Mine came well packed with nothing broken and no complaints. The oil burner might work for distilling from alcohol I've yet to check but for water it pretty much stopped at like 96c even though I had wrapped it all in foil. I eventually noticed it go past 100c randomly so I took the foil off and the paper the bottom of the flask sits on somehow was on fire so at that point I called it a night. I had a slight issue getting a solid seal from boiling flask to condenser but once you tweak everything and maybe buy a jack stand and hot plate stirrer I think it will be a good set. I'd say it was a good buy and my plan was making tinctures and using it to distill some weed oils after they come out of the soxhlet till I can afford a bigger vaccum triple distilller type setup which are all a lot more then this one so for now this will be the one. Also it's good to have a way to distill water with the things happening in the world. Never know when you have to whip the lab equipment out for a glass of drinkable water.