Always start very slowly and gently...it can erupt if you are not careful
a few spins of the drill and wait to see how much it foams
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Always start very slowly and gently...it can erupt if you are not careful
a few spins of the drill and wait to see how much it foams
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Last edited by lockwood1956; 09-05-2007 at 11:33 PM.
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Last edited by lockwood1956; 09-05-2007 at 11:27 PM.
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And settling down...so took it out of the sink
but will whiz stick it several times over two days
till hardly any foam at all
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Last edited by lockwood1956; 09-05-2007 at 11:27 PM.
N.G.W.B.J.
Member of 5 Towns Wine and Beer Makers Society (Yorkshire's newest)
Wine, mead and beer maker
OK here we go....method for vacuum degassing gallon jugs
1 Gallon demijohn fitted with safety bung
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Last edited by lockwood1956; 09-05-2007 at 11:27 PM.
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take 1 vacuvin and one bored bung
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Last edited by lockwood1956; 09-05-2007 at 11:28 PM.
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Insert bung into vacuvin
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Last edited by lockwood1956; 09-05-2007 at 11:28 PM.
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Wine, mead and beer maker
Press reasonable firmly...firm enough to make a seal and suck a few times on the vacuvin......
VOILA!
Vacuum createdand bubbles flow from the wine
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Last edited by lockwood1956; 09-05-2007 at 11:29 PM.
N.G.W.B.J.
Member of 5 Towns Wine and Beer Makers Society (Yorkshire's newest)
Wine, mead and beer maker
Degassing using a mityvac brake bleeding tool
here is the Mityvac, attached via a tube with a tapered end piece, insterted into an orange carbuoy cap
Last edited by lockwood1956; 23-01-2007 at 02:59 PM.
Pump to suck air from the carbuoy creating a vacuum
N.G.W.B.J.
Member of 5 Towns Wine and Beer Makers Society (Yorkshire's newest)
Wine, mead and beer maker
once vacuum created it shows on the pressure gauge
(well OK it doesn't in this pic...I'm a crap photographer...use your imagination dammit!)
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Member of 5 Towns Wine and Beer Makers Society (Yorkshire's newest)
Wine, mead and beer maker
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