What I hope this does is incite ideas in heads; there are many ways to do a rinser, this just works with my setup.
I looked at many rinsers, including the InstaRinse portable glass rinser. But I saw some reviews and the plastic elements of this device left me unconvinced. So I decided to go a different route.
I looked around for rinsers, there is a bunch. I ended up choosing this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056HR7M6/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 It had the best reviews, and I decided to pull the trigger. It arrived today. I was shocked at how heavy the box was; this is a heavy-duty piece of equipment. Everything about it says "long lasting."
All I needed to do was find a way to mount it to the side of the keezer (see pics), feed it with water and provide a drain. The flange that extends from the rinser is intended to be mounted under a counter; I wish they had a version with a vertical mounting mechanism. I've read about at least one person bending that flange down. But in my case this will work.
I don't have an easy way to provide tap water to it, so I searched for other options. I have a small 1.5-gallon torpedo keg; I thought it would come in handy for a lot of things, but alas, it hasn't. But it can be a water reservoir! I also have a couple small regulators and 2.5-pound CO2 tanks; I thought, "I can push that water using CO2."
The drain line is perfect for a piece of 1/2" silicone tubing; for now I have it draining into a gallon jug. The feed to the rinser is a small barb, I think 3/8" od, it fit just fine with some tubing I had. All the pieces in place, just put 'em together.
The pics show how it is set up. I have the pressure set about 15psi, seems to be about right. YMMV.
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When you add up the pieces, it's more than the cost of the InstaRinse. That uses a pump to provide water, and at one level that's pretty clever. But I also wanted a rinser that would let me transition to a bar at some point, and this is the real deal.
Obviously, one could pull a line off a normal regulator and feed the keg with that. Also, this strikes me as the perfect application for a pinlock keg that otherwise we wouldn't use as much. So the costs could have been much less.
I will do some things to make it cosmetically better-looking, build a facade around the bottom of the rinser, things like that. But for now, it works.
So....maybe this gives someone an idea.
Goose
I looked at many rinsers, including the InstaRinse portable glass rinser. But I saw some reviews and the plastic elements of this device left me unconvinced. So I decided to go a different route.
I looked around for rinsers, there is a bunch. I ended up choosing this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056HR7M6/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 It had the best reviews, and I decided to pull the trigger. It arrived today. I was shocked at how heavy the box was; this is a heavy-duty piece of equipment. Everything about it says "long lasting."
All I needed to do was find a way to mount it to the side of the keezer (see pics), feed it with water and provide a drain. The flange that extends from the rinser is intended to be mounted under a counter; I wish they had a version with a vertical mounting mechanism. I've read about at least one person bending that flange down. But in my case this will work.
I don't have an easy way to provide tap water to it, so I searched for other options. I have a small 1.5-gallon torpedo keg; I thought it would come in handy for a lot of things, but alas, it hasn't. But it can be a water reservoir! I also have a couple small regulators and 2.5-pound CO2 tanks; I thought, "I can push that water using CO2."
The drain line is perfect for a piece of 1/2" silicone tubing; for now I have it draining into a gallon jug. The feed to the rinser is a small barb, I think 3/8" od, it fit just fine with some tubing I had. All the pieces in place, just put 'em together.
The pics show how it is set up. I have the pressure set about 15psi, seems to be about right. YMMV.
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When you add up the pieces, it's more than the cost of the InstaRinse. That uses a pump to provide water, and at one level that's pretty clever. But I also wanted a rinser that would let me transition to a bar at some point, and this is the real deal.
Obviously, one could pull a line off a normal regulator and feed the keg with that. Also, this strikes me as the perfect application for a pinlock keg that otherwise we wouldn't use as much. So the costs could have been much less.
I will do some things to make it cosmetically better-looking, build a facade around the bottom of the rinser, things like that. But for now, it works.
So....maybe this gives someone an idea.
Goose
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