kegs can't keep pressure

[BrewManRon]

Can anyone help me with why the keg on the right of oicture wont hold pressure? Is it a special keg? Goofy fittings or something?

 

[reinstone]

Spray some soapy water on it and find where the leak is. Then report back. I'm an expert in leaky kegs.

 

[day_trippr]

The keg on the right appears to be a conversion from pin-lock to ball-lock, but otherwise it looks like any other keg.

Gas it up and dunk the business end in a big bucket of water. That'll make it easy to find where the leak is. Could be the lid gasket, could be the PRV, could be a poppet, could be a bad o-ring under a post, even could be a pin hole in the body or a weld line gone bad...

Cheers!

 

[mikescooling]

My o-ring's on the poppet's are always giving me problems on all my kegs.

 

[BrewManRon]

I am pretty sure that it is from the poppets. could it be that I have the "wrong" poppets for the valves? I am sure I bought new valves last year and haven't used the kegs since.

 

[November]

Put it on gas and spray star San on the top. It will bubble out the leak. If it is coming from the lid, try putting keg lube on it.

 

[Clonefan94]

Soapy water and pressure. That will tell you where the leak is.

 

[kerant]

Just started kegging and noticed that as keg gets emptied I need to adjust the pressure up a tad. Wouldn't this be normal?

 

[reinstone]

Just started kegging and noticed that as keg gets emptied I need to adjust the pressure up a tad. Wouldn't this be normal?

What psi are you pouring at?

 

[kerant]

what psi are you pouring at?

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