Simple equipment failure

[danno]

Last night I needed to fill so 1#ers.  I have 3 full 6 gal pails with the plastic honey gates on them in my basement  As I finished filling the first bottle I shut that gate and tightened the PLASTIC thumb screw.  Well it broke.  I had 60#s of honey in the bucket with a broken valve.  By squeezing the valve shut I could stop the flow.  Luckly my wife was home and heard me yelling.  She got a new clean bucket from the honey house so I could let go and drain.  I went to the hardware store and bought steal thumb screws to replace all my plastic ones.  Looking in my cataloges I see they are available for the gates for .65ea   Dont let this happen to you.

[JP]

Good job at avoiding a near disaster. The other day I didn't close the gate all the way and had about a lb and a half of honey spill out onto the kitchen floor which my dogs lapped up, one in fact too much! He tossed his cookies twice!


...JP

[Irwin]

Good job at avoiding a near disaster. The other day I didn't close the gate all the way and had about a lb and a half of honey spill out onto the kitchen floor which my dogs lapped up, one in fact too much! He tossed his cookies twice!


...JP

Are you sure they didn't turn it back on :-D

[JP]

If he could open the gate he would, this I am certain of!


...JP

[handymandave]

Good advice! I will change mine now, before it breaks.  ;)