Recent content by kpr121

I like the little charger I have for the odd-ball portable keg dispensing (camping, impromptu party at family/friends). Yes it is difficult to control the pressure (tell everyone to treat it like a typical beer tap/pump, but be light on the trigger). Yes once you tap the little co2 tank you...

Do you still have this? I would to know what shipping would cost to 15131.

That's a good point. I know I can fit five ball locks on the floor of my keezer. I'm 98% sure 5 pinlocks wont fit. I'll have to play around with that to see what configuration or combination will work. I use John Guest fittings and MFLs so swapping really wont be much of an issue. The other...

Yeah, when I say I'll 'work my way through the rest of the 26', that might take 2 months or it might take 2 years. Thinking I'd like to get through at least 15 or so which would let me gradually swap out and sell the 8 to 10 ball lock kegs I have in rotation now.

Augie- thanks for the input. I brew 10 gallon batches and might end up fermenting in these kegs (or at least using them as no-chill vessels) so I think the keg washer will be valuable in the future. I luckily had ordered 100 packs of orings a few years back for poppets, posts, and diptubes so...

Well I got three cleaned somewhat the “old fashioned” way today. It wasn’t all that bad to be honest. I did rig up a pond pump with a 1/2 inch pvc pipe, set it in a bucket with the keg inverted over it (all connections removed) and circulated some hot oxyclean while I cleaned another keg a...

pshank - awesome, simple, effective design. Love that it can be multipurposed. Cabron - You're probably right. These kegs have sat for the better part of 20 years with soda remnants in them, I suppose another couple weeks/months/years wont hurt them all that much. Clean as I need them is...

pshankstar - Thanks for input. I did see those conversion kits from AIH but that would nearly double the cost of my kegs ... I am thinking that with so many I'd be better suited to just switch over entirely to a pin lock system - that would only require replacing a half dozen or so quick...

Oh maybe I should fab up a multi-keg cleaner - pump running to a PVC manifold that has multiple stickups - each stickup spraying one keg. I could put that all inside a big Rubbermaid container (bathtub even) and knockout 4 to 6 at a time. Probably would need a pretty strong pump though...

That's a novel idea to fab something up that would spray the outsides too ... I was hoping that just allowing the inverted top of the keg soak in the cleaner would get the gunk off - there's only 3 or 4 that have really dirty side walls - it would be cheating if I didn't have to scrub anything...

Hey all, its been a while since I've posted here. Brewing kind of fell off the priority list for a couple years - Ive brewed but not with the obsession I previously had. Anyway, after spending way too much money on commercial beer my wife and I are ready to get back into the swing of things -...

If you have the room, think about an actual tub. Could pick one up for cheap at one of those reuse places.

I think if I continue to have issues with water cooling after getting the box all sealed up, I will probably scrap the whole idea and pick up a used AC unit for $25 on craigslist and mount that to the side of this box. While I don't agree that that is the more 'efficient' solution, it...

I am kicking myself for throwing away a perfectly working (albeit ugly) window AC unit when we moved a couple years ago. Do you think that just adding another heat exchanger (eliminating the reservoir and just having a closed loop system) would work well? I probably wont need this...

Good point regarding the volume, I can definitely see that as being an issue. I have two computer fans mounted to the cooler, set up the same as you (wonder where I got that idea :D), so circulation isn't the issue. I definitely think the chamber needs sealed up better. If I could only...