How do people clean there bottling/syphon lines?

[Hoddy]

Hi all,

Interested to hear how people clean and maintain there flexible silicone pipe work they use for syphoning/bottling/keg filling?

And how often do people replace it?




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[MyQul]

I've started using sodium percarbonate to clean my syphon kit. I just replace it whenever it's looking a bit manky

 

[Hoddy]

I've started using sodium percarbonate to clean my syphon kit. I just replace it whenever it's looking a bit manky

So how do you clean it with percarbonate quils?

I'm interested to hear what others do as I'm looking at ways of reducing infections and increase quality.


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[Chippy_Tea]

I cut a funnel down so the pipe is a very tight fit in the end, i pour a kettle full of boiling water down the tube and i have never had a problem.

 

[Dutto]

After use I run fresh water through everything and then swing the tubes round my head to empty them as much as possible and let them drain over a beam in the garage.

Before use I lower them into the OxiChem solution so that they fill with liquid and then after assembly I drain them and rinse them with fresh water before deployment.

It works for me! :thumb:

 

[TheRedDarren]

Disassemble and submerge in VWP for 10/20 mins and rinse thoroughly (and then some more) just before use.
After use I do the same but with PBW and leave to drip dry.

 

[IainM]

Same, 10 mins in VWP works for me. I submerge it carefully to ensure that there are no air bubbles. I then siphon some previously boiled water through it to rinse inside.

 

[MarkMayf]

After siphoning, flush the majority of residue out with clean water, pump a little sodium percarbonate solution through and rinse with clean water.

I did leave one with some water in the flexible pipe unknowingly that went mouldy. I couldn't get it visibly clean so dumped that.

Now I make double sure they are drained before putting them away.

 

[MyQul]

So how do you clean it with percarbonate quils?

I'm interested to hear what others do as I'm looking at ways of reducing infections and increase quality.


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Use a high sided tray (I normally use the drip tray of my fastrack, but you can get quite large ones from B&Q) and using a solution of 1tsp/1L of sodium percabonate. I submerge my syphon kit in the SP solution. I will usually use a turkey baster to make sure solution is forced down the syphon tube. Then rinse with water

 

[Leon103]

Wash and soak in oxiclean. Replace when it looks manky. In fact I have just ordered some tube. 2m for £3 on eBay

 

[MyQul]

Oxi clean is ok but the active ingredient is sodium percarbonate. Most oxi clean type powder is only 30% SP. So I bought SP instead from ebay. I think it's 85%. Oxi clean also leaves a residue behind from the other 70% which SP doesnt

 

[cheapbrew]

boiling water before use and then as per dutto after use, rinse with tap water and swing round me ead and hang to dry.... and.... boiling water before next use and repeat.

 

[MarkMayf]

Does the 85% SP have a slimy feel to it in solution? I am using bruclens at the minute from wilko which feels slimy.

Presumably an effect of the chemical being a base?

 

[MyQul]

Does the 85% SP have a slimy feel to it in solution? I am using bruclens at the minute from wilko which feels slimy.

Presumably an effect of the chemical being a base?

Not that ive noticed. But I've only just switched from oxi clean to SP

 

[Hoppyland]

I cut a funnel down so the pipe is a very tight fit in the end, i pour a kettle full of boiling water down the tube and i have never had a problem.

This is basically my method, but once in a while I pour thin bleach down the tube & let it sit there for 20-30 mins in a bowl and sponge the bleach over the outside of the tube.

 

[Fil]

flush mine and rinse through with the pressure from the tap and hang up to dry,

Before use again, with pvc tubes i soak in oxi and rinse and sanitise with starsan by submersion, silicone i may do the same but may also boil.

always store dry best hung up both ends pointing down, if you must coil avoid sealing up in an air tight container

 

[Dutto]

.......... but once in a while I pour thin bleach down the tube............

Thank goodness you don't advise "sucking" the bleach up into the tube! :thumb: :thumb:

I remember once being in a refinery laboratory watching a Lab Tech sucking a substance up into a pipette.

In between sucks he was telling me "I would never work out there in the refinery. It's just too bloody dangerous!"

He was sucking a product called Tetramethyl Lead (TML) into the pipette at the time ...

... poisoning symptoms of which are "You go mad, have bad dreams and die!" :whistle: :whistle:

Happy Days!! :thumb:

 

[JapanBrew]

I've heard of people using those air pump garden sprayers. Really cheap. I'm going to get one today and try it. It's really hard to get oxyclean or any other good cleaners here in Japan. I've just been using dishwasher liquid detergent and rinsing well.

 

[Cqr]

I rinse them in tap water, hang over a beam till,dry
I starsan them at time of use

 

[Leon103]

Oxi clean is ok but the active ingredient is sodium percarbonate. Most oxi clean type powder is only 30% SP. So I bought SP instead from ebay. I think it's 85%. Oxi clean also leaves a residue behind from the other 70% which SP doesnt

How does it say to use? It's a bit more expensive than oxiclean