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What am I doing today....... My wine and I met with friends for our weekly Saturday breakfast get together to talk, tease, laugh and have a fun time. At home I did the weekend dusting, vacuuming and washed the floors. In the afternoon I bagged the leaves I raked up days earlier. I went for my...

Having a nice, hot, cup of tea tonight.

Hello from Ontario, this is a great site and I have learned lots reading thru the different postings. My son lives West of you in Vancouver BC. Lets hope Oil prices recover as it is having a big negative impact on business.

Made from scratch Rhubarb/blueberry wine.

If you look on page 5, #50, the last picture which shows the entire nozzle stand along with 2 other nozzles, black in color, you will see on the one I made myself which is painted brown, you will see I drilled 2 holes for the spring. The lower one is 6 inches down from center of hole that bolt...

Fiftyoon look at picture on #40, on page 4, it shows, pretty clearly, the setup to filter and bottle wine at the same time and how that small connection you describe is connected to the overflow container with tubing, which is connected with 2nd tube, directly to the vacuum pump.

Congratulations, stainless steel, very nice, looking at the welds I would guess Tig Welds. You will appreciate using it at bottling time. Don't forget you will need an overflow container to prevent foam and wine from being drawn into your vacuum pump and causing problems. Finally wine is...

That is where you connect the tubing that comes from your vacuum pump. You have an overflow, right before your vacuum pump where overflow foam and wine is collected, preventing it from entering your vacuum pump. One tubing goes from your vacuum pump to that collector of liquid. A second tubing...

I was using my vacuum pump to degas and the pressure got too high! Has this ever happened to anyone degassing their glass carboys using a vacuum pump. Not sure what to do. :)

Fiftyoon, one last thing. To make bottling trouble free I added onto the tubing that comes from the outlet side of filter body to the filler unit a valve that is right at fingers length to control the flow and shut off the wine entering the bottle. I purchased this at a Lowe's store in their...

I just opened a bottle of Rhubarb/Strawberry wine, the batch is now about 3 1/2 months old and already good tasting............ cheers. :)

You are welcome Fiftyoon and Runningwolf, thanks for your comment. Post a picture when you are done your filler so we can have a look at it. You will like the filler, easy to get used to using and fast to bottle. Michael.

Fiftyoon there are people here with years of experience making wine and you gain lots of knowledge by reading their posts. Runningwolf has much more experience than I. I started learning wine making when I retired in Fall of 2013. That is why I became a member of Wine Making Talk, to read what...

1 micron white wine, 5 micron red wine

I will add also, in regards to filters. I will filter 2 batches of wine, that is the same type of wine with 1 new, unused filter then I throw that filter away. I do not rinse and keep them. If I have more than 2 batches to do, which is not very often in my case, I then use a 2nd new and...

Filter is 5 micron made by iSpring and I buy them in bulk, 50 in a box. The filter body I bought at a local business that sells plumbing supplies, you can pick up the filter body anywhere, even from members of Wine Making Talk, just do a search. The tubing is 1/2 inch tubing, you can go...

the tube "it" slides into....... spelling error :)

I looked at the tube you show and there is no reason why is would not work, the tube is slides into if it has hole also, would just require a bolt thru the holes to adjust the height. With a base, even out of wood to hold your tubes and you are off and running. Many ways possible to accomplish...

Hello, no I have not made any changes as it works as I hoped. It is adjustable vertically for bottles of different heights. Works good and extremely simple to make. My work flow, after wine has cleared, is that I will, using vacuum pump, vacuum wine from carboy, filter the wine, and bottle...

wineon4 in any of the batches of wine you have made have you added any other fruit in the batch as a secondary addition and if you have what did you add and how much, relative to weight.