Cleaning March pumps

[brewdoc]

BB- that looks good enough for me- I’ll stick with the PBW (as I just stocked up on it recently), but follow that with some clean hot water to rinse out any residual before storage. Thanks again to all for the responses.

[cramer]

@Brewbeer22

All I’ve ever done to keep it clean in the 8 years I’ve had mine was to run hot water through it for about 10 minutes at the end of each brewing cycle. I took the head apart about two years ago and there was no buildup whatsoever. I have no plans to run a cleaner through the pump or take it apart ever again. My pump only ever moves mash/sparge water and sweet liquor and never sees post boil wort, so keeping it spotless is not really necessary to me.

Same here, but my pump DOES move post boil wort while chilling and also I pump it to my fermenter. No contamination after many years and hundreds of gallons brewed. I do run hot wort through it for about 3 minutes at flame out before I turn on the chill water.

[baratone_brewer]

@brewdoc

BB- that looks good enough for me- I’ll stick with the PBW (as I just stocked up on it recently), but follow that with some clean hot water to rinse out any residual before storage. Thanks again to all for the responses.

Yeah, give it a good hot water rinse after the PBW. I hook my CFC to one of my pumps and circulate the solution of PBW through both. Then give them a good rinse.

[dean_palmer]

I also run hot PBW through my pumps and whole system regularly and the pumps and seals are like new after several years. Everything gets rinsed well afterwards no matter what.