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Tubes
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:45 pm
by lister
I need to find some food grade plastic/vinyl/silicone tubing 1/4" diameter with walls that can be fairly easily squished together with your hands. Any place in downtown Toronto (or an online place that has stock) that may have that? I have a varistaltic (peristaltic) pump that I want to use along with a filter. Yeah, yeah I know...but I still want to use it.
The tubing in the Brooklyn Brew Shop kits has thin enough walls but a diameter that is too big. Some tubing I got from the Brampton homebrew place has the right diameter but the walls are too thick. I need Goldilocks tubes.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:13 pm
by Derek
Have you tried heating the end of the tube in hot (or boiling) water to expand it?
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:27 pm
by lister
Expand it? I don't understand. Or perhaps I didn't explain well enough.
The Brooklyn tubing walls are good for pump manipulation but is too big to fit in the pump. The second set of tubing is the perfect size but the walls are too thick which makes it too rigid for the pump to manipulate.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:35 pm
by Derek
ahhh... thought maybe the walls were too thick to expand over it.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:16 pm
by lister
Thought of Home Depot over dinner. Drove right past one earlier today and didn't think of it. Duh.
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:53 pm
by trub_man
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:15 pm
by Tapsucker
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:19 pm
by lister
Wow! Look at those prices. I wound up buying some tubing from Home Depot. Once I got exactly the right size it works beautifully. Definitely a much better experience than the method a friend did as demonstrated in the Brooklyn Brewshop videos.