I just received my amazing Christmas present of a pin lock corny keg! However, it has come with the standard lid for pin locks with the static relief valve. In a lot of videos I've watched on how to keg the guy purges the oxygen that's inside the keg with the pull tab. How important is this step? How can I do it with this type of valve?
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Don't think you can with the static relief valve. What you can do is use a key or something to purge from the gas side.
The step is important. If you dont do that then you will have Oxygen in your keg which you dont want. I have something like this to purge. You just have to take off the CO2 line, put that on the poppet and purge all of the air out and repeat. Its a little annoying to keep switching back and forth but it works fine
You can use a screw driver or pen to push on the gas side poppet to vent. You can also do this with a gas QD with no hose attached.
Yeah, it's probably easier to push down the gas side poppet than to change out the relief valve. 
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