Aeration Question

[MoronBrothersBrewery]

Hey guys,
Got an aeration question: When using those red O2 tanks you buy at home improvement stores, along with a regulator, a 2' micron air stone, and some tubing, do you still need an SS aeration wand? Or can you just use some small clamps to fasten the stone to the tubing? $35 bucks seems like a lot for a SS wand. Thanks!

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[day_trippr]

My O2 rig runs tubing from the regulator to a ~2 foot piece of acrylic racking cane to a short piece of tubing to the barbed end of a .5 micron sintered SS stone. The cane keeps the stone on the bottom of the carboy - and lets me swirl the wort while the O2 infuses into it. Without the cane I'm pretty sure the O2-filled tubing would cause the stone to float up, perhaps even to the top of the wort, as the stone doesn't weigh much...

Cheers!

[edit] ps, no clamps used, all the connections are just jammed together. I run @ .5 LPM (med grade flow meter) and so far haven't had any pieces pop off into the bottom of a carboy - yet

 

[MoronBrothersBrewery]

Ah-ha! Now we're talking. Thanks!

 

[TheSlash]

Wish I saw this before I purchased the ss stick for $35 lol. Biggest thing is having the stone on something solid so you can swirl it around and not have it just float to the top.

 

[eastoak]

i like the one piece stainless wand because i can sterilize it in a flame. the multiple plastic connections were a bit more work to sanitize.

 

[S0meB0dy]

I use tubing between the stone and regulator, no clamps. No issues with floating either. Save your money for something else.

 

[Hang Glider]

^ this.

I drop it into the carboy for 1 minute prior to pitching yeast.