Merry Christmas to all and a Tea sprinled 2004.
I've been reading many posts about Bob' Brewers. Not all good. Many
questions. Some may apply all brewers so can I talk about the
problems suggested without being accused of advertiing on Friday?
Cleaning - the air system. Some biofilm detected in the aerator and
in the vinyl tube leading to the aerator. It occured to me that tea
would get back into this system if left in the tea, not under air
pressure. And it happens even with best practice. Of course I would
want the air kept on. No, it will not hurt the air pump to operate
out of the tea for any period of time. The pump doesn't know it is in
or out of the tea. As to biofilm IN the inside of the aerator system
such as in the vinyl tube or IN the pvc down pipe - I have thought
that as long as it was dry air going thru the system into the TEA
that a biofilm would not be exposed to the tea and would not cause a
problem. Am I wrong on that? I thought that once a year or so that
entire part of the system cleaned in H2O2 would be enough. By the way
these pvc parts are all friction assembled so they can come apart to
clean. Sometimes the bottom cap removes with to much hammering on it.
Best way to hammer it off? Drop a steel rod into the pvc down pipe,
let it drop on the cap from inside. Most of the time customers
preffer to leave the cap on, dip in H2O2 or in chlorox or boiling
water.
The hook has been some more in question. I tried to design it up out
of the tea but at least foam covers it and often it is in the tea.
My dentist keeps me in more tooth brushes than I can wear out, an
old tooth brush dipped in H2O2 cleans most of the visible brown.
Maybe I need to rework this detail to let it fall apart to clean.
Hang on a coat hanger? I remeber saying that because some customer
had suggested it worked for her to allow her to brew 10 gallons in a
20 gallon "can". If I had designed a specific container into the
system, added that to the cost, shipping problem and limited the
capacity to the one size the system would be more sophisticated.
Would it have been more useful? More adoptable?
I didn't think that would be an advantage.
Instructions? More and better instructions? I'm the guy that always
puts it all together and only if I get stumped do I look at the
instructions. Almost never. So perhaps I haven't given instructions
for people who actually read and follow.
Thanks customers. I'm learning. Only please ask before you get
totaly turned off. One instruction I think I did add was PLEASE let
me know how it works for you. Some have. Most not. Most just
admiring the results in their part of agriculture. So I thought all
was well. Thanks Chris and others. I will go back to the old
drawing board. Bob
A favorite cartoon in my past was this picture of a locomotive
standing on its nose in the river on a broken bridge. The engineer
turned, walking away and said off hand, "Well, back to the old
drawing board"
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Received on Fri Dec 19 2003 - 14:52:45 EST