My auto-siphon has jumped out of the receiver twice now and sprayed my legs with beer while pumping the last lil bit from the carboy. (made me mad)
I made this today, a drilled stopper with a "smaller" air hole, T-boned so I can stick a 1/4" nytube in the side and "blow on it" to pressurize the carboy.
I modeled the end of the UHMW plastic after the diameter of a rubber stopper I had and put a slight slope on it. UHMW can be cut on a wood lathe, or a metal lathe, or chucked into a drill press and whittled on. It likes a wood cutting tool best.
To get the pvc tube through it? SPlit the tube for a few inches, thread the smaller slit portion through the stopper, then cut it off. TO keep it "stiff" in the jug, I slip a 316 stainless tig welding "rod (wire)" up into it so I can form it into a shape to go against a wall of the jug.
Needs a while in a cup of bleach, then I think it can be star-sanitized.
I made this today, a drilled stopper with a "smaller" air hole, T-boned so I can stick a 1/4" nytube in the side and "blow on it" to pressurize the carboy.
I modeled the end of the UHMW plastic after the diameter of a rubber stopper I had and put a slight slope on it. UHMW can be cut on a wood lathe, or a metal lathe, or chucked into a drill press and whittled on. It likes a wood cutting tool best.
To get the pvc tube through it? SPlit the tube for a few inches, thread the smaller slit portion through the stopper, then cut it off. TO keep it "stiff" in the jug, I slip a 316 stainless tig welding "rod (wire)" up into it so I can form it into a shape to go against a wall of the jug.
Needs a while in a cup of bleach, then I think it can be star-sanitized.
