Im making moonshine but not for drinking for fuel. I know that its a bad idea to distill with plastic if your gonna drink it but will it be ok for fuel?
I wouldn't Plastic is made of hydrocarbons, and alcohol is a hydrocarbon - under the chemical principle of like dissolves like I would think the alcohol could leach chemicals in the plastic or dissolve it. If you leach extra chemicals it ruins yer shine!
if the plastic can withstand fairly constant temperatures around 180 degrees, then yes. the drawback is plasitc is not a very good heat conductor, and the tubing used in distlling is usually used to allow the hot alcohol to condense back into liquid. metal does this really well, and plastic is an insulator, so it will likely take MUCH more plastic tubing to cool the vapors.
