Cheesy_Goodness
Well-Known Member
I'm at my wits end here. I've got a co2 leak...somewhere. No idea where it is though.
I knew I had a problem so last weekend I took out all my kegs and replaced a few bad poppets and all of the o-rings, lubed up for good measure. Pressure tested them all with the starsan water test and everything came back clean.
I thought that was going to be the end of it but the next day when I went to check on everything there was a faint but still very present co2 smell/nose-burning sensation when I opened up the kegerator. Well I know my kegs are good because I JUST checked them so it has to be before it even gets to the keg. Surely.
My keg is outside of the keezer so disconnected everything and took all of my tubing/disconnects/manifolds out of the kegerator and dunked it in a bucket of soapy water. Turned on the gas at serving pressure and...nothing. Not a single bubble. So I took everything out of the water and let it dry for a day or two before putting everything back together and going back to the drawing board. I kept everything hooked up to the tank but turned the gas off. That was on Sunday.
I checked it on Monday (yesterday), still holding pressure, no change on any of the dials. I checked it Tuesday (today) and wouldn't you know it, all of my gauges showed 0!
That tells me I've got a leak in my tubing/manifolds/disconnects somewhere but it's very small. I'm at a loss as to to how to fix it since I can't find the $%^#&%* thing.
My next step is to take everything a part and reassemble but I don't know if that's actually going to fix anything.
Anything in particular I should be looking for when I put it all back together?
I knew I had a problem so last weekend I took out all my kegs and replaced a few bad poppets and all of the o-rings, lubed up for good measure. Pressure tested them all with the starsan water test and everything came back clean.
I thought that was going to be the end of it but the next day when I went to check on everything there was a faint but still very present co2 smell/nose-burning sensation when I opened up the kegerator. Well I know my kegs are good because I JUST checked them so it has to be before it even gets to the keg. Surely.
My keg is outside of the keezer so disconnected everything and took all of my tubing/disconnects/manifolds out of the kegerator and dunked it in a bucket of soapy water. Turned on the gas at serving pressure and...nothing. Not a single bubble. So I took everything out of the water and let it dry for a day or two before putting everything back together and going back to the drawing board. I kept everything hooked up to the tank but turned the gas off. That was on Sunday.
I checked it on Monday (yesterday), still holding pressure, no change on any of the dials. I checked it Tuesday (today) and wouldn't you know it, all of my gauges showed 0!
That tells me I've got a leak in my tubing/manifolds/disconnects somewhere but it's very small. I'm at a loss as to to how to fix it since I can't find the $%^#&%* thing.
My next step is to take everything a part and reassemble but I don't know if that's actually going to fix anything.
Anything in particular I should be looking for when I put it all back together?