Keggle Aluminum Vs Stainless Steel

[Germey]

I dont know how helpful this is, but SS will glow red when heated Al wont it glows white very slightly then goes splat.

Good thing they don't make 'em out of magnesium like old VW engines.

 

[EvilTOJ]

I have an actual aluminum (yes, a Sanke) keg, and several SS Sanke kegs. I really should take the time to photograph and weigh them, just to end this once and for all.

 

[slnies]

I haven't read the rest of this thread yet, but Al is soft and SS is quit hard. To tell the difference should be quit easy. Another test if we are unsure, is the spark test. Al does not spark when ground with a grinder. My next question is why wouldn't they have made a Al Sanke keg? It would only make sense, since all of the past versions of kegs built out of metal have been done in Al, as well, at one point or another. S

 

[ballbuster]

Try engraving on it with a dremel, AL will be very easy to carv on. Hell you should be able to do it with a pocket knife versus not so much on ST, +1 on the grinder!

 

[schweaty]

so anheuser bush kegs are SS?

 

[Donasay]

so anheuser bush kegs are SS?

The chance of a keg being aluminum is very very small, at this point the cost of aluminum is so high that nobody makes 15.5 gallon sankey kegs out of aluminum any more all new kegs are stainless steel. If you find an aluminum keg it will be more than a decade old.

If you find a keg just assume it is SS and start trying to weld stuff on to it. If you go to weld stuff on to it and it turns into a puddle it is aluminum. If it is made of aluminum and you just ruined it, bring it to the scrap yard and sell it and use the money to buy a brewpot.

 

[jpowers1]

If a keg were aluminum, wouldn't the metal be thicker? could one caliper the skirt, or are they exactly the same measurements. Also, I thought the AL ones were the old barrel sided ones that have or had a bung on the side with a Hoff Stevens tap, though I've been known to think more than I know...