All deflections used in moonshine can be conditionally divided into two large classes: film and all others. The principal difference lies in the fact that in the classic film design there are no additional elements: phlegm is condensed on the walls of the vertical tube and it is also rebuilt from it. The main advantage is the simplicity of construction, the manufacture of which is possible with their own hands, the main disadvantage is the interaction of phlegm with the peripheral region of the steam stream, and not from the central.
"All others" are deflectors, in which various elements are introduced into the inner cavity: fillers with a developed surface area (plates, glass balls, etc.) from an inert material. Due to them, the effectiveness of the interaction of steam with phlegm increases, and the overall dimensions of the device are reduced. We list only some types of deflements:
- Leschatel;
- Bunzen;
- christmas tree;
- hands;
- Dimrot, etc.
By the ratio of product quality / dimensions / ease of manufacture / convenience of adjusting the mode of operation - practicality, if one word, preference is given to the design of the dimroid.
Some ways of making simple deflements
- Upgraded drill. Strictly speaking, even a self-configuration - an armhire from a glass jar, some of the features of the deflectman still performs. But only some, and only if we say "very strictly." So that it turns into an elementary uncontrollable deflector, the design and its placement must be changed. It is done easily and with your own hands.
- In the upper part there remains only one outlet.
- The housing is made of fine metal.
- A metal tube is added to the bottom, which is then connected to the lid.
- This design establishes, unlike the classic height, not on the side, but above the distillation capacity with the source mixture.
As a result, the phlegm housing condensed on the walls, flows around the tube back to the tank, meets with the newly formed steam, partially rebuilt and enters the selection. The fortress and purity of the product is slightly, but rising.
- Deflegmator with your own hands from two tubes - The simplest film. From the outside of a large tube at the ends in the walls, two nozzles are boiled. Ligger diameter tube is inserted into large. Ends are brewed so that the cavity (shirt) is formed between them. The whole design is connected to the hole in the lid of the distillation cube. Cold water circulates in the resulting shirt.
Couples from a container rises inside the tube, condensed on its cold walls and flows back to the container. When interacting with the counterflow of the steam, the reflection of phlegm and separation of it on the fraction occurs. Adjusting the intensity of cooling, all components are sequentially separated from the initial raw material, starting with the low-temperature component.
- Deflegmator Dimrota. Two tubes. One of them serves as a housing, a spiral collapses from the second in such a way that it enters the body with a small gap. The design is installed on the lid of the distillation container, water circulates along the spiral tube. Unlike the film design, the condensation and the reeverance of phlegm occurs on the surface of the spiral.
Separately consider a reflux, which, with the availability of its manufacture at home, gives a very good result on the final product.
Deflegmator made of metal thermos
The basis of this design will be a thermos with a volume of 0.5-1 liters. Let's proceed.
- We disassemble the thermos, that is, we remove the bottom, so as not to damage the flask itself. To do this, we clean the platform on the bottom and solder the metal bracket. We screw the wire or steel cable to the bracket. The second end of the wire is reliably fixing and strongly pulling the thermos on yourself. The bottom should be held from the thermos flasks. To facilitate the process, you can pre-warm it with a burner.
- Next, you need to run the edge, according to which there is a compound of partition with an external flask in such a way that an almost indistinguishable uniform gap appears throughout the circumference. To take advantage of this is the best drill with a nozzle or, if there is access, emery machine. After this, the thermos partition is easily separated from the external flask.
- In order to remove the inner part of the flask, it is also necessary to neatly strain the rib on the neck of the thermos. As a result, the inner part is easily removed from the external one.
- In the bottom of the inner flask, the hole drills, we insert the tube to communicate with the atmosphere and we affect the connection location.
- In the wall of the outer flask at the top and below we cut and peck two nozzles for organizing cooling water circulation. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the ends of these tubes performed inward the flasks at a distance of a smaller amount of the gap between the flasks.
- We collect the flask: carefully disappear the gaps made earlier, drill the hole in the bottom and the partition under the tube and put them in place.
In principle, our deflectman made with their own hands, in terms of the thermos itself, ready. Its working position on the moonshine harrow down. But it does not yet have the most important node, because of which everything is stood: the selection node of the finished product.
Node selection
It will be connected to the neck of the thermos. Schematically, its design and position in the moonshine is shown in the figure below.
Deflegmator work scheme
It is made of a pipe cut with two adapters: the top to the neck of the thermosos, the bottom to the tube connecting the deflexer with distilted cube. Inside the tube, a wide washer is boiled with a low side (8-10 mm) along the edge of the central opening. If there is a skill, then with the installation of the washer you can cope with your own hands, if not, then contact the workshop. Slightly above the bottom formed along the wall of the punch of the bowl, the hole is drilled for the nozzle, which will be published a finished product.
The diagram does not show, but for accurate adjustment of the operation mode of the device, a thermometer is needed or a temperature sensor. To install it, just above the top side of the washer in the pipe wall, the hole under the sleeve for setting the thermometer is drilled.
So, the reflux is assembled. It can be connected through the tube (from 50-80 cm long) to the lid of the distillation container and start receiving the finished product. But if we want to get really high-quality alcohol, then you should think about replacing the tube a full distillation column.
