Yttrium2 - 31-5-2021 at 04:39
Which is better and suggestions appreciated.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/333996010384?hash=item4dc3b6ab90:g:...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/114640170252?hash=item1ab1162d0c:g:...
karlos³ - 31-5-2021 at 06:28
The more expensive one seems to have a better cooling, and of course, 30l volume more.
Guess it depends on what you plan to do with it.
Yttrium2 - 31-5-2021 at 15:51
Essential oil distillation
Seems like the more expensive larger cap is a stock pot with some fittings, can’t really tell, and don’t know if it matter
karlos³ - 31-5-2021 at 16:18
If you want to, based on your last posts, steam distill sassafras oil or such from the plant matter, then you can and should do that in normal
glassware, you don't require such a huge apparatus which is so costly.
You should look at the vespiary, there is a whole report from roots to the end product, and he uses a 2l flask to steam distill the oil from the
rootbark, 5x distillation rounds, 320ml of oil over those five runs, from 10kg of fresh roots, peeled, only the bark of that amount used.
Thats very much.
A 10l flask would have done that in one run of course, but before you think about such a huge investion, think first if this is appropriate.
Because those huge things are for really massive quantities, like a few gallons of homebrewed mash or such.
And first you need to acquire appropriate amounts of those roots.... thats a whole lot of work 
As we usually tell you, buy just a normal distillation kit.
Then you can also buy a huge flask for such things with the right joint size, and you are at a fraction of those huge and expensive apparatus, but can
do essentially the same.
Yttrium2 - 31-5-2021 at 20:09
I doubt there is such a post on the vespiary
It takes a lot of plant material for a little oil
Your post seems erroneous
Texium - 1-6-2021 at 05:34
You’re hopeless
karlos³ - 1-6-2021 at 05:41
Check publications, Tom goes from root to crystals, believe it or not.
But I second Texium: you're hopeless.
You will probably never distill anything, and this makes me sad 
karlos³ - 1-6-2021 at 09:12
Here, you lazy sloth! 
https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=15046.0
You seem erroneous yourself 
Definitely not a good noodle
[Edited on 1-6-2021 by karlos³]