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Thanks, all! I'm glad to hear that everyone else leaves the CO2 on as well. I will just continue checking for leaks as normal and leave the gas on. Hopefully that is enough to find any leaks that may develop in the future before they create a mess.

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What mess?

We are talking about the possibility of losing the bottle of CO2 due to a lid or pressure relief valve not sealing, or a gas line or QD not being secure.

Liquid side leaks will come from not having clamps at connections or the clamps not being tight.

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I just reread this thread and I'm pretty sure we are talking about liquid side leaks not CO2 leaks

In addition to failed hose clamps, a liquid side leak could also come from a failed poppet or quick disconnect on the liquid side. This is what I was wondering about. I am not worried about leaks in the beer lines as I have clamps tightly secured on all connections.

A faucet could leak and cause a keg to be dispensed as well but I'm not worried about that since my perlicks are newer and I have never heard of someone having a problem with them leaking.

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Yes, plus liquid side leaks would eventually drain your CO2 tank..... once all the beer has been dumped on the floor.

I think the thread is kinda about both, liquid or gas side. Either way, just check connections, and for the love of god, double check the liquid side connections. CO2 is easy to fill, beer is a little harder to make, clean up, age.... I will be very sad when (not if) I manage to get a liquid side leak....

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I have my sparkling water keg at 35psi 24/7/365, and it's never leaked a bit. 10psi for beer shouldn't be a problem. I've never had a leak on the liquid side. Sometimes I find badly-seated gas poppets, but that's only an issue when the disconnects aren't hooked up. So I'd say, just be careful if you're burst-carbing your kegs and then taking them out of the fridge and storing them somewhere (that's what I do). If there's a badly-seated poppet on the liquid side, then yeah, you could get a leak. So don't store those kegs in a place where the floor gets ruined. But even if you do have a problem poppet, it still should not leak if you have the disconnects hooked up.

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I had a problem with the thin ring gasket at the top of one of my liquid QD's and lost about 4 gallons of beer into the kegger. It wasn't leaking when I attached it but it developed over night. Here's the thing though, even if you turned the gas off (assuming you were fully carbed at that point), you'd still lose 1-2 gallons before the pressure couldn't push the beer anymore.

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throw a sanatized picnic line on there, if there is a leak on the liquid QD, it has nowhere to go.... I have done this since my first keg leaked out a gal of beer.
that is exactly what happened to me. turned off the gas at 30PSI while it chilled overnight, came back to a depressurized keg and a gal of beer that needed to be cleaned of the floor of the keezer.

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It might be good to just schedule replacing the O-rings every year or two even if they don't look worn. They arn't expensive.

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I left the CO2 on for years, even with three regulators. But, since the last kegger rebuild, there's a leak I cannot find. I think it's in one of the gauges. So, I shut the gas off.

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All of my kegs have labels on them to tell when the seal replacements were completed.