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Arismac go for it, if I used coppermesh I would try stuff before saying it wouldn’t work.

If you run a T500 I think that the community would and I certainly would suggest, using copper mesh in the column. There is a huge increase of copper area when using the mesh as compared to the copper saddles. In fact there is more copper surface available to convert sulphur vapour to copper sulphate when using the mesh, than is available in a T500 alembic copper dome.

The Stig wrote:Our mate on here Ned put me into using the TPW backset to clean the copper.

I tried this yesterday and it worked a lot better than what I thought it would. It was a bit of a pain cleaning backset out of copper mesh but saved me doing a citric acid clean on my copper before my spirit run.

I have just taken delivery of 5 kg of citric acid which cost $34.17 or $0.69 per 100 grm delivered.

Beats the daylights out of Mckenzies at $2.40 for 75 grm or $3.20 for 100 grm.

As promised ... how to weely, weely get copper mesh clean. The citric acid, as per the previous post is perfect but this is the scientific method.

Obtain a 16cm Inspire Non-stick 16cm Saucepan With Lid at Woolies or wherever.
Place rolled copper mesh in saucepan and cover with water
Add 50 gram citric acid.
Heat and hold between 75 and 90 degrees for at least four hours. Very Important don't boil. A lower temperature will not clean properly
Add 50 gram sea salt remove from heat and leave to cool
Rinse well under running water.

A final note. When you lift the lid you should be able to smell the sulphur vapor. If not
a) too cold sulphur is not being stripped from copper
b) too hot sulphur is being permanently fixed to copper.