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    Default Shutting down with float box?

    Just wondering when shutting down for a couple days do you take some sweet from the flue pan and pour it in the float box? Seems the stuff in the float box would spoil fast or freeze if not being it hasn't boiled yet.
    Thank you,
    Scott

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    Yes you need to get some hot sweet into the float box or it will spoil. You can do like you said and pour some hot sweet into it. I have a drain on my float box so I open the drain and draw some boiling sweet back into the float box and then just dump whatever I drained out into the flue section. If you don't it can ruin the whole pan of sweet.
    Jake
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    Thank you!

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    I got lucky, the previous owner of my rig had a drain welded into the bottom of my float box. A 100% drain too. Would never be without now.
    Noel Good
    1998 to 2009: 15 taps on buckets, scavenged fire pit and pans
    2010: New 2x4 SS flat pan w/preheater
    2015: New to me Lapierre 18x60 raised flue, new shack, new everything!! 59 taps 23.75 gallons
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    2017: Purchased 2.5 acres and tubed half with 3/16. 145 taps total 49.25 gallons
    2018: 200 taps (162 on 3/16ths 38 on buckets) New NextGen RO 63 gallons
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    I am going to get one for mine also! Sounds like the best solution. Thank you guys for the help!

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