Bryan
Bode is ready to tap. But I will put him in my nightly prayers anyway.
Thanks for your offer on fittings. I did test my RO and to my utter surprise no leaks. I guess the threads are so small they seal pretty well with the tape. When I use larger polyvinyl on jet pumps I usually have leaks or crack the fitting trying to make them go away. Larger threads easier to leak ... even with tape ... I guess. Regardless I was in great fret I would be making a home sprinkler system instead of RO system.
Did have one small leak and it was the second temporary needle valve ( brass compression which I think was flawed ) at the permeate outlet only used in this test situation to build pressure in the membraneless system. The one at the waste line worked fine. Had a filter in the system and that was it. Tested at 100 PSI. Will probably run it a little higher with sap.
I hope its not one of those crazy sapless years now!
If you think it's easy to make good money in maple syrup .... then your obviously good at stealing somebody's Maple Syrup.
Favorite Tree: Sugar Maple
Most Hated Animal: Sap Sucker
Most Loved Animal: Devon Rex Cat
Favorite Kingpin: Bruce Bascom
40 Sugar Maple Taps ... 23 in CT and 17 in NY .... 29 on gravity tubing and 11 on 5G buckets ... 2019 Totals 508 gallons of sap, 7 boils, 11.4 gallons of syrup.
1 Girlfriend that gives away all my syrup to her friends.