Carboy Cleaner

[DakotaRules]

What dip tube?

Exactly, in order to use this drill attachment you have to disassemble the corney keg. With the buckets we've made it's a clean in place type of bucket where the cleaner is pushed through the dip tube and the air lock tube.

I think this would be great for a once in while deep clean but not if your using your kegs more frequently.

 

[shelly_belly]

This is my carboy cleaner!

Looking good. I like the use of the carboy dryer. I have one of those sitting around not getting used. Now I know what to do with it. Thumbs up!

 

[DakotaRules]

Looking good. I like the use of the carboy dryer. I have one of those sitting around not getting used. Now I know what to do with it. Thumbs up!

You should also check out my Carboy crates, they have the dryer in them also. I use the dryers all the time.

 

[gunner65]

Nice build but I will stick to the brush simple and quick (for me) and only 7.99 invested.

 

[slakwhere]

Dakota, thanks for the inspiration. i took this idea and ran with it. stole the camlock bits off my MLT and Keggle so i need to order replacements andgrab the proper attachments for the keg posts but it's all set for carboys!

i went with a bulkhead/ball valve on the bottom because i wasn't sure how you were priming your pump with both input and output above the water line...

and when i went to the OrangeBox store i ran into a guy sitting on the ground with a 10 gal orange cooler, a page out of a homebrew book and a stack of fittings. helped him get his MLT built for his first AG tomorrow!

 

[EarthBound]

Exactly, in order to use this drill attachment you have to disassemble the corney keg. With the buckets we've made it's a clean in place type of bucket where the cleaner is pushed through the dip tube and the air lock tube.

I think this would be great for a once in while deep clean but not if your using your kegs more frequently.

Lol... the name of this thread is carboy cleaner, not carboy/corny cleaner. Good luck with your corny cleaner project, buddy.

Disassembly takes a minute or two. With the time it takes to set your cleaner-thingy up, I'll clean two corny kegs!

 

[DakotaRules]

Lol... the name of this thread is carboy cleaner, not carboy/corny cleaner. Good luck with your corny cleaner project, buddy.

Disassembly takes a minute or two. With the time it takes to set your cleaner-thingy up, I'll clean two corny kegs!

To each there own.

I like mine, you like yours, were both happy.

 

[DakotaRules]

Dakota, thanks for the inspiration. i took this idea and ran with it. stole the camlock bits off my MLT and Keggle so i need to order replacements andgrab the proper attachments for the keg posts but it's all set for carboys!

i went with a bulkhead/ball valve on the bottom because i wasn't sure how you were priming your pump with both input and output above the water line...

and when i went to the OrangeBox store i ran into a guy sitting on the ground with a 10 gal orange cooler, a page out of a homebrew book and a stack of fittings. helped him get his MLT built for his first AG tomorrow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5E_kMyTueA

I prime it by pouring cleaner in the hoses before i attach them to the bucket.
I am thinking that i my put a bulkhead on the bottom to make it easier but i didn't have an extra 1/2" one sitting around I only have 3/8". Ill probably run the ball lock hoses through the the extra hole in the top. I always run into new homebrewers in the plumbing isle at HD, I always try to help!

 

[agentbud]

Ok, I have seen similar style carboy/keg cleaners on the internet but they all seem to just shoot water out the top of the pipe and let that water run down the inside to clean the rest. Has anyone tackled trying to put together a sprayer tube that has jets from top to bottom and spins using a water tight bearing (similar to those tall water sprinklers). I know the fit would be tight into the opening of the carboy but just curious if anyone has tried to build something like that so you get spining water spray in all directions?