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Quick and easy vacuum filter build
:emb:We just built this vacuum filter last week. Bought a turkey fryer kit from Walmart for $48. We had already purchased another one for the propane burner stand. Take the two pots and
1. Take the metal handle off 1 cover, then drill holes thru the lid all around it.
2. do the same to the bottom of pan #2.
3. Sand, grind, file all the aluminum burrs off the finished lid and pot bottom.
4. Now the pots should stack together with the lower pot lid and upper pot bottom the area where you will clamp the pots together with a prefilter and filter between them. The syrup will be pulled through the holes, filter, and end up in bottom pot.
5. For vacuum port, drill a hole with a hole saw, for a Pvc threaded coupler that your shop vac hose will snuggly fit into. Insert a couple rubber washers on each side of the threaded coupler, and screw to tightening down.
6. Get 4 adjustable stainless steel turnbuckles and some small eyebolt to screw them onto the pots, along with a fender washer and nut on each side of the pot to cinch them up tightly. Space the 4 out evenly, and screw the bottom end of the buckle on the bottom pot with the eyebolt. Then another eye bolt into the top pot spaced so the turnbuckle can be screwed to tighten it up. Do this with all 4 and you are all set! Plug in your ~4.5hp shop vac and get your filters in there and give a run with the top on the top pot. If you it gets sucked down and you can lift the whole unit from the lid, you are in good shape. Test next with water, then you will be ready for syrup.