Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hi all,

I'm looking at building a still to upgrade from my little air still.

Looking at making it a modular boka/pot style in 2 inch size.

So my idea is from my boiler (looking like a milk can build from 5star with 1 2400W element, maybe a second, more questions later) 4-2 inch reducer to approximately 1.5mt length before the double reducer boka head whuch will be attached with tri-clamp.

Im having some trouble with finding what length for the reducer, ive seen some that look a couple of inches long, while others look very minimal. What length should I be aiming for?

Next question, length of pipe into the upper reducer making the "collection cup". My understanding would be smaller size = more reflux but would then reduce the output speed ability. Is this correct? What would be a good height here?

I am looking at a coil of about 300mm long, would this be a good size? Smaller/bigger??

Pot still side, looking at 2x 90 bends then down into a shotgun condenser at about 500mm long with 5x 1/2 inner tubes.

Thermometer, would locating it in the initial vertical column just under the tri-clamp be a suitable position to use it in both modes?

I hopefully attached a pic of what im thinking to help.

Any info and help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Have you considered a ccvm or hybrid?
If your getting a shotgun anyways, the ccvm generally has a better output rate vs better compression from the lm. With the addition of a T above the Boka cups, you could run both ways, using the LM (boka) for fores n heads and VM for hearts

Shorter is better when there is a ceiling involved (barring the packed section)

I have tried wrapping my head around how they work and things just arnt clicking in my head with the operation of them, where as the boka and pot i think i have the hows and whys sorted out ish.

Read this?

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Sam. wrote:Read this?

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=3117

I have read this a few times trying to wrap my head around it but im not there. Maybe in the future and something I can play around with

When i was looking at different stillsi came across this guys channel, awesome info and he built his own ccvm and it might explain more for you.

https://youtu.be/_IAIA_kQEgs

Shaun wrote:When i was looking at different stillsi came across this guys channel, awesome info and he built his own ccvm and it might explain more for you.

https://youtu.be/_IAIA_kQEgs

Don’t think I would go with awesome content but at least he isn’t dangerous....

Sam. wrote:

Shaun wrote:When i was looking at different stillsi came across this guys channel, awesome info and he built his own ccvm and it might explain more for you.

https://youtu.be/_IAIA_kQEgs

Don’t think I would go with awesome content but at least he isn’t dangerous....

I find the way he explains things is nice and simple, maybe because he was a newbie at the start of his channel.

He doesn't profess to be an expert at least. I haven't watched much of his videos though. I liked his experiment on smearing through a parrot even if there were issues with how it was performed.