can you make a blow-off for plastic bucket?

[Todd]

This is a generic pic off the 'net, but this is what mine looks like:



http://flickr.com/photos/jdcartee/2429736856/

If you take out the rubber grommet, the whole is just a hair larger than a 3/8" ID hose. I'm not sure exactly how to wedge it in there for a tighter fit but I'll cross that bridge when it's forced upon me.

I am thinking that if you drilled our a larger hole, you could do it so that a 1" hose would fit very snuggly, and be a good blow off tube. I'd like to see pics if anyone has them too!

[6thstreetbrewer]

You can also take an airlock and cut the bottom off of it where it makes an x and simply slide a 1/2" hose over the inner tube on the air lock and run that into your blow off container. I do it whenever I use a bucket for a primary and only once have I had it clog but that was due to a blueberry getting lodge in it.