There lots of the taps, called spiles, for sale on ebay. The reason is they are obsolete. The pros use the taps and vinyl tubing like you say. The old ones are for sale
I bought an enameled turkey roasting pan at walmart. it holds about 2 gallons of sap and fits exactly on my camping stove.
If 10 gallons boils down to a quart of syrup, 2 gallons boils down to a small bottle of syrup?
That’s pretty cool that its even easier than before, ain’t no cold mountains in these parts dang it.
When we were kids we would always “visit” sugar houses in
the summer, we’d always find a bottle of whiskey and a
stack of porn mags. Of course in those days porn mags
were not allowed to show anything below the waist. We had
a great time anyways.