Not sure if anyone else has done this, just I just found that the chinese RE series roto recovery ports can be attatched to a 2" triclamp fitting with very, very little effort.
broke my flask just now, and love finding solutions to problems quickly- this seems rather useful- triclamps are my legos now.
Put a T on your feed line and when you want to empty it just turn the valve or use the same feed line and have it hooked to a pump as lonf as your feed hose goes all the way to the bottom
Get gamma buckets for survival and cut a whole in the top tou can get 30 gallon buckets so you will only have to put the hose in another bucket when it’s full
@Rowan How do you tell the keg (fantastic idea btw!) is full? Is there a cold-trap before the pump?
(We get 20 liters/hour recovery on all three of our 50 liter Rotos. @spdking. Just saying)
I don’t run a cold trap anymore, just make sure the upper condenser isn’t dripping - the half liter of ethanol I lose every other day or so if I’m being aggressive with evap is not a big deal to me rn.
I can tell when the keg is full after I put 15 gal through the unit. I can have my fab guy put a sight glass port on the top but as of now have not had any issues paying attention to how much ethanol goes in.
just had it overfill on me for the first time just now actually… super not a big deal, closed the valve (dernord off of amazon are great 2" ball valves, holds the vac well) and put a fresh clean towel under the clamp… towel goes into the centrifuge and I get my booze back. easy.