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I put a couple of batches on the other day and they started up pretty quick. They're both in plastic fermenters and I used regular old airlocks. After day 1, the airlock on one of the looked like it was spewing a root beer float, so I changed them over to blowoff tubes. That's when I noticed two potential problems on one of them: (1) the tube was slightly smaller than the hole in the bung, so I could hear gas coming out of the gap, and (2) gas started coming out from under the lid of the fermenter.

To fix the first problem, I soaked a paper towel in sanitizer and stuffed it around the tube where it goes into the bung, kinda like a caulk.

For the second problem I tried pushing down on the lid to make it tighter, but it was already all the way down.

So I'm wondering if this is going to cause problems or am I being paranoid? Any comments or suggestions are welcome

I think the towel soaked in sanitizer should work for the blowoff tube. Plastic bucket lids are notorious for leaking. Not a problem.

So now the wife is threatening to shut down the brewery... any fixes for that?

I dont even bother snapping the lids when I use plastic. There too hard to get back off.

All should be fine.

Sandy

bluenose wrote:So now the wife is threatening to shut down the brewery... any fixes for that?

lol, start buying flats of beer at the NSLC and give her the bill.

bluenose wrote:So now the wife is threatening to shut down the brewery... any fixes for that?

make her a beer that she likes. or find a new wife. lol

she doesn't even drink beer when she's not pregnant

Get her a job with the NSLC.

bluenose wrote:So now the wife is threatening to shut down the brewery... any fixes for that?

What's her complaint? Odd smells? Eat more chilly to offset with other odd smells. Cost? Feign interest in a more expensive hobby.

akr71 wrote: Cost? Feign interest in a more expensive hobby.

You sir, are a genius. Excuse me while I go buy some sailing magazines.

papercrane wrote:

akr71 wrote: Cost? Feign interest in a more expensive hobby.

You sir, are a genius. Excuse me while I go buy some sailing magazines.

Well played...

papercrane wrote:

akr71 wrote: Cost? Feign interest in a more expensive hobby.

You sir, are a genius. Excuse me while I go buy some sailing magazines.

Or a subscription to High Times.

GAM wrote:I dont even bother snapping the lids when I use plastic. There too hard to get back off.

All should be fine.

Sandy

Same here.

bluenose wrote:

papercrane wrote:

akr71 wrote: Cost? Feign interest in a more expensive hobby.

You sir, are a genius. Excuse me while I go buy some sailing magazines.

Well played...

I use this stunt all the time. It works too well.

GAM wrote:I dont even bother snapping the lids when I use plastic. There too hard to get back off.

All should be fine.

Sandy

i cracked a lid once taking it off, so probably a good call

CorneliusAlphonse wrote:

GAM wrote:I dont even bother snapping the lids when I use plastic. There too hard to get back off.

All should be fine.

Sandy

i cracked a lid once taking it off, so probably a good call

I. Just did this! Damn thing split right in half, cleaning a another lid to replace it and get my beer covered back up

This simple piece of plastic is the miracle device that you need.

KMcK wrote:This simple piece of plastic is the miracle device that you need.

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ah yes, the décapsulateur de seau d'E-Z

Get a second one, they break also. But they are cheap at Princess Auto.