Packing

[Leatherman]

Thanks Easydrinker!

[myles]

Hum? now I've seen plenty of picture of "torpedo's" in various selling sites and pics of peoples column configuration but I can't find much that explains what they actually do and how they work.

Packed ? or not ? Maybe just an "expansion chamber" so there's a greater concentration of vapour to rise up through to packing/plates/whatever ?

Most are intended for 1 plate, either perforated or bubble cap.

This is mine. Made deliberately with a deep bath on the plate. The central tube is an overflow into the boiler that has a hanging cup vapour lock.

plate in LM.png

I wanted to catch the liquid falling out of the column and re-distill some of it, instead of just allowing it to fall directly into the boiler where it would get diluted.