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Ryan Mahar
01-06-2016, 09:44 AM
Does the size of the mainline, when using 3/16th laterals matter? With our vacuum woods it's important to have the mainlines sized appropriately to maintain good vacuum and carry sap. But it is my understanding with 3/16th, the laterals are the only part of the system that will actually have vacuum correct. And if so , then oversizing the mainline is not a problem....right? So putting 1000 taps and having them all dump into 1 1/2 mainline is fine......?? Thanks for any comments.!

stewardsdairy
01-06-2016, 10:26 AM
Sounds like it would work just fine.