I meant the stuff everyone would need, which I guess would be just at the regulator. My line then goes to a distribution block to feed my 2 kegs
You are describing your setup in general decently enough to make suggestions but if you had a picture of your regulator and manifold that would be better. I have replaced a 4-way manifold on my kegerator with a 4 gauge secondary with evabarrier lines and the appropriatte fittings as well as converted my 4 tap jockey box to a evabarrier and duotight (push-to-connect) fittings while keeping the 4-way manifold. And others here have done similar and can help you. Now some of them may attempt to influence you to swage the evabarrier onto the barbs, which works, but it's so, well,
barbaric
. I'll start and then if or when I miss something someone else will jump
me in and
club correct me as needed. Give us those pics in the meantime.
Off the regulator to the manifold starts with a barb currently as you say. You might have an inline valve with a barb off the regulator. I just bought one like that. Since you are going to the manifold, a valve there isn't needed as you will have two more off the manifold. It could be helpful at some point for diagnostics but the barb is a problem. You can remove that valve. If no valve, then only a barbed fitting you could remove that fitting. I see you are in Jersey, so it's most likely a female 1/4" NPT thread off the regulator. If you show us the removed fitting or valve it will indicate the threads. If it happens to be flare threads, the male part of the fitting will be rounded. If not, you will need a 1/4" x ptc adapter. You have to decide here though what size evabarrier you want. I use all 8mm OD x 5mm ID evabarrier for both gas and beverage. You can fine tune it though. The 9mmx6.5mm evabarrier is a bigger line and perhaps better for gas. Your ptc size will be based on the OD of the evabarrier. Let's just use 8mmx5mm for now and then if you decide to vary it, you can just sub in the correct mm but make sure you can find all the fittings you need in that size at the store you want to order from else you will pay shipping twice. So you need an 1/4"x8mm ptc adapter with 8mm OD evabarrier. On your manifold, you will have a barb for the incoming line. Take that fitting off. It is probably 1/4" NPT female thread again so you need another of that same fitting. On your manifold, you will have your two inline valves. These should have integral check valves. Here's where you will pay $9+ a valve to get an inline valve with 1/4" flare threads on the out and on the in that will be 1/4" NPT. The valve should have a check valve inside too, read carefully when ordering. To each valve, attach a 1/4" female flare (ffl) x 8mm ptc adapter. You need two of those adapters. From there, evabarrier of sufficient length to reach your kegs and attach duotight ptc quick disconnects (8mm OD) for ball locks(?). If you want to keep older disconnects that have flare threads, you could buy two more of the 1/4"ffl x 8mm ptc adapters. I may have seen QDs that were pin lock and ptc or maybe I just dreamed it. I think that's it. I just bought a used 2 way manifold and ordered the parts that I needed from Brewhardware as a matter of fact. (I had a few adapters and one replacement valve). I was planning on using a tee instead of a manifold on my little jockey box, happened on the used manifold and was going to switch but decided earlier today that the two way manifold will work great for my oxygen tank. One line to go to my unitanks and one line to oxygenate my yeast starters with an O2 wand. I still haven't found where I put the damn tee though that I have to finish off that little jockey build. I may also now be missing the appropriate fitting for the O2 regulator but I can show the rest of it once I get the parts if the above put you to sleep.
There's these little clippy things that slide under the ptc collars to more firmly lock the connection. You'll want a bag of those, more than you think you need because they like to pop off to heaven knows where. I find most of them when I deep clean but never all of them. I can point you to or someone else will beat me to the links to all these items just depends on if you want to save money and swage the evabarrier. The crew around here
is insanely savage and will
I hesitate to use such language, brutally and forceably swage even the smallest ID evabarrier onto barbs. I will leave that to them should that be your choice.
Then again, maybe now you are in PA. Still likely NPT.
