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Pakistan, Islamabad
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Review on 🧪 Fermtech FastRack Mini Auto-Siphon with 6 Foot Tubing & Clamp - Clear, 1 Piece by Evan Beougher

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Big, clumsy, spilling, slow, whatever.

Everything is fine. Best of all, it just starts to pump slightly, and that's the whole point. Although everything else - mda. What I mean? It's a bit awkward. It is large and stretches very far when inflated. The hose is spun in circles and is constantly spinning unless you push it deep into the container you are draining the water into (because the end of the hose rises with each inflation). The clips on the side are a bit lame and only hold in one place, so the hose can also slip too easily. Functionally everything is fine. That's fine for filtering really big chunks out of the siphon, but there's still a lot going through the small cup in the end. The cup also holds extra liquid when you remove the siphon from the source container and it tends to squirt out which is really annoying. It also doesn't pump very well because it doesn't really seal completely. This means that if you stop the siphon midway down the jug, you'll never be able to suck any more liquid down the keg except to the level of the juice. Basically, no vacuum is created when pulling up, so you can't restart a partial pump siphon. There is also no easy way to stop the siphon other than lifting the hose which is squirting everywhere. It also drains very slowly for some reason. sooo The moral of the story is that it's easier to just pour the juice in or make a hand held siphon with a strainer/filter on the other end to move the liquid. Or buy an electric pump. This kind of intermediate tool just isn't very good. Technically it works, it just has a lot of flaws and I'll probably just throw it away.

Pros
  • Few competitors
Cons
  • Poor instructions