basics of installing wet and dry lines

[highlandcattle]

Basic info on installing wet and dry lines on vacuum. Thanks

[unc23win]

There are two common ways these days. One is to run the wet and dry lines parrallel to each other having dry on top of wet to a booster the dry line will go in the top and the wet line will go in the bottom then the mainlines which branch out to laterals with taps come in the back. This is the way that I am doing it with the advice of a few on here who are more experienced. Each mainline at the extractor as well as the booster has a ball valve so that leaks can be quickly isolated the extractor and booster both have gauges as well and then the ends of the lines have gauges if you desire. if you think you have a leak turn off the ball valves one by one and watch the guage if the vacuum increases thats most likely the line with the leak.

The other way to do wet dry is to use the whip style connections. From what I undertand is you use Y fitting to connect the dry line to the wet lines. Making the dry line go up and around like a whip as the sap is heavier it will continuing to flow through the line. People are using the whip style to run one dry line to multiple wet lines without boosters. Some are using valves and others aren't.

Your choice.