Simple DIY High Pressure Spray Wand for Cleaning Equiptment

[Fid]

So today was Brewery Spring Cleaning Day and I had some beer lines that were in pretty serious need of a thorough washing. Typically I will fill a keg with some hot water mixed with cleaning solution, pump some co2 into it and run a few gallons of water through the lines but today I had an epiphany and realized that the threads for beer lines are the same size as the threads on a kitchen faucet and so began a simple little project.

First step was to remove the aerator on the kitchen sink.

Now the Male Threads are exposed.

The threads on my sink faucet are super shallow so I had to use two O-rings to make an air tight seal and keep water from spraying everywhere.

Now thread the beer line onto the faucet.

Like magic the water flows freely from the faucet through the line.

So the Original idea here was to find an easier way to blast hot water through my lines but once I hooked it up I realized that it had the added bonus of giving me a 4 foot long high pressure spray wand that I can use for filling up carboys and what have you. The thing I'm most excited about though actually is just how strong the pressure is. I'm guessing it is going to make blasting gunk off of the inside of carboys a breeze.

The first time I stuck the hose into the carboy and turned the faucet on the pressure shot the hose straight out of the carboy and it started whipping all over the kitchen like a pissed off crazy snake spraying water all over my kitchen and me so make sure you hold onto the thing!

This thing actually has me excited to clean out a dirty, nasty carboy.

 

[JoshuaW]

That works out pretty well.y screw on hose lines are not the same threading though. I have noticed that the hose for my kitchen sink sprayer is crazy high pressure. One of my next projects is to extend that by several feet so I can use it to clean carboys.

 

[Fid]

The threads seemed to match up... at least on my faucet anyways. Like I said, I had to put a second O-Ring into the female end of the beer line since my faucet threads are so shallow but after that it worked flawlessly. My old place had one of those sprayer things on the sink and it worked OK but the only down fall was that it was too big to fit it into the carboy so I could never get the water to shoot exactly where I wanted it to.