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cubicle
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Airstones for grain jar lids?
#10589569 - 06/28/09 11:02 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Could you use fish tank airstones as a filter for gas exchange in your jar lids? I am probably way wrong, just trying to be creative.
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nicechrisman
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: cubicle]
#10589638 - 06/28/09 11:13 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Seems like it would be more trouble than it's worth to get them to stay in place. Maybe it would work though. I find micropore tape to be pretty easy, although it can be a little fragile when it's moist from the PC.
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cubicle
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: nicechrisman]
#10589722 - 06/28/09 11:23 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dab a silicone?
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nicechrisman
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: cubicle]
#10589818 - 06/28/09 11:33 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Silicone works great for an injection site, and would probably work good for holding an airstone in place. I just think it's a lot easier to stick a piece of tape on there though.
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: nicechrisman]
#10590092 - 06/29/09 12:14 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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airstone could be rather innovative
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: P.Menace]
#10591260 - 06/29/09 07:43 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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P.Menace said: airstone could be rather innovative
If 'innovative' means 'way more work than it's worth'.  A bag of polyfil costs about as much as a two-pack of airstones. It'll make filters for several hundred jars.
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: Doc_T]
#10591319 - 06/29/09 08:11 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'll, as well as almost everyone here, vouch for polyfill... I will also recommend NOT using tape. I had to toss out 8 jars of WBS last week. I made 10 jars total the week before, 2 with poly, and the other 8 with micropore tape. The jars with poly were at 100% while the jars with the tape were at maybe 2% and contamed. I redrilled the lids with a bigger hole for poly, made some more WBS, re-G2G'd them, and they're at about 80% now. So... lesson learned for me, I'm done with tape for anything like that.
Airstones sound like a neat idea, but I do believe they would be more expensive and more trouble than just shoving some polyfill in a hole.
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: Scucci]
#10591329 - 06/29/09 08:18 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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It would be good for a special-purpose jar, maybe. LC jar, for example. You could stick the tube of the stone down through a hole in the lid and RTV it in place. Totally sealed but breathable... I wonder how tight the matrix is in an airstone?
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: Doc_T]
#10591381 - 06/29/09 08:41 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was thinking of having the airstone stick out the top. Possibly even having a short piece of tubing attached to it that I could clamp off when I shake.
My biggest concern is whether or not the plastic could handle the temps.
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: cubicle]
#10591391 - 06/29/09 08:44 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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cubicle said: My biggest concern is whether or not the plastic could handle the temps.
Really only one way to answer that. Let us know what you find out.
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Re: Airstones for grain jar lids? [Re: Doc_T]
#10591575 - 06/29/09 10:00 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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genius tek: after pressure cooking my jars I take a small piece of a cotton ball and wad it up, then pick it up with a piece of tape and place it over the hole. polyfill would work just as well if not better!
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