syphon elbow, no flow, trickle

AndyHomebrewer · Jul 9, 2011

I purchased a NB false bottom with stainless elbow, and hooked it up with a compression fitting to a Williams weldless kettle valve. However, I am not getting much more than a trickle out of the fully opened valve. I did not use tephlon tape, but just wrench tite. Any suggestions?

I wanted to test my double march pump in a box, but I could not get enough flow into the pump head.

bucfanmike · Jul 9, 2011

do you have a sufficient amount of water in the pot to get the flow started? Even if it were sucking air the water should flow until it hit the bulkhead as long as that area was completely covered.

Bobby_M · Jul 9, 2011

Without a picture of the setup, it's hard to diagnose. Is the siphon tube sitting flush to the bottom of the vessel closing off the flow?

oakbarn · Dec 25, 2011

We had this problem on our mash tun. Finally found that the tolerance is too close between the bottom of the pot and the pick up tube causing no flow to poor flow. Turned the pick up tube off 90 degrees and that solved the problem.

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