malenkylizards
Active Member
So I don't know about you guys but I've had a real hard time getting my siphon primed and flowing for the whole racking process...it almost always breaks at some point in the process, and I think it's largely because it starts out with some small bubble that grows over time.
I was having a particularly hard time with my last racking, I must've primed the siphon five or six times with no luck. I was about to start sucking, for lack of any better ideas, until I got a better idea. I had the cane in my top carboy and the hose in the bottom, and then took a small shopvac and held the hose over the bottom carboy. I turned it on for about two seconds, and right off. That stuff flew faster'n a greenhorn from a west texas rattler!
I was having a particularly hard time with my last racking, I must've primed the siphon five or six times with no luck. I was about to start sucking, for lack of any better ideas, until I got a better idea. I had the cane in my top carboy and the hose in the bottom, and then took a small shopvac and held the hose over the bottom carboy. I turned it on for about two seconds, and right off. That stuff flew faster'n a greenhorn from a west texas rattler!