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Different sizes of spigot and bottle filler.

Hello everyone, I racked my first homebrew to the 2nd stage fermenter today. While in the process of transfer, I was looking at my bottling bucket. My bottling bucket has, what I believe to be, a 5/8th inch spigot at the bottom. I also have my bottle filler, which fits on the end of a 5/16th inch hose. I guess I was so excited to brew my first beer; I started purchasing supplies left and right and I didn't think about the two not fitting together. Whoops. So far this is the only problem I have ran into. I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions? I would like to use the bottle filler in combination with the spigot at the bottom of my bottling bucket. But if I have to, I'll use the siphon method.

Thanks for any help! Ryan

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Ryan R. McGuire
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Im not sure if I understand exactly what the problem is, but I had a similar problem (I think) with the spigot on my fermenter. I had a length of clear plastic hose which slips over the end of the bottle filler, the other end of the plastic hose is exactly the same size as the spigot. After asking at my home brew shop, where they informed me that it was not possible to attach the hose to the spigot!! I realised that if I cut an inch off the end of the bottle filler, and stuck that in the spigot, the hose would fit perfectly. Which it did. Hope this helps

Gregg

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sandon447

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