Stuck Gas Side Post - Help!

Joeywhat · 11-22-2009, 07:09 PM

Got a few cornies the other day and am trying to clean them. However one of the posts will NOT come off! I unthreaded it about a full turn or so then it got stuck. I've got a nice, long wrench for leverage and the bastage just won't budge. Every other one came off with minimal effort.

So what can I do here?

Joeywhat · 11-22-2009, 07:34 PM

Well I finally got it off...I think I've had easier times trying to get seized caliper bolts of my car before

But the post is FUBAR. I don't know what happened to it...guy must've cross threaded it or something. Threads are absolutely destroyed on both the connection post and the post that threads onto (that's attached to the keg).

Any way to fix this for a reasonable amount of money, or is this keg officially a decoration?

**Sea** · 11-22-2009, 07:37 PM

Unless you can find someone to weld a new post on the keg (probably more money than replacement), it's toast. Stainless galls very easily if there's a small bur on the threads, or if it's been cross threaded, and once it starts to rip the metal, you're in trouble.

Joeywhat · 11-22-2009, 09:16 PM

Well I guess all isn't lost...I got a free keg from my uncle (works for Pepsi) however it didn't come with ANY hardware save for the lid. So I can transfer all the working parts from this newely FUBAR'd keg and buy a single gas post to finish it off.

I'll make a table or something out of the other keg...maybe paint it up real nice or something.

chefmike · 11-22-2009, 09:18 PM

how about using it as a fermenter?3

**Sea** · 11-22-2009, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by chefmike

how about using it as a fermenter?3

Could do that, but the advantage of fermenting in a corny is using gas to transfer, without that, it's no different than a carboy. I guess you could find a way to seal the bad post (use it for an airlock during fermentation), and make a gas inlet that fit in the prv port, but that'd be a PITA.

mitch171 · 11-23-2009, 12:53 AM

Epoxy to seal it? I use some 10 gal kegs that I can't find fitting for the posts for fermenting wine. I stretch drilled stoppers over the posts and put air lock in them.