I was flipping through my brew your own magazine & came across this ad. Has anybody used this device & did it work really well? I like the concept.
http://www.carboycleaner.com/index.html
http://www.carboycleaner.com/index.html
I considered that device when I saw it in BYO also, but it seemed unnecessary to me. I would be nervous that my carboy would break with something like that. I haven't had my carboy for that long, but I prefer to just do an oxiclean soak.
I like it. I'm too lazy to do the oxy soak....I forget about it for days and then I get those damn mineral deposits.
No way will I pay 30 bucks for it though, (sorry, I'm stealing the idea...broke brewer here...)...but I'll be picking up the crap for it at Lowes tomorrow I think. I figure a few bucks for a rod, then some fancy method of attaching the cloth, (strips of towel or something should work, perhaps with a bit of scotchbrite scrubby sewn onto the end?). Maybe a plastic or epoxy cap on the bottom so it doesn't have metal-to-carboy contact on the tip....
Side note: that video is ridiculous.
Yeah it looks like a ShamWoW on a stick.
I thought for sure that guy was going to told me that if I ordered in the next hour I would get a second carboy cleaner for free. Anyone else think this dude is trying to be the next Billie Mays?Looks pretty cool but the video was hilarious. I liked the bit where he was unsuccessfully trying to clean it with a carboy brush. It should have been in black and white like in an infomercial.
Watching the carboy shake jiggle and bounce all over the place scared the crap out of me.
Looks pretty cool but the video was hilarious. I liked the bit where he was unsuccessfully trying to clean it with a carboy brush. It should have been in black and white like in an infomercial.
Yeah it looks like a ShamWoW on a stick.
hilarious! my same thought exactly... to make it official infomercial, he would have had to grab his lower back and attempt to stand up to infer some sort of injury with "the old way"
Well, I put one together.
I used a 3/8" 28" length of aluminum rod, with a compression fitting at the end. I then added chamois strips, with a silicone washer in between, then capped.
As Shorty said, the thing shook like hell. After a couple of seconds, the threaded cap came loose, shot off the end, and cracked the carboy. Which was just as well, since I wasn't able to get the thing back out of the neck.
Talk about an epic fail!
I like it. I'm too lazy to do the oxy soak...
In hindsight, it is. At the time, I was furious. $20 worth of materials and a $30 carboy down the crapper because I thought saving $10 was a good idea.This story is hillarious sir!!!
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