Here is the equipment you will need for racking: 1  Your jug of hard cider. 2  A second, clean sterile and empty glass jug (this is your âsecondaryâ jug) or clean sterile food grade plastic pail. 3  4-6 feet of food grade tubing.  Optional: A lock for the end of the tubing so that you can stop the flow without loosing suction.
Mineral oil is a mixture of complex hydrocarbons, mainly cyclic paraffins and alkanes (ideally 15 to 40 percent carbons). Mineral oil is chemically the same as petroleum jelly or white mineral oil, except it is liquid petroleum which makes it an ideal choice for several applications.
I think, there are may be a slight differences between mineral oil and paraffin oil. Actually, paraffin oil is a kind of mineral oil in broad scene. There are three basic classes of refined mineral oils: A mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of alkanes in the C15 to C40 .