Help with bottling

[RDWHAHB]

Heh heh...bit of a joke. I actually need help with kegging. Nothing seems to get the keggers to show up like a bottling thread. "It so much easier to put it in 1 big bottle...."

Anyway, what size line do you use for CO2? I always used 5/16" ID (I started from commerial/sankey). I went to add a few more gas lines to my kegerator. My new ball lock "gas in" QDs have what looks like 1/4" barbs on them. My existing has a 5/16" barb on a MFL thread. My gas distribution has 5/15" barbs. I had 1 5/16"x1/4" barbed coupler. I used that and a foot of 3/16" line for 1 QD. Should I do the same for the others? What does everybody else use? The 1/4" barbs seem common on the gas side.

Thanks. And sorry for the false alarm Revvy!

 

[shortyjacobs]

You can use 3/16" or 1/4" line on 5/16" barbs, (3/16" is a real stretch though). You just have to get the hose nice and hot, (I used boiling water), and they'll stretch. So I'd say use your 3/16" or 1/4" line and just squish it onto the 5/16" distribution barbs...that's what I did.

 

[RDWHAHB]

Sounds good. Thanks!