Is anyone operating a homemade or pieced together vacuum pot still for ethanol recovery? If so how are you agitating or mixing your boiling flask/vessel and is it needed?
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When working under vacuum a form of agitation is needed
Building a magnetic mixer is quit easy for stills up to 150L yust a slow rotating electromotor and Some powerfull magnets
I have build several and there is one i still have to finish try to take Some pics
I started a tread a while back Where @cyclopath recomended a vacuum overhead stirrer also a great option
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Yes on a small vac still take a glass purge chamber and build a mag stir out of a box fan! Take a wort chiller submerged in dry ice acetone slurry and a cold trap before the pump got it made
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