I posted a picture of my system like two weeks ago. Scroll up a little and you should see it.
Well, I antiqued a 6ft radius and myself completely yesterday. After my run i started breaking shit down. Blew off the little pressure from the column and then shut the fucking valve. I was remediating slabs luckily. Wanting the crc off first I took the tri clamp off and ive alwsys used the first side of the clamp that comes off to lightly tap the other side loose if need be. Just as I did that there was light, and i mean ever so light, Puff. And like that kid from The Sandlot vacuum cleaner scene, I was dusted head to toe. I don’t normally make mistakes like this. But I had a friend take his life Wednesday night and I was trying to get done off to a memorial for him. I never work distracted or in a bad mood. This is what happens if your not 100% focused
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Sir I would normally chucle when mistakes like these happen and no one got hurt
But in this case I am glad you shared
And. Hope all works out
Sorry to hear from your friend 
Godspeef
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I preach to physically and visually verify a valve is open on any vessel a triclamp is being removed from. Man oh man. I also tell people people to walk away if theyre tired or sick or in a bad mood or fighting with their home life, anything. Yet here I am trying to sneak any amount of extra time i have, in at the lab working. Like today for instance lol. Snuck away for 4hrs while mom and kids ran errands. Oops.
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yes I want to set up a crc for my system.
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Your system have compression fittings or jic fittings?
JIC fitting
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I have 2 systems in one. I have a 24” horizontal purge tank for crude and I have 12” horizontal purge tank for fresh frozen wax.
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Geez that’s awesome!!!
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Damn, now that’s clean. What a vert for FF wax and horizontal for crude?
What is the purpose of all those horizontal fittings along the sides of the columns?
Thats just how you link the tubes together for injection.
What im curious about is how he mounted the columns on the uni strut… I dont see any clamps holding them on.
So that system injects butane at all those points then allows them to drain into the large horizontal canister correct?
I’m assuming the advantage of injecting at several points is about saturating the material fast and thus exposing it to the solvent at its coldest because the solvent warms as it travels down the column otherwise?
The alternative method would be to jacket the column instead and inject top down to try to prevent said warming. Is my mind taking that all in right?
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I was thi King the same thing. Looks like magnets. 
Its still a top down inject. Solvent line comes up to Tube #1, Tee’s off into the lid and then to tube two, tee’s off to tube 3, etc.
Then the bottom hoses all feed into a manifold onto the the big chamber to dump.
Yes, this is a very quick inject method.
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Shit never mind me. I somehow missed the big pic. That’s where all his different columns drain into those two columns just to drain into the horizontal tank.
It looks to me like his jackets on his material columns have bolts coming out he used to mount to those cross members. You can see a bolt meant for a third cross member still sticking out of each column’s jacket.
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Now that I look at it, looks like theres some metal tabs welded onto the tubes. I think bhogart does that for their pilot systems.
Looks like a few filter stacks might fit well underneath the two collection canisters just before the horizontal tank.
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