I am starting to replace my 3/16 lines and I am using Leader fittings . Is it me or are the end line fittings badly designed. Every time you get line tight the lines pop out of the hook on fitting.
I am starting to replace my 3/16 lines and I am using Leader fittings . Is it me or are the end line fittings badly designed. Every time you get line tight the lines pop out of the hook on fitting.
110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing
2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144
I never used Leader 3/16 fittings, but I've found best results are achieved when you wrap the 3/16 around the tree and have the end line hook joint the main 3/16 around the tree at a 90 degree angle. When you try to pull the hook away from the tree trunk and the angle becomes much steeper than 90 degrees it tends to unhook.
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.
I have used the Lapierre "end of the line eyelet" fitting for 11 years and they work perfectly. My nephew put up 130 taps using the Leader end line fittings and you cannot tighten the line with them. They just don't work.
Joe
2004- 470 taps on gravity and buckets
2006- 590 taps on gravity and buckets 300 gph RO
2009- 845 taps on vacuum no buckets, 600 gph RO
2010- 925 taps on vacuum new 2 stage vacuum pump
2014- 3045 taps on vacuum, new 1200 gph RO
2015- 3104 taps on vacuum
2017- 3213 taps on vacuum
3' x 10' oil fired evaporator with steamaway
You can also use a 1/4" hollow braid rope, slide the tubing into the center of the rope for 3-4" then out the side. Tie the rope to the end tree and it grips like a Chinese finger trap. Then adjust as needed and put the tap on the end. That method gives you lots of adjustment. To get the tubing threaded into the center, take a ball point pen that unscrews in the middle apart, slide the tubing into the big end of the pen point and push the tip into the rope. It is easy to get the tubing in as far as desired, then out thru the side. A couple of wraps of elec. tape just before the end of the rope helps keep the rope from unraveling
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.
In the past the only Leader end line fitting I've had success with is the end ring fitting. It grips well and is adjustable, but it leaves a kink in the tubing where it grips.
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.
Joe your right you can’t get a tight line with them and this is why I have a love hate relationship with Leader. They don’t put a lot of thought into their product development! Someone above mention their end ring fitting that works but only comes in 5/16 which means you got to start with 5/16 and than reduce it which is pain in keister!
110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing
2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144
I also use the hollow core rope and have no problems with it.
Smoky Lake 2x6 dropflu pans and hoods on homemade arch
Smoky Lake 6 gallon water jacked bottler
Concentric Exhaust
250 Deer Run RO
325 taps
With the hollow core rope I use field tip off an arrow , the threaded end fits into 3/16 tubing and it's easy to push into the rope. I did a little bit of grinding on the tip to take off any edges
They make rope splicing fids:
https://www.amazon.com/rope-splicing...+splicing+fids
I use leader end hooks and I push a piece of electric fence wire through a length of tubing and wrap it around the tree and twist the wire together behind the line side. I then hook the end hook over that tubing and it's straight and will hold. Not a lot different than hollow core rope.
125-150 taps
Smokey Lakes Full pint Hybrid pan
Modified half pint arch
Air over fire
All 3/16 tubing
Southern Ohio
I just put my first spile in the end (top) of the line and go down from there. Don't see the point in having a loop end.
I used to run hollow-core rope to make it tight and then a vacuum gauge at the top of my runs but don't bother anymore.
1980 - 6 taps, stone fire pit, drain pan evaporator, 1 pint of syrup
2016 - 55 taps on 3/16 and gravity, new sugar shack, 2x3 Mason XL, 16 gallons of syrup
2017 - 170 taps on 3/16, 2x4 Mason XL, NextGen RO. 50 gallons of syrup
2018 - 250+ taps on gravity and buckets, 2x5 Smokey Lake arch and Beaverland pan.
2019 - 250+ taps on gravity. A few buckets. 35 gallons of syrup.
2020 - 300+ taps on gravity. 50 gallons of syrup.
2021 - 280 taps on gravity and 40 buckets. 35 gallons of syrup.