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I sprinkle a little RO soap powder on the soot . Wet lightly and the soot will come right off, with very little elbow grease. Use rubber cloves and safety glasses . I do my finisher and syrup pan,...

I have had good luck with this method. Take a qt of syrup up to around 237, not critical, just don't go to candy stage. Then remove from heat and add 1/2 cup or so of peanut butter ice cream...

I have a 2565 on my 360 tap helter skelter system. It pulls around 20" most of the time. I also have a 2067 dry vane for a backup that pulls about 3" less, but still does ok. I have 15 foot and 8...

Here is another place to go. I have gotten membranes from them and they are the lowest price that I have found. They sell new or used.
watersurplus.com

http://americanro.com

Try this guy. Good prices and service. No credit card needed. Ordered four membranes Monday by phone. UPS delivered today $20. I mailed out check on Tuesday. Prices are as...

I installed a 1/8 masonery blade in my Dewalt 14" metal cutting chop saw. Cut on the narrow side(stand up). Cut like butter. Use a dust mask.

I'm done, switching over to clean-up mode.

I put out 500 on vacume, Feb 1. I got them from Bascom last spring. They have been flowing like crazy for whatever the reason. They seemed to seat in easier than the CVs also. We'll see what they do...

Looks to be pretty nice machine to me, certainly as good as Weterguys. I did not look for the price though. I run 350gph with a 1Hp pressure pump and a 1/2Hp feed pump, with no problems at all. I...

I have been seeing the same thing. Yesterday I watched my RO flow @6 gpm and noted the minutes pumped @45 and came up with Approx. 270gals of 1.6% sap. Doing the math works out to around 53gal. I...

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Well said!!

I never thought much about it before but you all braught up an interesting point about the so called difference in standards for density. It looks to me like that if you were to correct the VT...

I got a dreaded Harbor Freight a couple years ago on sale for $1000 out the door. It's a 31 ton and splits anything I can get on it. If it won't split it, it will slice through it.

I have a Hanna just like the one that Maple Guys sell or sold and it works very well.

I have a cheap $135 like Maple guys sold. I don't know if they do now. Like the Doc says,it likes the temp. to be stable I sample a teasploon and when it is cool to the touch I put a few drops in the...

A single membrane unit like Waterguys could easily be built for $1100.

Thanks Gary, Thats good info. I just started pushing my 270s to 4.8p/1.2c @ 200psi, with no ill effects the last 300gal or so. I have around 500gal to do right now, so here goes.

I have the same(standard design)with a feed-back loop. Mine does 6gpm @200psi and 8% without feed back.
When feeding back to get a higher concentration, I lose gallon for gallon on the throughput. ...

The membranes XLE,NF all are rated to 600psi. Higher permeate flow = higher Ps.
It is directly proportunal, increase Ps, increase flow.
The limiting factors would be housing and piping, or pump. ...

I have a set up like yours only my releaser sits atop a 560gal bulk tank and I use no prefilter at all from the releaser.
I hose the tank out after each boil. I have been lucky so far at timing the...

Pulled 11 gals tonight and 8 gals yesterday. This vac. is sweet.

In my case, when it is boiling hard, the sap bubbles splash on the preheater pipes and mix with the condensate some, even with the defoamer. I would not say it is bad for clean up, just not pure...

This week looks incouraging.

For those of you who, like me use well water for the beginning of the season flush out, or have high mineral sap.
This is where you need to do the acid wash. I do it each year at the end of the...

Some of this is from another post that I include here to save you looking for it..

First, never reverse flow to wash, run as normal with as much flow as you can. Leave concentrate valve wide open....