tonyt
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The full 6 gallon carboys are more than the 4 pound limit imposed on me by my Neurologist, my back goes out easily. So I scoured the web for some of the vacuum equipment y'all use. Long story short I remembered the mini vac that Mr. Oreck gave free with the last upright my wife bought. So I hooked it up as follows pictured left to right.
1 Mini Vac
2 mini vac hose fit snugly into an air lock
4 air lock into hose
5 hose into Orange Top
6 Bottling cane w/o tip through other side of Orange Top with a few inches above Orange Top and most of cane hanging into glass receiving carboy
7 Hose from bottling cane to racking siphon
8 racking siphon inside sending primary or carboy
I tested it with a couple gallons of water and it did fine, it took about 5 minutes to transfer two gallons. I do not know the psi of the vacuum, it is about 10 years old. I will do my best to clean the vacuum hose but don't think I really need to worry about that. I will aim exhaust away from wine. I may get a longer cane or hose for the receiving carboy so it will not splash for later rackings. I will let it splash for early rackings.
Please try to shoot any holes in this that you can before I proceed to racking my Nero d'Avola in a few days. And what do y'all think about using this getup for degassing? And again please don't laugh.
1 Mini Vac
2 mini vac hose fit snugly into an air lock
4 air lock into hose
5 hose into Orange Top
6 Bottling cane w/o tip through other side of Orange Top with a few inches above Orange Top and most of cane hanging into glass receiving carboy
7 Hose from bottling cane to racking siphon
8 racking siphon inside sending primary or carboy
I tested it with a couple gallons of water and it did fine, it took about 5 minutes to transfer two gallons. I do not know the psi of the vacuum, it is about 10 years old. I will do my best to clean the vacuum hose but don't think I really need to worry about that. I will aim exhaust away from wine. I may get a longer cane or hose for the receiving carboy so it will not splash for later rackings. I will let it splash for early rackings.
Please try to shoot any holes in this that you can before I proceed to racking my Nero d'Avola in a few days. And what do y'all think about using this getup for degassing? And again please don't laugh.