Making a Cornelius Keg Dip Tube

[beakerboy]

Has anybody made a dip tube before? What is the process? I've used tube flare kits before to make brake lines for a car, but the shape of the flare on a corny keg dip tube is much different.

 

[day_trippr]

I imagine this would be difficult to do well, as the flange geometry is rather severe.
Cold-flaring a hard stainless tube to that degree is likely to end up with fractures.

Replacement dip tubes aren't that dear...

http://www.chicompany.net/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=79

Cheers!

 

[IslandLizard]

$10, $15? Jeez, may as well pilfer from whole kegs and use the carcass as fermentors. You get posts with those too.

You can buy them for $5, in different shapes at AIH.

 

[chawn]

Even if you could find a tool to make a usable end, I doubt you could make one cheaper when factoring in the cost of the cost of the tubing and the tool. They are only $15 at my LHBS.