Ok folks Ive been working on something for a few days and now its time to share it with you all. I have wanted to start kegging my beer and have found a way to hack a commercial beer keg. This will save you big money. Heres what I did, I took the empty keg from my kegerator and with a dish towel and a flat head screwdriver over the steel compression ball and gently released the remaining C02. Now that its empty take a smaller flat head screwdriver and remove the flat spring/compression snap ring, its very easy. Now with a bigger flat head screwdriver and a hammer, gently tape on the locking tabs youre your keg head fits. Now simply remove the components and sanitize, fill with your beer and reverse the process to reinstall everything, replacing the steel ring can be a little trickyer than getting it out but with a little patients youll get it. Now to carbonate the beer, simply set your kegerator Co2 tank regulator to 35-40 psi when it stops filling bleed the tank to remove the Oxygen and wait 36-48 hours lower Co2 back to your working psi about 8-10 and enjoy your beer. Below is a video I found on how to hack a beer keg the quality is not great but, it works as a great visual of what I just described. I saved myself about $225 in new kegging equipment doing this and it works great!!!
http://youtu.be/EMHS-Uz9bEM
http://youtu.be/EMHS-Uz9bEM