Opened up my kegerator last night to find a frozen co2 bottle...
I am immensely frustrated and am hoping for some suggestions.
The common advice I've encountered here is to spray every part of your system with soap water and the leak will present itself. I have tried this many times. I sat there with my brewing buddy and we meticulously sprayed every angle of every part, from the regulator to the faucet shank.
First lesson was that regulators need to be screwed on TIGHT w/ a new o ring each time
Then found a crack in the back of my co2 regulator
Now I don't know what to guess and I've gone through 2 more tanks.
Can quick disconnects or keg posts leak? Suspecting they can, I have doused them in soap water and have not seen anything. Neither has my buddy.
One of my kegs has some loose rubber on the top - when I pull up on one of the handles it moves every so slightly... could this be it? I've sprayed around there and no bubbles.
At this point I want to just dunk everything in a big bucket of water and see if I can identify it that way, but I'm worried about damaging equipment.
Spraying soapy water seems very straightforward and is a widely used technique to identify the leak. We take our time looking at each piece as we slowly move down the system looking for the leak. So why can't we find it?
I am immensely frustrated and am hoping for some suggestions.
The common advice I've encountered here is to spray every part of your system with soap water and the leak will present itself. I have tried this many times. I sat there with my brewing buddy and we meticulously sprayed every angle of every part, from the regulator to the faucet shank.
First lesson was that regulators need to be screwed on TIGHT w/ a new o ring each time
Then found a crack in the back of my co2 regulator
Now I don't know what to guess and I've gone through 2 more tanks.
Can quick disconnects or keg posts leak? Suspecting they can, I have doused them in soap water and have not seen anything. Neither has my buddy.
One of my kegs has some loose rubber on the top - when I pull up on one of the handles it moves every so slightly... could this be it? I've sprayed around there and no bubbles.
At this point I want to just dunk everything in a big bucket of water and see if I can identify it that way, but I'm worried about damaging equipment.
Spraying soapy water seems very straightforward and is a widely used technique to identify the leak. We take our time looking at each piece as we slowly move down the system looking for the leak. So why can't we find it?