Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Autosiphon dime fix

After only about five brews, I've been finding that the little valve flap thing in my autosiphon keeps popping off.  At first, it seemed to only happen when I sucked up hop matter into the autosiphon, but last night the little thing popped out while I was running sanitizer through it.  I had wort chilling, so I didn't have time to spend popping it back in with a pair of tweezers as I've done before.  So I tried dropping a dime in the siphon as I've read on the internet.  It didn't work as well as the little plastic flap, but after a few strokes I did get a siphon started.

In summary, fixing an autosiphon with a dime does work.  (I have the half inch model of the autosiphon.)

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