Cleaning Crud out of your blowoff tubing

[berwick12]

What is the best way to do it?

 

[Chris_Dog]

A couple hour soak in PBC or Oxiclean usually does it for me... and then rinse with HOT water (both directions)

 

[sigmund]

See a urologist?

I soak mine in some PBW and rinse. That stuff will clean your crud issues right up.

 

[McKBrew]

Another thing that helps for some of the really stuck on crud...

If you have a jet bottle washer, wad up a piece of paper towel that fits tightly in the tube. Use the water pressure to push the piece through the length of tubing a few times, to remove the gunk.

 

[Chris_Dog]

A piece of sponge on a string works pretty good too but usually the soak and rinse works.

 

[SSRider]

I soak it for a bit in water then use my carboy brush to clean it out.

 

[MSUConrad]

I straightened out a carboy brush. Stick it in one end and twist as you pull it out. Repeat on the other side. Then rinse it out. Works great a no soaking (as long as you do it right away, let it sit and it's concrete!)

 

[bendavanza]

My carboy brush was too thick, so I cut back the bristles with some kitchen scissors. It is still real tight but it gets all that crud loose so it will rinse away with hot water.
cheers

 

[jds]

New tubing.

It's cheap at HD, and I'd rather replace it than spend an hour trying to clean out a cememted-on hop leaf.

 

[Zymurgrafi]

They do make a brush for just about everything ya know.

What size blow off are you using? 1" ID or standard racking size tubing 3/8" ID?

If you rinse it right away it should come clean easily, i.e. do not let it dry out.

If it is pretty nasty, I agree wit the above. Chuck it and get a new one.

 

[berwick12]

Cleaned it out pretty well. The advise helped, but I really wasn't specific in the first post. After soaking in PBW a white haze forms on the inside of the tubing should I be worried about that?

 

[MoRoToRiUm]

PBW typically will do this; You can clean it with some starsan or a weak vinegar/water solution (Just make sure you rinse it well if you do the vinegar route).