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    Default Is this normal ?

    This is my first year boiling with my Smoky Lake Hybrid with Pro package. Everything is going great after finally getting the pan sweetened. BUT this is what I am dealing with. ALOT of splash out from the right side of the pan coating the pan and arch. Next year I am going to fabricate a stainless splash guard. I am running the pan approximately 1 inch deep.20160223_144037.jpg
    2013 Block arch 3 steamtable pans, 18 taps
    2014 Oil "Tankenstein" evaporator 45 taps so far
    2015 75 taps of buckets and bags
    2016 240 taps on bags, custom arch, 2x5 hybrid. 18.5 gallons syrup
    2017 200 taps on 3/16 gravity lines. No bags

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    That is right where the flames are hitting the flues if I'm guessing right. Lots of heat there is causing tons of hard boiling.
    custom made 2x7 intensofire
    With SL pans
    250 deer run
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    500 sacks around the neighborhood

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    Seems like a problem many folks here would love to have. Dial down the heat.....

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    I have the same thing happening on my hybrid pan. I started building up my fire right at the door to increase my boil in the front pans. Also took some sheet metal and built up a little 12 inch long 5 inch high splash guard. Seems to be helping.
    173 on 3/16 natural vac for 2023
    36 buckets
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    RB25 from RO Bucket
    12x24 salvaged sugarhouse built by wife's grandpa
    1965 Massey Ferguson 165 tractor to haul sap.

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    We had the same problem on ours so we built a splash guard.
    2013 135 Taps 35 on Gravity, 100 on Buckets 11 Gallons Made
    2014 310 Taps 75 on Sureflo 4048, 235 on Buckets, 16'x16' Sugarshack, 5" Filter Press, 2x6 Smoky Lake Hybrid Pan (SOLD) 23 Gallons made
    2015 315 Taps, 17 on Sureflo 4008, 62 on Sureflo 4048, 236 on Buckets 31.25 Gallons Made
    2016 New Northwoods Stainless Finisher and Steamhood
    2017 325 Taps 34 Gallons Made
    2018 150 Taps New Northwoods Stainless 2x6 Raised Flue w/ Air Tight Arch 40+ Gallons Made

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    I know this is an old thread but I have the same problem with my hybrid pan, anyone have pics of the splash guard they made?

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    Build a splash guard and keep burning the rig the way you are.
    Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
    Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
    Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
    After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.

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