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greg2536

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OK, here is something that probably should be obvious but I can't seem to do it. How do you keep your tubes clean between brewings? The vinyl tubes I use to transfer from primary to 2ndary I rinse well after but there is always some water left in them and I noticed some mold in them this time. Needless to say I had to replace them. So how do I prevent this in the future? :drunk:
 
I also whip mine around by holding in the middle kinda like a one handed jump rope action. It makes the water mostly fly out so there's not so much that has to drip out or evaporate.
 
I had the same problem with my tubes, but I always rinse them in star san before putting them away, so I never got any mold. Then I started immediately hanging them up so the tubes hang straight down, and they're dry 1/2 hour. Of course, I live in Montana where the humidity is around 26%.
 
You could always store them in a bucket of StarSan. No mold gonna grow in there.
 
I pour a little vodka in mine, and move it back and forth until all of the inside of the tube is covered and sanitized. Then hang it up to drain.
 
Bobby_M said:
I also whip mine around by holding in the middle kinda like a one handed jump rope action. It makes the water mostly fly out so there's not so much that has to drip out or evaporate.
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Nice to see someone else uses the "Indiana Jones" method of hose drying!!!

:cross:
 
In addition to all that great advice, if you have a keg laying around charged up to 30psi, well, that's enough to blow dry a tube. Three of them actually.
 
Poindexter said:
In addition to all that great advice, if you have a keg laying around charged up to 30psi, well, that's enough to blow dry a tube. Three of them actually.
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On that note, if you have an air compressor, it works really well to dry out tubing.
 

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