Homemade flue pan

[70 Buick]

A buddy gave me some 1.5 inch SS tubing
so we played with it
Steam pan warped like a son of a bitch LOL

can't wait to try it though

[70 Buick]

Finally got to give them a try
wow it boiled like an SOB
couldn't take a picture while it was at full boil couldn't see a thing LOL

here is a picture after I stopped feeding the fire, it is the back pan

At full boil the saop was jumping up 4 inches out of each tube


http://shootthebull.freeforums.org/download/file.php?id=268&t=1

[Zamkev]

nice job! funny looking, but obviously effective.

[Agent914]

70 Buick - Great to hear - I have been waiting to see how your barrel evaporator was going to work for you.

On the "sap jumping up 4 inches out of each tube" are you referring to the tubes in the pre-warmer pan or are you referring to action in the evaporator pans?

Agent914

[70 Buick]

70 Buick - Great to hear - I have been waiting to see how your barrel evaporator was going to work for you.

On the "sap jumping up 4 inches out of each tube" are you referring to the tubes in the pre-warmer pan or are you referring to action in the evaporator pans?

Agent914

In my homemade flue pan , man does that sucker ever evaporate , it doubled my rate

[KenWP]

My pans look almost the same except with 18 tubes per pan.I had to put a grate over the back pan to keep the sap in the pan and made extra 8 inch sides to the front pan and it still spits on me once in a while. It boils like 3 times as fast as the flat pans did.

[Kngowods]

70 buick what do you think your gph is with that fancy pan???

[70 Buick]

Probably went from 5 gph to 10

[70 Buick]

If you want to see it boiling here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJA7LHhsCWw&feature=player_embedded

[mathprofdk]

That is so awesome. This might be a silly question, but how do you get the sap from the flue pan to the syrup pan?

[70 Buick]

Laddle it forward
at the end of the day I take the pan out & pour it in the syrup pan, fill the flue with new sap

Not a perfect system but what the hell, we only do it for fun, & in this bad year we got almost 14 gallons of syrup LOL