Polycarbide abrasive wheels to clean pan?
Can you use polycarbide abrasive wheels (the ones that look like black solid sponges) to clean severely burned pans? 1st boil of the season, apparently I put the float in backwards in the float box. I thought the float was symmetric, nope. Worked fine for a bit, but when I ran in to make breakfast apparently it got stuck. 15 minutes later, I had embers in the pans. Probably was stuck for longer then that, but I failed to notice through all the steam. Probably dished the bottoms about 1/2”. Need to test if they still hold water in the chambers. I tried the abrasive wheel on a test spot and they seemed to work pretty good, but also scratched up the surface a fair amount.
2014 - 30 taps
2015 - 50 taps
2016 - 140 taps
2017 - 115 taps - 85 taps on 3/16, 30 buckets
2018 - 150 taps, all 3/16
Smokey Lake 2x3
Homemade 2x XLE-4040 RO Unit
Kubota L3940 - big sap hauler
Polaris Sportsman 570 SP - little sap hauler
I'm 1:20 remote from sugarbush, so I let run awhile between boils, and time is at a premium, so I try to oversize things