Vacuum Filtering

[Pdiamond]

Very nicely done video. Short, precise, step by step, well done. Just make sure to rinse the shower out real well sticky is yicky!!!!!! Yeah I have a hard time makin syrup. Can't stand to be sticky. You should've seen me when the kids were young.

[ScottT]

Bringing this thread back to the forefront.

I'm thinking about making my own vacuum filter for next year. We are producing more syrup now than our cone filter method can handle. Still loosing a lot of syrup inn our filters. And I'd like a simpler method of filtering...

My question for those who have made their own vacuum filters: Do you have any challenges with the vacuum pulling the nitre through the filters? Does your vacuum filter eliminate most of the nitre?

[eustis22]

I am still unsuccessful at filtering on my CDL 9" vac filter with the DE in the hot syrup. The syrup simply will not pass thru the filters. I have added up to 2 cups of DE/gallon and still do not have any success.

[BAP]

I am still unsuccessful at filtering on my CDL 9" vac filter with the DE in the hot syrup. The syrup simply will not pass thru the filters. I have added up to 2 cups of DE/gallon and still do not have any success.

Try doubling your DE in your next batch of syrup and see what happens. I find on mine that more DE is better than less.

[jrgagne99]

Has anyone tried adding vacuum to the traditional Leader canning unit? Seems to me you could just add some gasketing around the top of the lid, flip it upside down, add some holes and clamp a bottom-less SS bucket to the top, or one with holes drilled in the bottom.

[DRoseum]

Nope - i gave up on vacuum filtering (too much clogging) and bought a press. Then this year I experimented with a cheap stainless inline filter to make a DIY filter press and was more than pleased.

Video overview: https://youtu.be/TZPiSihC5_Y

And apparently RO bucket makes something similar.

[BigJon]

Making one of these vacuum filters work is easy. Replace the original top gasket with a length of silicone tubing (1/4” or smaller) and only use one orlon filter and one pre filter. No need to pre-wet them. I batch my syrup to be able to use one of my Guzzler vacuum pumps when it’s freezing out and connect it using the same quick disconnects I use one of my my mainlines. I can generally get 5-10 gallons through one pre filter depending on how dirty the syrup is using 2 cups of DE in the first gallon and a half cup per gallon thereafter. Should only take about 3 min per full upper ring of syrup to go through the filter. The guzzler can pull up to 18” of vacuum within the filter tank, way more than a shop vac. And no worries about steam taking out a shop vac or regular vacuum pump.