Changing lines on dual tower

Anyone have any tips or tricks for doing this?

A regular wrench will not fit due to the faucets being too close together.

Mine just have a hose clamp holding the tubing on a barbed fitting.

Mine have the hose clamp too, but they are attached to the shank and angled tail piece.

Cannot reach without taking it apart.

Ahh....yeah, mine doesn't have the angled tail piece. Can you back the nut off?

I could if I had a wrenck or tool to fit between. That is the problem.

I had an absolute ***** of a time putting mine together. The only way I found to tighten/loosen those damn things was to use needle nosed pliers and just force it. If you put enough pressure on them the teeth will have enough traction for you to turn the nut.

I never. Ever. want to have to change my beer lines.

Maybe once I get it apart, I will change the tail pice to a barb to make my life easier in the future.

You can unscrew the nut by holding a chisel on the edge of the nut and hitting it with a hammer, and spinning it off that way. Or buy the special wrench they make for this purpose.

JRems said:

You can unscrew the nut by holding a chisel on the edge of the nut and hitting it with a hammer, and spinning it off that way. Or buy the special wrench they make for this purpose.

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Do you maybe have a link to a wrench like that? I've never seen one!

ne0t0ky0 said:

http://stores.kegconnection.com/Detail.bok?no=167

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Thanks that's awesome. Wish I'd seen this, I just got the plain old faucet wrench!

I saw that too but did not know if it would fit.

May be worth the $10 to see.

I also use needle nose pliers. They work pretty well if you have a good grip. You just need to break the nut loose then you should be able to take it off by hand.

The complicated part is putting it back together. You have to plan several steps ahead or you might find yourself taking it apart again.

Don't worry, you're not the first one to be frustrated by this. I might have to plan ahead and buy that special wrench for next time. The problem with brewing is there are always so many cool tools to buy. Gets expensive.

I received an email from Ben @ kegconnection.

He informed me the tool in questions was pretty much designed for this purpose.

Looks like I found my next purchase.

Buy a 1 and 1/16th (forgive the terminology) 'round end' wrench, you know what I mean...and dremel cut a section from it so the round end that has all the wrenchy knobby thingies on it becomes a "C" shape, instead of an "O" shape. You can then fit that over your lines and snug it right around the nut. Buy the cheapest wrench available, and take your time cutting, it took a while

Works though, so long as you have the 1/8 inch room beside the nuts to snug up the wrench. There is a thread showing it, I did it, worked great, can't find it currently...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cu...val-tool-1-wrench-dremel-all-you-need-176265/

Bam there it is, genius!

The keg connection one also is a faucet wrench too. Great price for 3 wrenches.