Mechanical releaser
Hello everyone, I have a single vertical mechanical releaser. It's a D&G releaser. I am wondering about the tubing on this device, which has accumulated some gunk inside them over the years. Should this tubing be replaced from time to time or is it OK there is a little gunk in them. It's not alot of stuff inside. Also any good maintenance recommendations? Thanks and good luck!!
I would change the lines of there's junk in them. Some good food grade lubricant oil on the moving parts is a good idea as well.
Jake
smoky lake 2x6 drop flue SSR on homemade arch
235 taps on 2 gast 1550s and lappiere releasers
24x12 sugar house
2019 Kubota L2501 work horse
Last season i replaced the tubing and hose barbs on the cylinder of my double mechanical releaser, i just used some flexible drop 5/16 tubing, worked like a charm. Also Molykote 111 to lube the contact plates. This season i found that a mason bee had plugged one of the air lines, cleaned that out and back in production!
2024 - 57 Gallons - Short season, many and varied problems remedied in short order! - No buckets!
2023 - 38 Gallons - RO broke, Buckets didn't run, rebuilt vacuum pump mid-season, still made good syrup!
2022 - 52 Gallons - DIY RO, 50% less fuel, no late nights in the shack!
2021 - 48 Gallons - new pans, new arch, lots of new taps and tubing
2020 - 32 Gallons
2019 - 27 Gallons
Mason bee did the same to my 11 year old double canister Lappierre releaser, apparently after you broke up his happy home he moved to Pendleton County!
Mark 220 Maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
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