This may be overkill and you may have previously read it,
but please bear with me as this is im****tant to me.
My honey comes in 5-gallon pails with or without an EZ-Pour spout.
After a pail is empty, lids with EZ-Pours get cleaned and saved for
use on a pail without an EZ-Pour.
My initial problem was the slow flow rate from the pail to the fermenter.
So I drilled a hole 180 degrees above the EZ-Pour and installed a
bottling bucket spigot - turned outward with about 6" of plastic tubing
over the end of the spigot. Once the pour starts the spigot is opened
and the honey flows at a much faster rate. I'd estimate that without the
spigot opened it takes about 8 minutes to pour 15 lbs of honey where as
with the spigot opened it takes about 2 minutes.
The new problem is the flow rate slowly decreases upon closing the
spigot. My work-around solution is to close the spigot about 20 seconds
into the pour.
My thought is to make a large spigot to use with a regular lid. One first
thought it would require a threaded stainless steel tube 1-1/4" diameter,
two stainless steel nuts (one inside & one outside), a sheet of food grade
material that can be used to cut out washers, a stainless steel faucet
with
a thread spout and a stainless steel cap to cover the spout when it is
closed.
I went to Home Depot and to a plumbing supply store. They understood
what I want to do. They just did not have the parts (other that the
faucet).
I'm not looking for another way to pour honey, just a way to improve the
way I currently pour.
Any ideas,
Dick
