I've seen a lot of posts about broken autosiphons and frustration when attempting to manually start a siphon. So, here's a short video I put together this morning:
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Not that tough at all. Hold the ends of the tubing even with one another, and use a small funnel.It's a real pain to get the tube full of water...
Not that tough at all. Hold the ends of the tubing even with one another, and use a small funnel.
FYI: I've never owned an autosiphon.
Oddly enough, IMO the autosiphon is a "workaround!"I'm not knocking the workarounds
I'd like to invite anyone with autosiphon problems to just send them to me. I'm not knocking the workarounds but the A/S is awesome and multifunctional. It doesn't require ditching the first bit of runoff. You can use it to pump yeast slurry into your ball jar in a sanitary manner.
I have used the baster start when racking out of the big barrel though since there's no autosiphon long enough for that.
I like the video though. Everyone should know how to start a sanitary siphon. One other trick you can use if you are not using a racking can is to push an extra foot or so of tubing into the donor vessel, put your thumb over the end, then pull out the tubing until there's liquid in the output hose.
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