Sirbrewsalot - send me your cell again please via PM or email.
bump with update.
**newly added items 7-13-15**
1 complete kit of weldless keggle fittings. Paid approx $100 for this set in 2007. Used it about 3 times before going to welded.
Complete with hi-temp o-rings, dip tube...
Would prefer to sell as a bundle at this time.
Season of life just doesn't allow much time these days for brewing fun.
I may be back someday once the kids go to college.
So then they must push the ring tight together enough to go IN, but then they relax and make it unable to be disassembled. That makes sense.
yes, I was able to see how the wing is removed. Problem is... it's almost half the expense of a new coupling (of the standard style) so I see no...
Well, the good news is that I got it apart and I wasn't doing anything wrong.
The bad news is that I had to destroy the plastic wing section to do it.
Here's what I found inside. A small circlip in one of the probe shaft grooves that prevented it from being removed in either direction...
strange.
The clip is removed. I even removed the gas release in case it had a pin or something holding the shaft in. No dice.
Mounted the body in a vice with proper support on the pressure bearing flanges and used a brass drift turned to size for the hole and a 2 lb dead blow hammer...
Wing handle style that twists as shown here
How do I take this apart?
I've removed the c-clip and other bits, but I can't seem to find the trick to remove the liquid probe from the coupler body.
Any tips?
Do you really need a rotating ball or nozzle of any kind at the tip?
Why not just an open pipe blasting water at the top? I would think the water would spread at the top and run down the walls of carboys, cornies, and sankes enough to get the job done.
Any thoughts?
Assuming this is directed @me: None currently. But I have a newly acquired 1/6th barrel sanke that has some oxidation spots inside which might require it before going into service (and I figured I'd start flushing all the kegs with caustic at least periodically at some point.)
Right now I...
It's hard to tell from your picture.
Are you inverting the sanke with a coupler installed and simply pumping the solvent in reverse through the beer-out and then draining out the gas-in?
Do you think the sump would suffer if you ran caustic in this manner?
I've never had this much trouble before. I've leak checked and replaced poppets, o-rings, etc., and this one has me stumped.
I have those plastic red pin-lock fittings for my cornies and one of them routinely leaks and simply won't seal. It is the interface between the ID of the fitting...