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    Default Can I use this tank for sap?

    I need to know if it's possible to sufficiently clean a tank to make it safe for storing sap. This tank was used for liquid fertilizer. If it can be cleaned, what is the best way to do it?
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    Ray

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    I don't think I'd use it. Plastic is porous, so there will always be a little fertilizer residue in there somewhere.

    Do you know what the ingredients were in the fertilizer?

    Steve
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    The answer on that tank is NO< NO and Hell No. I don't believe there is any way to clean out chemicals that have permeated the plastic....I would stay away from any tank that had anything but food in it.

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    I agree, it would be very dangerous to use it. Very high probability it would taint the whole crop.
    Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
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    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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    I wouldn't.
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    DEFINITELY NOT,you would be asking for trouble
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    no they can't be properly cleaned. get a food grade tank

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    Definitely not. Maple sap will readily take on any off flavours and since it's acidic it will pick up the fertilizer residue - which gets concentrated 40:1. That price is also very close to the cost of a new tank so it's not a deal. I recently saw a 1550 gallon tank on sale at TSC for $850 is my memory is correct.
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    This conversation reminds me of the time I threw some engine part into the dishwasher with my wife's Tupperware..
    Almost grounds for divorce.....

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    All the guys on here, including this guy, want to know the end of this story. So, did the part clean up or not?
    2014 Upgrades!: 24x40 sugarhouse & 30"x10' Lapierre welded pans, wood fired w/ forced draft, homemade hood & preheater
    400 taps- half on gravity 5/16, half on gravity 3/16
    Airablo R.O. machine - in the house basement!
    Ford F-350 4x4 sap gatherer
    An assortment of barrels, cage tanks & bulk tanks- with one operational for cooling/holding concentrate
    And a few puzzled neighbors...

    http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/t...uckethead1920/

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