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Description: 8" x 60" tube bundle evap w/ 3/8" tubes
Price/MSRP: $2,500 opening bid eBay
Current location of item: Lynchburg, VA
Can load on semi and ship anywhere in the world. $180,000 new, opening bid $2,500, totally refurbished with new composite PTFE/Viton gaskets. NO RESERVE.
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The cyclone on this thing alone is worth the opening bid. It’s 12" diameter TC, 4" vapor outlet, 1.5" TC oil outlet.
I dropped opening bid. I want this sold ASAP it’s taking up room. Part it out for 5x if you want.
that cyclone is maybe 500$ at most…
A 12’ x 12" TC spool alone is $300. as just a short raw tube. No cyclone, no engineering, no welding, no testing.
Fabricating and assembling equipment of this size and precision is pretty involved, so I’ll keep it to the topic and entertain us alI.
The lid: Ever turned a 12" SS flat lid on a lathe for a perfect slip fit of 4" tube before welding with vernier depth placement? Shop time on a lathe this large is $150/hr and it takes an hour.
12" HP clamps? $130/ each. x2
12" composite gaaskets? $40/each x2
Concentric reducers of the right pitch and sizing? $600
4" inlet and outlet tubes. Custom cut, perfect concentric welding… on and on and on.
Artfully crafted and polished laminar inlets, process engineering and hours of certified welding and you’re over $3,500 for the cyclone alone, my man. This is serious hardware.
12x12" spools 100-180usd "a few on ebay as well as HFS for this price. yes I have fabricated spools and lids before. clamps are generally 50-80usd depending on china or usa, concentric recuders depending on size 80-200usd… your price are so high and not reflective of the product are you doing the welding your self?
there is nothing custom about this from what I can see just standard sanitary parts you can get almost anywhere now… if you chose to fabricated instead of already sourcing parts this is probably why your cost was so high. but still cant see this for more than 5K usd brand new… no jacketed parts no custom fittings,pumps ect. that stand is the only thing fabricated from what I can tell everything else looks shelf stocked. was there a brand for this extractor or model #?
if you’re not interested please move on, don’t waste your energy. There is no such thing as a stock laminar flow sanitary cyclone from china for $180. Onward.
never said I wasn’t interested just not interested in overpaying for standard parts put togeather like Legos … is there a brand or model #? year?
publicly criticizing something in an attempt to reduce its value for your own gain is a disgusting erosion of morality.
what is overcharging to increase its value for your own gain then if not disgusting erosion of morality?
your on a public forum and like most these resellers trying to charge 10-100x of the items value which generally consists of standard sanitary parts put together like Legos. like are you fucking kidding me please try and justify this since you want to talk about morality. still waiting to see were this was 180k+… if it really was Id buy it since its a tax write off but without proof of 180k value its um standard sanitary fittings assembled in an apparatus…
Hey, am I missing something, or is this just the hot/evap/solute side of the FFE? Where is the cold/condense/solvent side of things on this?
so if you look at the first picture you can see they have 3 units side by side and
they appear to only be designed to have a hot side and most likely using the cyclone as cooling ultimately very inefficient or ya halfs missing…
engineered for ganged flate plate condensers not in pics. This unit is sold without condenser.
Do you know the total sq/ft or sq/m of evaporation space for the primary tube and shell evaporator column? How much additional evaporation space is provided by the cyclone piece?
Kind of important to know how much is going to be required on the condensation side. I mean I could just try to match it to a similar sized tube and shell, but you said it’s engineered for flat plate exchangers. What size and how many?
evap area of tube/shell is 110 ft², the surface area downstream including cyclone is negligible from a surface area perspective, perhaps a few more square feet. In general, total condenser area sized 2-3x evap side, some leeway depending on chilling eg continuous well water vs huge chiller.
I suppose surface area of 6" tee, 12" cyclone and 4" downtube is equivalent to 3-4 50L rotos though.
