soda jockeybox to beer jockeybox newby questions

[mattyfu]

Hi there!
I've been reading this forum for a few days now and the wealth of information and amazing projects on here is incredible!

What lead me here is I picked up truly ridiculous deal on a well used soda jockey box that has 4 soda taps and a 10 x 15, 5 pass cornelius cooling plate. The plastic cooler it came in is toast, I have a 70's steel coleman cooler I'd like to replace it with.

I'd like to do a proper job of converting it to a 2 tap beer keg jockeybox but I also have a wedding coming up where we might be able to save some money by grabbing kegs from our local brewery vs bottles from a liquor store. But it's coming up quick and there are a lot of more pressing projects that I should probably be focused on and with most likely having to order stuff I'd be cutting it pretty close. But this ones more fun than the other projects so if I can make the financial case to my fiancée I might get the go ahead

Questions:
Are cheapo plastic soda taps a different beast than cheapo plastic beer taps, ie could I use the soda ones?

Trying to use a party pump to pump through a jockeybox is a fools errand right? I have a sodastream as well as a CO2 regulator already so for my particular situation the cheapest option is getting the sodastream tank thread adapter and a CO2 keg tap right?

Thanks for your help!

 

[TeeJo]

A friend of mine used soda machine parts to put two taps on the front of his refrigerator.

Other than knowing he used a dismantled soda machine, I got nothing else for you but that it worked for him.

He was brewing at a local you-brew store that got into pressure filtering and kegging early in the game (circa late 1980's), using soda kegs.

TeeJo

 

[MrFoodScientist]

I don't think these are by any means "cheap" soda taps, check out the price of them new . Not sure if the screw on the front is for flow control, but I think it is. At any rate I'd wager that these are better than average picnic taps.

 

[mattyfu]

I don't know why but I hadn't even considered the possibility that the pop taps had that kind of value, thanks so much!

I don't think these are by any means "cheap" soda taps, check out the price of them new . Not sure if the screw on the front is for flow control, but I think it is. At any rate I'd wager that these are better than average picnic taps.

 

[Bellybuster]

I used soda taps for many years before ever buying beer taps. The inlet is quite restricted so you ca get away with quite allot less beer line. They can be a bear to balance but once you have it you're good to go.