Ball Lock gas in connector won't come off

ohill1981 · Sep 22, 2011

I am new to kegging and i just put my gas in on the in line and now when i try try to get the gas line off it won't budge! I am sliding the ring up first then pulling ? has anyone had this problem ? All my other lines go off and on without a problem .

stevo155 · Sep 22, 2011

I did this once. I took the QD apart so I wouldn't screw up the pin, pull up on the ring and yanked it off.

audger · Sep 22, 2011

this usually happens when i try to jam a liquid-out connector on a gas-in post (or vice versa)...

you can take it apart, but usually i can get it to pop off eventually without doing all that.

flyhigh · Sep 22, 2011

I did the same thing when I was in a hurry to hook things up and put the in line on the out of the keg. I just made sure the sleeve was up and slowly wiggled it back and forth and not up and down. It SLOWLY worked it way off. Do no use a lot of force.

day_trippr · Sep 22, 2011

audger said:
this usually happens when i try to jam a liquid-out connector on a gas-in post (or vice versa)...[...]

The beer line post is a couple hundreths of an inch skinnier than the gas post, so the "vice versa" is never a problem to undo...

Cheers!

wolfman_48442 · Sep 23, 2011

It sounds like you might have a dry o-ring on the post. Those things can be a royal <beep> to get off if the o-ring is dry.
Once you get it off, make sure you put just a bit of lube on the o-ring. It should slide on and off like butter.

tektonjp · Sep 24, 2011

Double check you have the correct posts/nuts on the IN and OUT. The gas in post will always have some sort of groove cut into the circumference. You may have switched them when sanitizing. Happens a lot if you don't pay attention.

P-J · Sep 24, 2011

Here you go:

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