Help my lid broke

[adamprocter]

So I was setting up my kit again getting it all sterilised but my lid for 25L youngs barrel just snapped apart (the plastic had got brittle) BUT I have already got all my stuff ready to go and I am really not up for spending £6 postage for a £2 lid. What alternative options do I have. Would a cloth top sealed with rubber bands be enough. Or should I try and use some other type of lid. Or do I just have to bite the bullet and swallow the postage costs

 

[Clint]

Barrel as pressure barrel or is it your fermentation bucket lid that's bust?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Would a cloth top sealed with rubber bands be enough.

Cling film has been used by many members in the past.

As Bigcol says, I have been using cling film (plus a big elastic band) to cover my FV's for a few years now. No pin hole needed as the C02 finds a way to escape. You get the added bonus of being able to look into your FV anytime you like without fear of contamination

 

[RichardM]

If it's a fermentation bucket then tea towel, cling film orkitchen foil will do

 

[adamprocter]

It’s a Youngs plastic bucket (25L) just the lid broke not the bucket

 

[adamprocter]

Cling film sounds like a plan until I do another order of stuff I’ll get a new lid then

 

[Clint]

Is it completely busted in half? If not I'd cling film the bucket,might be easier to do the lid, then poke a hole for the airlock. Spray everything with sanitiser. Then push the lid on. Or being me..I'd fix the lid from the outside with duct tape until I could get another.

 

[MashBag]

Anything that fits.

 

[MashBag]

 

[adamprocter]

Classic thanks all. I have used cling film and rubber bands. This is the brew I am attempting to make. 5 days until adding hops and only 10 days to Sterilise all my bottles.

 

[adamprocter]

Is it completely busted in half? If not I'd cling film the bucket,might be easier to do the lid, then poke a hole for the airlock. Spray everything with sanitiser. Then push the lid on. Or being me..I'd fix the lid from the outside with duct tape until I could get another.

No just the lid broke not the bucket. All good

 

[adamprocter]

 

[MashBag]

Question? It the lids gone, has the bucket had too much sun as well?

Be gentle with it this time and then once it's clean give it damn good test

 

[adamprocter]

Indeed the bucket seems good the lid was a different plastic and was brittle