BillyRaygun
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Have a MicroMatic dual gage regulator. I got beer in it. Poured right out of it. What can I do to fix it?
Have a MicroMatic dual gage regulator. I got beer in it. Poured right out of it. What can I do to fix it?
granpooba19 said:Ah, my mistake . . . I thought it had gone into the gauges
Rinse it out with a spray bottle of plain water by shooting it into the orfice the beer went in, then let it set open to the air for a few days. I speak from experience
granpooba19 said:I can't speak from experience, but I guess if spraying water into the orifice where the beer went into won't get into the gauges, that would work, I would see if others weigh in before trying anything
Bensiff said:Yeah, its pretty easy to get back flow if you aren't paying attention. Good thing is that the regs are pretty easy to clean, really nothing to be scared of like people want you to be. Just unscrew the main cap, clean out the inside and put it back together again. You may have to replace a gasket or o-ring if they are buggered up. Just use this diagram under the "replacement parts" tab:
http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/regulators-pid-642-Battery.html
The positive of all this is that I am much more familiar with my equipment. More so then I probably would have ever thought I would need.
It was a stupid mistake on my part. I wanted to carbonate the beer while conditioning a couple weeks in the keg so I connected the gas line. But I connected the gas to the wrong post. As I was thinking about the force needed to make the connection, I didn't remember it being that hard to connect. So I knew I did something wrong. And being this is only the second time I kegged, I just wasn't familiar enough with my equipment to recognize my mistake at the time.
Getting the connector on the post was harder then normal, but not near as hard as it was to get it off. In the process of trying to disconnect the gas line, I turned off the gas at the tank because my connection was half on, half off due to my situation - gas and beer was spraying out at the connection. At the same time, I forgot to close the valve just before the regulator. So you are right, pressure was higher in the keg. This is why the beer flowed backwards.
I since compared posts more closely trying to familiarize myself more with the force required to connect and disconnect lines from each post. Bottom line, multiple things went wrong and could have easily been avoided if I just slowed down, focused and was more familiar with my equipment.
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