Re:Blood Sucker

I had a simillair experience this past weekend.

When trying to seal up a small rib roast, the vacuum from the snorkel was very weak. My wife noticed that there appeared to be something in the snorkel. Using a sewing needle, we discoverd small peices of dried meat in the snorkel. YUK.

I was able to clean out the snorkel using a flat headed dental tool and removed quite a bit of dried material. I then removed the plastic cap from the back of the sealer exposing the back end of the snorkel. i removed the plastic cap and cleaned out the inside of the snorkel and disenfiected the sorkel.

This returned the vacuuum to full suction. However with the vacuum running like a champ I noticed fluid comming from the drain holes underneath the Sinbo sealer. It had a rancid ordor. Not good.

I opened up the Sinbo unit and removed the diaphrams off the pumps. Sure enough there was a small amount of fluid trapped inside the pump. I cleaned the pumps out using cotten swabs dipped in IP alcohol and then a Listernine rinse ( I didn’t want the alchohol to dry out the rubber diaphrams).

I then ran the pumps for several minutes to draw any moisture out of the pumps and through the drain tubes. The unit is now clean and running well but what a pain. :angry:

Jason, my firewall wont allow me to your site to see exactly what you did to clean the blood from inside your Sinbo. Do you mind giveing me a brief description of what you did?

I love the Drybag system and have recomended it to many folks. However I really wish the Sinbo sealer unit was easier to use. Between wrestling with the snorkel from collasping the bag and now this fluid and material in the unit, ARRRGH.