dip tube help

[mendozer]

Using my friend's keggle and he has stainless QD to copper dip tube. It's corroded at that joint and nasty so I'd like to bridge it with brass to reduce that breakdown. The problems are:

1) the onle male/female adapter I could find here isn't lead free.
2) using a brass coupling and pipe nipple would create too much distance and it won't go into the false bottom hole
3) stainless dip tubes are sweet, but expensive!


Any other ideas?

*Also, how can I clean this corroded part?

 

[BeastlyBrew]

Bite the bullet and get ss


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[mendozer]

AAAH I know it's only $25 or so but this goes into the bazooka screen so well.

Actually upon further review today I noticed the brown crap was actually stuff on the older teflon tape. I scraped it all away and it revealed beautiful SS underneath. So my question is after all the brewing we've done over the years, why isn't it corroded? The copper looks nasty and brown inside, but that's just copper being copper right?

 

[stpug]

At $5 for a stainless diptube, I would not consider that expensive.
http://www.stainlessbrewing.com/Long-90-Degree-Tube-Bend_p_105.html

(granted, shipping is what can get you!)

 

[mendozer]

At $5 for a stainless diptube, I would not consider that expensive.
http://www.stainlessbrewing.com/Long-90-Degree-Tube-Bend_p_105.html

(granted, shipping is what can get you!)

Plus the $18 compression fitting to connect it otherwise it's plain tube. But that did catch my eye for a second.

 

[stpug]

Plus the $18 compression fitting to connect it otherwise it's plain tube. But that did catch my eye for a second.

You're absolutely right. I thought I had read a compression to copper setup, but after re-reading I see it's a quick disconnect to copper. Sorry about that.