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(seb) wrote in message . com>...
> I whant your feedback about some filling machine available in my area.
> For the one who use one of theses, please give me your feedback about
> how it works, great or not.
>
> 1) SS multi-spouts filling machine ( 3 spouts model )
> 2) SS true gravity fed with 3 spouts ( more professionnal unit )

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I have tried what you looking at. But at only 150g/year I bet you are
up to barrel size containers. If you do not have them stored for
natural gravity flow, you have to engage a pump to fill the reservoir.
Now you are engaging lots of equipment that have to be cleaned etc. At
this point you may as well fit a stop directly to the pump, which is
how I have ended up. I go through the use of the iris on the floor
corker with a S/S tube fitted with a flow control sensor that shout
down the pump when full @ 15 sec. Pull it out of the iris, insert a
cork and seal. I use the same pump to move wine between barrels. This
is a bit slow since the diameter is really too small. But it works
fine and you can leave it alone and let it do its thing as long as you
have some form of a strainer on your intake. I made one from a S/S
strainer. This so that larger oak pieces from your barrels that can
dislodge from toasting and float loose can't clog you up.

Also I found it tedious to clean the filler for just small fillings
and it now rest on one of my shelves as another conversation piece.

SG Brix