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Update: Got it set up in a temporary setup for tonight. Hinge still isn't connecting, I just lifted the lid on.

I suspect that's more up to you. The Mangrove Jack's one holds and dispenses three kegs, the Kegland one can hold and dispense four kegs. So ultimately between those two it comes down to your budget and how much you want to be able to dispense. I'd personally say more is better, if budget and...

Perhaps. Chome adds another process though (and cost), and won't make it smooth. It has to be smooth before chome plating.

Aluminum is very soft, it is very easy (so much faster) to machine and you don't wear out tooling nearly as fast as machining. Depending on the shape it can also be extruded or molded to some extent. So yes anything from aluminum will be much faster and easier to make, so it will be much cheaper...

That's not how that works. Plastic is injection molded for stuff like this, they melt plastic, shove it into a mold, in like 15-30 seconds it cools enough the mold opens and the part pops out. The mold usually makes multiple parts at the same time. Very fast, very cheap. Metal can be casted...

Depends. On a pool forum I'm a member of I see values ranging from under 100 up to around 400, but that seems to be the high end. Values of 100-200 seem to be more typical. I'm not certain but I think the pool test is measuing it the same way a brewing water test does. Note also though that...

@bracconiere since I asked if you had seen it, here's the guy who mounted 6 picnic taps on his kreezer build. Looks like he uses a stainless mudding pan as the drip tray, and if you scroll down a couple posts he shows a piece of gutter guard he covers it with. He also has a thread with build...

Interesting. At this point I'm curious in seeing if the machine shop guy at work would want to fire up the CNC mill over the weekend and crank out a bunch of stainless picnic taps so I could sell them here. :D The problem is machining stainless is a pain, the real way to do this is probably...

This is getting off topic, but you did see that guy that mounted like 8 picnic taps and then used a piece of gutter as a drip tray, right? The whole thing actually looked quite decent.

Well, I don't actually know anybody that kegs, but I only know three other people in person that brew or ferment at all, so I base my observation off my own experience plus what I see here. And while I see some picnic tap use, it's the minority. It could be that those people just don't post...

Are you sure you have the gas and liquid lines correct? If those were flipped, you'd have gas coming out and it would be bubbling though the keg as the gas would be going down the dip tube. I'm not familiar with that kit, I have 5 gallon ball lock kegs. But in that picture the angled post has...

I never said that. I said a picnic tap used in a home setting is inconvenient. Certainly if you're on the go something better than a cheap picnic tap would be nicer and more convenient. Hmm. You really think less that 20% of people that keg use real faucets? To be fair, I forgot about the use...

Probably because they are inconvenient when used in the home setting. Who wants something expensive that's inconvenient to boot? You want cool gadgets to spend your money on, not inconvenient ones. If used at home, people only use because they are cheap, or as a stepping stone until they are...

I mean, whatever floats your boat, but I don't think anything with ethanol can be considered to be probiotic. I'm not a doctor but I suspect that the negative effects of ethanol far and beyond outweigh any minor effects of small sulfite additions. Also don't the majority of sulfites leave during...

Okay, well if you want to be pedantic then that means literally everything. Oxygen can even permiate through metal, through the rate is so slow as to be negligible over even a lifetime for any appreciable thickness. PET has a much lower permiation than HDPE, glass is lower then PET (almost...

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Thanks! While I had the idea for using this PVC since pretty much after my first build, I did stumble across one person here who used it while I was looking at collars for ideas right before I started this project. But that's the only one I've seen so far. The main reason was it's unpainted...

My viewpoint is what will the degree get you, and what will the degree cost? It seems to be common thought these days that any degree is worth it and one should get a degree in anything. I strongly disagree with this viewpoint. I think a degree should lead you to a solid career that will make...