Filling Ball Lock Kegs From Sanke Fill Station

[Tylerinthetub]

Like the title says, is there any way to do this? I'm off to the big city this weekend (Edmonton) and one of the brew pubs there will fill kegs, the only problem is he says they can only fill the Sanke style. Am I SOL? Or does magic adapter exist or can be assembled for this purpose? If I had been on the ball they would have been full of home-brew but just too many other things on the go right now, and I need some beers on tap for the warm weather.

 

[helterscelter]

Like the title says, is there any way to do this? I'm off to the big city this weekend (Edmonton) and one of the brew pubs there will fill kegs, the only problem is he says they can only fill the Sanke style. Am I SOL? Or does magic adapter exist or can be assembled for this purpose? If I had been on the ball they would have been full of home-brew but just too many other things on the go right now, and I need some beers on tap for the warm weather.

I think the problem you'll have is the coupler. I believe you could possibly build an adapter if you have the time and skill and equipment, but I do not think it would be a quick endeavour. If I were to do it, I would go one of two routes:

1) cut the spear/flange assembly out of an old sankey and weld into a ball-lock keg lid. the spear I would cut-short, and attach some silicone hose so that the fill happens from the bottom, (otherwise you'd be hard-pressed to get the lid on/off)

2) cut the spear/flange assembly out of an old sankey. cut, cap and weld a ball-lock post to the spear, cap/seal the gas-side of the coupler and add a gas-ball-lock post.

neither of these options are easy/fast/elegant. were I you, I'd just troll craig's list (or other) for used sankey kegs, and buy one of these: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C30F75I/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Does that fill-station perform a cleaning prior to filling?

 

[Tylerinthetub]

thanks helterscelter, I thought as much. I do have the time and skill, but getting those parts out in the sticks here in time is not possible. I've been thinking of making the switch to Sanke anyway, maybe its time to grab a few. As to the cleaning I'm not sure, I'm going to stop in there saturday and see what the setup is.

 

[SBC]

get a sanke keg filled and then transfer beer into corney keg at home.