I bought a new two tap tower and it came with 4 feet beer line. I want to switch it out with 10 feet of line. To do that I need to take the shanks off the tower but I don't have a wrench big enough to remove the nuts on the shanks. Anybody know what size wrench will work?
Need help with a shank nut size
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I don't have a tower but I've got taps on my fridge, the shank nut size on them is 1-1/16" but I'm really not sure they are the same nuts. 12" adjustable works well on them though! lol
good luck
good luck
I hear there's 1-1/16th and a regular 1 inch nut. I have two elbow shanks from different manufacturers, bought years apart, and they both use 1-1/16th.
Saw/dremel a quarter of a round wrench (errr...terrible description...) and you can slip it over the lines to unscrew/screw while everything's attached.
I don't have room in my tower to fit a regular wrench in there.
Saw/dremel a quarter of a round wrench (errr...terrible description...) and you can slip it over the lines to unscrew/screw while everything's attached.
I don't have room in my tower to fit a regular wrench in there.
Thanks guys but I need an open end wrench. There is no way to slip a wrench over the tubing, and I tries an adjustable wrench. It didn't work.
Guess I'll head over to Harbor Freight and see what they have.
Guess I'll head over to Harbor Freight and see what they have.
Yep there you go, same as me. I bought an $11 1-1/16th open end wrench and dremel'd off 1/4 of it on the side, allowing me to slip it over the tubing. Found the idea for that on HBT somewhere, think it might be a common problem 
Get the cheapest weakest metal wrench you can find, dollar store style...even that $11 wrench was ridiculously hard to cut.
Get the cheapest weakest metal wrench you can find, dollar store style...even that $11 wrench was ridiculously hard to cut.
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