Anyone have a suggestion on food grade citric acid supplier? Ran out, have to shut the RO down and don’t have time to go to Bascoms or CDL up north since nobody can ship this stuff. Tried Grainger but it’s a 2 week ship.
Citric Acid alternative
Anyone have a suggestion on food grade citric acid supplier? Ran out, have to shut the RO down and don’t have time to go to Bascoms or CDL up north since nobody can ship this stuff. Tried Grainger but it’s a 2 week ship.
Hillcrest Maples
2024- 200 on Guzzler, new home built 2 post, SL vac filter
2023-100 on Shurflo, new 2 Post 4x40 RO Bucket
2022- 150 on Shurflo, new 16x36 Sugar House and 18x48 Vision, Dual RB 25's RO's
2021- 150 on Shurflo, home made arch under 18x40 cdl pan, RB 20 RO
2020- 99 On Shurflo home made arch under 18x40 cdl pan
2019- 10 buckets, steam pan on grill
2018- 5 spiles into milk jugs, stove top, caught the maple bug hard.
D. Roseum
www.roseummaple.com
~100 taps on 3/16 custom temp controlled vacuum; shurflo vacuum #2; custom nat gas evap with auto-drawoff and tank level gas shut-off controller; homemade RO #1; homemade RO #2; SL SS filter press
2021: 27.1 gallons
2022: 35 gallons
I buy mine bulk at a health food store.
And have bought it at bulk barn before as well.
600 taps on vacuum
Lapierre mechanical Releaser
CDL electric releaser
2.5 x 10 CDL Venturi ( new for the 2024 season )
Home made modulating auto draw off
Homemade RO 2 x 4" membranes
CDL 16 x 16 bottler
Wesfab 7" filter press
Delaval 73 vacuum pumps
12 hives of bees
I have bought from Amazon.
54 Acres bought in Sept 2010, hope for a lot of fun
Kabota 3400 w/ bucket
couple Husky chainsaws and a couple of Stihl
Big dream
2011 = 106 on gravity tubing, 100 bucket
2012 =700 vaccuum 100 gravity 80 bucket's
30" x 12' Vortex with Leader Revolution Max Raised pans
2013 = 1200 vac, 200 gravity, 5 buckets, buying from 300 buckets, 500 vac
Springtech RO 600 Deluxe
2015= 1800 all vac @ home, buying sap from 1200.
2017= 2200 all on vac. no longer buying sap
What's the difference between Amazon's citric acid and the suppliers? Amazon can ship but they can't?
Steve
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...
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I used the Amazon citric acid the other week, and used almost the entire 2lbs bag. I'm not sure how much you're supposed to use for an acid wash on a single 8-inch membrane, but it only got the pH down to 3.2, and I thought you need to get it to ~2 for a proper acid wash.
I'm not sure what the difference is between the maple companies and the Amazon stuff.
Josh
2009 - 370 on vac. & 16 buckets
2010 - 377 on vac.
2011 - 590 on vac.
2012 - 620 on high vac., 170 buckets, 110 on gravity tubing
2013 - 830 mine + 800-1000 others
2014 - 870 mine + 800-1000 others
2017 - 920 mine + 500-700 others
2018 - 902 mine + 500-700 others
2019 - 902 mine + 700 others
2020 - 902 mine + ???? others
Atlas Copco Pump
2.5'x8' 802maple Special with Dallaire pans
H2O Innovation 600gph RO
Spring Harvest Website
I never heard that the citric acid could not be shipped, just the lye soap. I got my last batch shipped from Amazon, didn't have time to go pick it up. Try a health food store if you have one nearby.
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.
It can be shipped. Just has to be in an approved tamper proof package and Probley another 100 requirements. It’s a white powder. So usually draws attention when being shipped. That’s what I was told anyways a couple years ago when I tried to buy my RO soap and storage solution powder from CDL and get them to ship it.
I just buy it bulk at health food stores. It’s way cheaper that way. And it’s food grade. I usually buy 10 lbs of it at a time.
600 taps on vacuum
Lapierre mechanical Releaser
CDL electric releaser
2.5 x 10 CDL Venturi ( new for the 2024 season )
Home made modulating auto draw off
Homemade RO 2 x 4" membranes
CDL 16 x 16 bottler
Wesfab 7" filter press
Delaval 73 vacuum pumps
12 hives of bees
Just another example of how the criminal element hurts the honest.Originally Posted by Bricklayer
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.
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