Shutting down with float box?

[diesels77]

Just wondering when shutting down for a couple days do you take some sweet from the flue pan and pour it in the float box? Seems the stuff in the float box would spoil fast or freeze if not being it hasn't boiled yet.
Thank you,
Scott

[raptorfan85]

Yes you need to get some hot sweet into the float box or it will spoil. You can do like you said and pour some hot sweet into it. I have a drain on my float box so I open the drain and draw some boiling sweet back into the float box and then just dump whatever I drained out into the flue section. If you don't it can ruin the whole pan of sweet.

[diesels77]

Thank you!

[wnybassman]

I got lucky, the previous owner of my rig had a drain welded into the bottom of my float box. A 100% drain too. Would never be without now.

[diesels77]

I am going to get one for mine also! Sounds like the best solution. Thank you guys for the help!