For a sap releaser, some producers have been using old glass dairy milk releasers. They say they work well for 200 taps and under. (do a search on this web site for bender or milk releaser.) I could not find one when I was setting up my system so I bit the bullet and bought a Lapierre - works great.

Anyway, a dairy farmer called me tonight and asked me if I was interested in an old dairy releaser. I told him "no", but also directed him to this site to post in the "for sale" section. He had some used vacuum pumps he was looking to sell as well. Keep checking out those sale items - maybe he will post.