looks like i got the hind end of the spool or something, does anyone have a trick up their sleeve for making my miscreant tubing behave? ive been offered the suggestion of hanging and weighting at NB forums and i thought i would set this out here as well.
cheers,
darth
Boiling water, soak, remove, bend into any shape you like! 
Brilliant!
Yea my gawd my friends. I sometimes wish that there was a ban on selling the last end of a spool!
I have very few of these type of hoses actually. Believe it or not, I still use the exact same hose that came with my 10 year old B3 starter kit for transferring beers. I’d say that I easily have over 200 beers transferred through that silly tube.
Now, I have two new hoses though. They are hooked to a “Y” adapter so I can transfer my 10 gallons into two 5 gallon kegs at the same time. This method ended my problems with stratification.
Never thought to boil it,
Thanks for the idea.
Fred
BRILLIANT!
Thank the Beer Gods! When I read ‘curlys’ I thought some sort of nefarious hair had gotten into your racking tube!!
You just need to soak it in some near boiling water for a few minutes and then hang it up with some weight on the bottom, while it cools.
To think I’ve been battling curly siphon tubes all this time.
Actually mine usually straighten pretty well out after washing with hot water a during a few batch transfers.
thanks lonnie, thats an incredibly helpful tip. going to do the same next batch.
thank you for the great ideas; i got around to dipping them in boiling water today and it worked like a charm.
cheers,
darth
What works for me is the permenant installation of a cheap plastic bottling wand on the end of my racking set up.
It does decrease the flow rate a bit but I also like the ease at which I can lift up on the hose to stop the flow to secondary/keg if its going to overfill and then fill a few bottles or take a hydro sample w/o draining beer all over.
You sir, are a genus! It seems to me the slower flow rate would help prevent splashing/oxidation. Plus you are filling from underneath.
this is what I have done for years. Surprisese when o fond out howamy people have not thought about this option.
I use the hot water method and have a 8" length of straight copper tubing I use on one end to weigh it down and keep it in the bottom of my kegs.
That’s a great idea Lonnie. I’ll try that sometime.
I have always used very hot water which works pretty well.
I do this as well and it works fine. It will always end up with a slight curve to it.