CLEANING TUBING

[ERASMO]

Has anyone come up with a good trick for sanitizing your tubing.

I have been just sinking it in my bucket of star san but I am never sure if the entire tubing length gets treated.

Thanks

 

[grapeman]

I attach it to the autosiphon and pump k-meta solution through it. I then let it drip a bit and make sure the autosiphon is empty.

 

[ibglowin]

+1

 

[xanxer82]

I attach it to the autosiphon and pump k-meta solution through it. I then let it drip a bit and make sure the autosiphon is empty.

I do this too

 

[tdeyette]

I have a spray bottle of K-meta solution. When sanatizing the tube I spray some solution into the tube then by holding the tubein a big "U" shape I run the solution back and forth in the tube. Thus wetting all the internal surfaces.

 

[Runningwolf]

I do all of the above

 

[Waldo]

Same here

 

[admiral]

Ditto.

 

[hannabarn]

Yep

 

[wine_wizard]

and another one is to coil your tubing counterclockwise in your pail and then with only a little fluid at the bottom needed, tilt the bucket and rotate it clockwise, watch the fluid "climb" up the inside of the tubing...
( old technique pump, see "archimedes screw" )
this is a designer model (the "corkscrew" tubing rotates)
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Screw/applications/Pye_screw_big.jpg

 

[Danny]

Pretty much the same.....I make up kmeta and keep it in one of my one gallon jugs.Ifmaking a one gallon fruit wine, I just siphon the kmeta solution from the jug to the one gallon jug I'm using for the wine.


If sanitizing a3-6 gallon carboy, I first funnel the kmeta to the carboy to sanitize it, then use the largerauto siphon to siphon the kmeta back to the jug.

 

[Runningwolf]

WOW this is an old thread you replied to. It is worth bringing up though as I have changed my practice. After washing the tubing I still spray some k-meta in them but now I immediately store all of my tubing in a five gallon bucket with an half gallon jug of k-meta. The vapors are continuously keeping them sanitized a lot better then hanging out on my peg board. All of my tubing is also labeled as to which filter or filler it belong to.