Check Valve Adapters

[Rossell's Sugar Camp]

Will the check valve spout adapters fit normal 7/16 spouts?

[220 maple]

They fit blue Leader and black IPL 7/16 spiles. Will on work on my Green Maple Pro style spiles

Mark 220 Maple

[markcasper]

Won't they work on the green maple pro if you cut the tip off a bit?

[Rossell's Sugar Camp]

Will they fit black cdl spouts?

[sugarstone]

Will they fit black cdl spouts?

They fit my black CDLs and the blue D&Gs....might be onto something here..Anyone try this last year?
Seem to fit snug enough.

[Rossell's Sugar Camp]

I may use them next year because i have all blue leaders and black cdls. I hear all good about them. And i think they were experimental last year.

[jnmaple]

if the tips of green maple pro spouts are cut off the check valve seem to work

[Russell Lampron]

They also fit some old US Maple spouts that I had. Those have all been replaced by Lapierre stubbies.

[Dill]

Ok since I'm a wee bit cheap, I was tapping what could be a spout testing environment. Leader and Lapierre and CDL stubbies, check with the check valve.
Same with 7/16s from Leader, and even old green US maple 7/16s. But they don't fit 7/16 D&G spouts. They are just loose which is odd since the Lapierre adapters I used last year fit those the tightest.

[Dill]

Ok they really don't work on D&G 7/16s spouts. I just checked and had 50 of them hanging down, trees covered in frozen sap and nothing in the barrels needless to say I'm not happy.

[tjs farm]

Just ran in to this problem with my dg spouts.Cut off about 1/4or3/8 off,take 51/16 tap bit run it into spile to clean it up.Be careful not to mess up little fingers inside check valve.I was just using my linemen pliers ,but I think tobing cutters will work better,Ill let you know tomarrow.Good luck,Tom I meant to say becarefull when plugging into check valve,not to mess up little fingers

[Jeff E]

How do you all do the actual tapping?
Drill your tree, tap in the check valve, twist in tap?

[Brian Ryther]

Jeff,
Drill tree, Pound CV, Pound Stubbie. When they are set they stop going together. I have had them already loosen from frost. Pound and re pound. I do not care how hard it might be to seperate them. I do not want them to leak!

[Dill]

I drill the tree, stick the CV into the stubbie, insert into tree and tap/smack it home. The leader and Lapierre stubbies I've used really stick tight. I have to go out the one handed tool and swap out the ones that don't work.