In Germany, is a stainless braid 'manifold' called "Lauter Hosen" ?
Anyways, I just brewed my first batch with a strainless braid. Simple mater to cold chisel the ends off- I couldn't find my tin snips. Plastic liner slid right out. Copper electric wire to crimp the far end, and hose clamp a piece of copper tube and a small rubber stopper made it fit my bottling bucket spigot internally. I used about a foot of copper tube with the far end bent 90 degrees, so it can't come loose while sparging. To install, slip the stopper up the tube a ways, slide the end into the spigot, lower the far end with the lauterhosen - the far end will butt against the far far side of the bucket, then slide the stopper down the tubing into the spigot. So I still have a virgin ice chest / mash tun.