at the top.

As Bob says, the coil needs to be raised/lowered to control reflux.
In a CCVM (Condenser controlled vapour management) still, the reflux condenser in the open spool at the top is basically a valve. So all the way down = full reflux, all the vapour hits the coil, condenses and runs back into the packing and nothing gets past into the tee section, the higher the coil is raised, the more vapour allowed past and into the tee, so increasing the output just like a valve.

A guy over on home distiller came up with a great way to motorise the coil using a stepper motor Bob.

I've not been on that site for yonks Moose, I'll check it out. I won't be going to those lengths though, I only do a reflux run 3 or 4 times per annum . I'll have a think about it, necessity is the mother of invention and all that eh

buffalobob wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:29 am I've not been on that site for yonks Moose, I'll check it out. I won't be going to those lengths though, I only do a reflux run 3 or 4 times per annum . I'll have a think about it, necessity is the mother of invention and all that eh

Yeah same, a boiler full gives me c. 2 gals at 95% so I only need a couple neutral runs a year.

I hold my coil in place with a bent bit of flat copper between the winds.
Very non technical, but I only have to move it 3 times in 6-8hrs, so anything I do will be over engineering it in my book! Haha

"Where I am today"....that's a question and a half for most of us. I know of one member out there who is in a very dark place at this time. I've not been available over the last two weeks due to being rushed to the University Hospital Coventry on the last day of Sep with COVID-19.

Slapped into isolation for 10 days or so, it's all a little blurry, the worst part was knowing Mrs Ice also had caught covid and was left all on her own.

So..."Where I am today"???...now back home where I should be, Mrs Ice did a test yesterday that came back negative, but my test still shows positive...but we'll get there.

All the best to all out there in stilling land, stay safe, wear a mask don't take any chances it is too easy to be blasé.


Ice.

Well done. Look after each other, it is a lonely place, this earth, without friends and family.

I hope you both recover completely. I think I have avoided the worst of Covid by not allowing my blood blood level to become too high.

Regards Trevor and family.

Ice it will take more than a drop of covid to knock you over mate.
All the best to Mrs Ice.

buffalobob wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:55 pm The condenser has to be lowered to get full reflux and equalise the column and raised to let vapour through to your product condenser

Every day is a school day. I had completely missed that. Thanks guys.

And I do like the bit of wood idea MM. If it rectangular, you get 2 settings

You and your other half will be up and at em before you know it ice, wishing you both all the best.
I've seen other brewists use the flat bit of copper technique Moose, simple and effective

Icefever wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:23 am "Where I am today"....that's a question and a half for most of us. I know of one member out there who is in a very dark place at this time. I've not been available over the last two weeks due to being rushed to the University Hospital Coventry on the last day of Sep with COVID-19.

Slapped into isolation for 10 days or so, it's all a little blurry, the worst part was knowing Mrs Ice also had caught covid and was left all on her own.

So..."Where I am today"???...now back home where I should be, Mrs Ice did a test yesterday that came back negative, but my test still shows positive...but we'll get there.

All the best to all out there in stilling land, stay safe, wear a mask don't take any chances it is too easy to be blasé.


Ice.

Keep grinning bud, it will be Christmas before you know it

Yes, Friday the thirteenth in the occult month and Mash has written the C word out completely. My Pc and iPad would have warned me of a spelling F*** Up at any date before late November. No protocols on this Blooody site at all......,

Well in that case, my compliments to everyone in this season. X

"Christmas" has got to be a terrible name for a dog.

Up there with "taxi"

Just a quick thanks to everyone, we're on the mend....slow as it is.

Ice.

We have a cat, his overall covering is light grey in colour, rather like smoke. When thinking of a name for him I considered and then decided upon the name 'Puff'. My wife agreed for a time, about 2 days.......

She then became aware that when calling him, .....here Puff, Puff, Puff said repeatedly indispursed with loud kisses to gain his attention would soon be vocalised loadly outside. She insisted I changed his name. I have no idea why!

Our cat is now called 'Puddles' or Pud Puds.

I knew a lad who lived on an estate in the west riding who had a black lab called Abdul. His family were the only English family on the street, everyone else was Asian, I don't think he made any friends there .

A friend of mine had a Dog, it was mainly brown with patches of black and a small
white spot on the end of its snout. They called it Croydon.

gaza the instructor wrote: Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:08 am A friend of mine had a Dog, it was mainly brown with patches of black and a small
white spot on the end of its snout. They called it Croydon.

I've stolen that and tweeted it!

Does any one have an unloved pet called Slough?

My friend has a black spaniel called Winston. But he sais it differently.

Welsh I didn't know there was anything lower than Croydon, but Slough
best forgotten about.

My daughter has a very large spider living in the downstairs bog, it's call Jesus cos that's what everyone says when it comes out

We called the dog "Iron Monger" because every time you kicked him up the arse,
he made a bolt for the door.

You know where the coach stops, it is leaving shortly......

I still work, over 60 years old now. Habit really, want to put £3k a month into family coffers, yes habit. I am not saying that's a lot, just habit. I do 3 occupations each month for that, work in a multi National Assembly factory as an operative, easy for me, I can fall asleep doing it, allows me to think. Working within arbitration/resolution disputes between Plc developers and home owners & helping in a charity minding over vulnaruble adults.

Today, finished working with Eastern Europeans building 36v mitre saws. Then, into Ironbridge, grocery etc. Stood listening to a street musician playing the harmonica. I have been practicing playing the harmonica for 2 years. Now I have some conviction to be able to do it. I stood there today remembering being in a Jaz bar in Hamburg near the Alstar lake listening to Tootes Thielemans playing Midlight Cowboy. What mesmerised me was the bass player Heini Van De - someone -Gen? Absolutely brilliant. I am going to learn the harmonica to play Midnight Cowboy. So at 60 years old, I have 30 years to learn, compared to Tootes.

You are never too old, frequently too young, then you don't appreciate that tomorrow, well tomorrow never dawns. Realised that today. Bucket lists should have been done already. If you are writing them you are too late

Where I am today, already planning living tomorrow, if I leave you all now/tonight, some fucker owes me......

Lol at the last sentence.

Harmonica eh. I have tried to learn piano, guitar and banjo, never really got there... And the harmonica has always twinkled at me, but I think it might have to stay that way...