Labs use a glass condenser tube consisting of a flow through chamber for
the vapors and a water jacket to run cold water through.
I bought one new like this
http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/82000055/images/38/106417-1.jpg
for $15 a couple of years back, so "shopping" is a to do thing to avoid
paying up to $300.
http://store.cdnsystems.com/Items/106417?&caSKU=106417&caTitle=500MM%20Lab%20West%20Glass%20Condenser%2035/25%2023%22
http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/82000055/images/38/106417-1.jpg
500MM Lab West Glass Condenser 35/25 23"
Price: $35.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-way-Vigreux-distillation-head-24-40-300mm-new_W0QQitemZ370039028267QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item370039028267&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
http://cgi.ebay.com/PYREX-2540-COIL-TYPE-CONDENSER-19-38-DISTILLATION-GLASS_W0QQitemZ250231755409QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250231755409&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
Or take a length of glass or stainless tubing, some PVC pipe with end caps
drilled to take it, sealed with silicon caulk and an inlet and outlet for
the cooling water in the top and bottom of the jacket sides.
Cold Tap water can be trickled through and fill the toilet tank or kept hot
in an ice chest to keep for that next batch of dirty dishes.
An old pressure cooker has an outlet for steam ready made for some tubing.
Heat sources:
Hook it up to that cheap steam type home vaporizer ?
Something to do all winter while hanging about the wood stove?
Cardboard and aluminum foil sun concentrator?
Convert a double pane window into a still? [ever seen what happens when
the seal leaks? ] The bottom window could be the evaporator and the top
the condenser.
An aquarium with black bottom in the sun and glass top for high volume /
low temperature differential evaporation /condensation..area...big and warm
vs small and hot?
http://www.solaqua.com/solstilbas.html
A (fun) beach solar still. (No. JPs4g)
Items needed: A large and a small pop bottle, cloth, strands of cloth.
http://www.btinternet.com/~jhpart/bksolar1.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~jhpart/sola2.jpg
Ode
At 05:56 AM 6/28/2008 -0400, you wrote:
I have a stove top distiller. You will find that the steam will quickly
heat up your "condenser" collector and become a whole room steamer. Keeping
the collector cool is a challenge. The device I have uses another pot
filled with cold water as the collector. By the time you have distilled a
quart, the water in the cooling pot is hot.
Jim Meissner www.MeissnerResearch.com
-----Original Message-----
From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 3:27 PM
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: CS>Distiller Idea? Was: Waterwise Non-Electric Distiller
Silvia writes:
> Has anyone used this unit to make their distilled water?
> http://www.canningpantry.com/waterwise-1600.html If so what were the
> pros and cons?
That's an interesting item, Silvia. Too bad we don't have anybody with
experience with it. I'd be interested, too.
I'd recently thought about building some kind of stove-top distiller,
since natural gas is still relatively cheap and I could keep it running
on the stove most days. We're spending a buck a gallon for distilled
and go through 20 gallons a month or more.
I wonder if the 16 gallon stock pot with glass lid I saw at the store
the other day would be useful as a distiller? I could invert the domed
glass lid, moving the knob to the "wrong" side and put a collection
vessel inside on top of a wire grate or metal stand. The steam should
condense on the lid and run down into the collector.
There's a small vent hole in the lid. I expect at least some of the
volatiles would escape through the vent. If the collection vessel
overflows, no big deal. I'd want the collector to have a wire handle on
it, like the kind on a paint bucket, so I could lift it out with a hot
mitt and pour off the contents... maybe a teapot?
Hmmm... sounds like a $50 project versus a $350 product.
Comments or suggestions anyone?
Mike D.
[Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian]
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