Well, my Airstill is offically retired :handgestures-thumbupleft:
A massive big thanks to Sam who went a long way out of his way to help me out, really cannot express how much I appreciate it mate, thx.
2.2m total column height, 1.5m copper packed section
NASA Burner
So I am now running the 3inch VM/LM rig and did a cleaning run yesterday morning with water and vinegar, then fired it up last night for the first real test.
Charged it up with 24l of TPW and had it boiling in about 15 minutes, ran it at full reflux for nearly 30 minutes, then opened the LM side and ran off 250ml, which went straight into the cleaning bottle.
Opened the VM side and ran off 7 bottles of varying sizes...
1 - 200ml @95%
2 - 480ml @95%
3 - 490ml @95%
4 - 550ml @95%
5 - 540ml @ 95%
6 - 250ml @95%
7 - 245ml @85%
Temperature sat on a steady 78.6 for the whole run, until bottle 7 where the temp started to rise to about 82c and this is when I switched back to LM and ran it out til it hit 90c...(another 150ml)...then shut it down.
From turning the burner on until I shut it down was approx. 2h 5m.....so ran off approx 3 litres of spirit in 1h 20min..
I am very happy with the results of my first attempt....so thanks again to Sam.... and for all the great info on this site, which without, I would never have had the knowledge to do this.
Cheers,
Crispy