Hey folks, after months of lurking, here's my first post.

It's been a rough couple weeks of weather without any strong sap flows here in SW New Hampshire. It's my first experience with tubing, and the sap running today tastes pretty strongly of the plastic tubing. I know there are no stupid questions, so here it is: Was I supposed to somehow rinse out my semi-rigid before stringing it all up?

I assume boiling that sap would produce some pretty funky syrup if it would just concentrate the plastic flavor. I only have about 30 gallons so far. I'd rather ditch it and boil newer stuff if it means the lines have been rinsed with the first sap runs. Thoughts?

Thanks!

- JJ