bendavanza
Well-Known Member
I went to the scrap yard today and looked for good stainless stuff for brewing and saw some corny kegs, they were all smashed up. after wandering around for a hour or so I saw a bin full of largely undamaged ones. These are the cleanest kegs I've seen, nicer than any of the ones I have already. Many of them still had pressure. They have a level sensor which is odd and I think they have only been used to store water. They smell clean and look clean inside and out other than a little scrapyard dirt. I rummaged through them and picked out the best 13 and a couple extra lids from the damaged ones, and paid $1 per lb. Needless to say I am set for kegs. One of the liquid sensor posts had been taken apart and was damaged, so I examined it more closely to find that the dip tube for the sensor is solid at the bottom end and the open part at the top is just sealed with hot glue, so I was able to pull the wires out and so now I have a thermowell in the keg. It would be interesting to know how to use the liquid level sensor, it has a 1/4 mono jack (guitar style) for a connector. My ranco probe is a hair too wide to fit into the dip tube but I read here somewhere that the outer plastic layer on the ranco probe can be removed and then it should fit. So I'm thinking about using some of them for fermenters. Needless to say I am stoked, and I will probably return soon with a wrench and take the ball lock fittings poppets and PRV's off of the badly damaged ones to have as spares and for projects. I guess it's time I build one of those CIP keg cleaning bucket things.
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a link to these kegs sold new, but I don't see any info on what reads the level sensors.
http://www.americaninstrument.com/equipment/filters/2348b-filter.asp
Don't hate me.
a link to these kegs sold new, but I don't see any info on what reads the level sensors.
http://www.americaninstrument.com/equipment/filters/2348b-filter.asp
