Can I disable the pressure relief valve in my pinlock keg lids?

[The_Bishop]

More like: Preventing someone from reading bad advice and hurting themselves.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

More like: Preventing someone from reading bad advice and hurting themselves.

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[william_shakes_beer]

Just my nitty opinion but it's not a good idea to remove/disable relief valves on pressure vessels. True that we homebrewers almost never get up to even half the relief pressure of 130 psig but it's still bad practice.

While you could install relief valves elsewhere in the system that's not really a good idea either...because it has to be connected to the system in order to have relief protection. The tank itself needs the relief valve.

I only have two Coke pin-locks and both have relief valves built into the lids...they just don't have the manual release lever/poppet. It's a different type of relief valve. No tank should be without a relief valve.

Just my opinion. 'No relief valve' works until it doesn't.

don't worry, if the keg doesn't have a PRV, it'll make its own

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