well we have completed final revision of the design, and parts are starting to arrive.
we've found some interesting ways of building the column so it will be high quality, but keeping the price as affordable as possible.
we've decided to manufacture the column in sections of 10 plates. a 10 plate section is 1 meter long (or high)
the idea being that someone can order their still with 1 through 10 plates (4 would probably be most common)
or if you wanted a 20 plate vodka still, you could attach 2- 10 plate sections or even have a secondary external 10 plate section for neutral runs.
we're working on a waterbath/glycol heating setup, which will probably follow some time after our first run of stills.
Because of the response we've had, we've decided to up out initial run of 10 stills to 20.
We've set a goal of 100 units for the 30 gallon boilers, once we reach that we're going to push hard to produce some larger sized units, next logical step would be 60 gallons. When we begin on the 120 gallon units, we'll have to look at larger sized columns. the math works for our current column design with a 60 gallon boiler, but we'll have to look at increasing to a 6" column for the 120, need to do some calculations and computer modeling to see if it would be better to skip right to 8" to handle even larger sized boiler.