BadNewsBrewery
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I have 3 Perlick 575SS faucets (the 'fancy' ones with the creamer feature).
On one specific faucet, I get foam for the first second or two, every pour. This isn't the "warm beer" foam you sometimes get, because it'll do it on every pint, even if I pour 3 or 4 back to back. Interestingly enough, it also won't allow me to push back against the handle to get the creamer feature to work.
I fully disassembled all 3 faucets after pushing a warm water / PBW mix through all of them. Cleaned all the parts and reassembled - no change. Thinking that there was a chance that maybe I happened to put the exact parts back into the faucet as I had taken out, I swapped the internals with a faucet that I confirmed worked fine (no foam, creamer worked great). The one that used to work kept working, despite the different internals. The one that wasn't working didn't start working, despite having internals from a working tap.
Conclusion: Something with the housing of the faucet is screwy.
The problem - the housing is a pretty simple piece of metal with an O-Ring in it. Doesn't seem like there's something to break (the faucet USED to work as designed).
Any thoughts on what to look at for troubleshooting? Doesn't seem like the problem should be with the faucet and not the internals. I've checked the hosing and there aren't any kinks or anything wacky like that, at least not that I can see.
-Kevin
On one specific faucet, I get foam for the first second or two, every pour. This isn't the "warm beer" foam you sometimes get, because it'll do it on every pint, even if I pour 3 or 4 back to back. Interestingly enough, it also won't allow me to push back against the handle to get the creamer feature to work.
I fully disassembled all 3 faucets after pushing a warm water / PBW mix through all of them. Cleaned all the parts and reassembled - no change. Thinking that there was a chance that maybe I happened to put the exact parts back into the faucet as I had taken out, I swapped the internals with a faucet that I confirmed worked fine (no foam, creamer worked great). The one that used to work kept working, despite the different internals. The one that wasn't working didn't start working, despite having internals from a working tap.
Conclusion: Something with the housing of the faucet is screwy.
The problem - the housing is a pretty simple piece of metal with an O-Ring in it. Doesn't seem like there's something to break (the faucet USED to work as designed).
Any thoughts on what to look at for troubleshooting? Doesn't seem like the problem should be with the faucet and not the internals. I've checked the hosing and there aren't any kinks or anything wacky like that, at least not that I can see.
-Kevin