stainless tower lines to 1/4 barrier tubing

[milldoggy]

All,
I just got a new Milano 4 tap tower for our new bar. It has copper glycol lines and stainless draw lines. I got a 4 product trunk line with glycol that will carry the beer from the basement to tap. The tubing is the hard stuff, not the vinyl tubing. Does anyone know the best way to connect 3/8 barrier tubing to the copper and 1/4 barrier tubing to the stainless lines? I got some splicers for tubing to tubing, just not sure if a hose clamp will tighten that tubing over lines. Any thoughts?

 

[milldoggy]

http://www.beveragefactory.com/draftbeer/beer-towers/single-four/MLN4_Draft_Beer_Tower.shtml

This is the tower.

Btw, Rochester Fixtures has awesome prices on trunk line, perlicks and towers. I got 525ss for 29.50, tower for 450 and trunk line for 7 a ft. They use eaton barrier tubing.

 

[evandena]

How did this turn out?

 

[milldoggy]

I used a small section of 3/16 lines to connect to the stainless. I used stainless unions/nipplea to tie the 1/4 to the 3/16. Use a heat gun to soften the barrier tubing.it is running great. Perfect pour at 12 psi. Need to improve my glycol chiller, I am using a minifridge now. It will keep the glycol at 53. I am going to make one out of an ac unit so I can get the lines a little colder.

 

[smooth]

+1 for Rochester Store Fixtures.

Good prices and great service.

I just was there, bought a bunch of tubing.

 

[evandena]

mildoggy, did your stainless tap lines come with barbs? I have a used tower, but it looks like it was just cut off, so no barbs. I'm thinking I might be able to make a trunk line with 3/16 tubing and just hose clamp on top of the stainless tower lines.

 

[milldoggy]

mildoggy, did your stainless tap lines come with barbs? I have a used tower, but it looks like it was just cut off, so no barbs. I'm thinking I might be able to make a trunk line with 3/16 tubing and just hose clamp on top of the stainless tower lines.

No, my stainless lines where just straight cut. I use a heat gun to heat up 3/16 barrier tubing and slide it on. I use okieller clamps, they will never fail and snug tighter. Be careful with the heat gun, pratice on a spare piece, there is a fine line between soft and compromised.

 

[evandena]

No, my stainless lines where just straight cut. I use a heat gun to heat up 3/16 barrier tubing and slide it on. I use okieller clamps, they will never fail and snug tighter. Be careful with the heat gun, pratice on a spare piece, there is a fine line between soft and compromised.

Very helpful, thank you.
Do you happen to have any pictures of your setup online?

 

[milldoggy]

Very helpful, thank you.
Do you happen to have any pictures of your setup online?

Are you looking for pics of the stainless lone connected to the trunk line? Or the whole kit and kaboodle?

 

[milldoggy]

Here are the lines connected to the tower

 

[evandena]

Here are the lines connected to the tower

Very nice, thanks for posting.

I see you used the push connector things on the copper, I was thinking of doing the same thing. What is the black line back to your kegs made from? I was thinking of using copper for the whole run. With what you have, does it stay cool enough?

Also, each beer line has multiple clamps. Did you make jumpers or something?

Lastly, what insulation do you have at all those junctions?


You were in the exact same boat I am in now. This is very helpful, I'll buy you a beer if you're ever in Madison.

 

[milldoggy]

I bought a custom trunk line from Rochester fixtures. It has 4 1/4 barrier tube lines and 2 1/2" glycol lines. The glycol are just the harder plastic type. The temp of the beer matches the temp of the glycol, so it works fine. I would not run copper all the way unless it was a short run. I think the insulation is 3/4 or 1". All lines are wrapped together with aluminum tape, the stuff you use for hvac. The insulation is covered with vinyl tape(electrical tape). I have multi clmaps at the tower becuase I had to step down 1/4 to 3/16 to stainless. I have a 10 ft vertical rise and 25 linear ft, I needed 1/4 barrier tube to for 10 psi in the kegs. Run your numbers before making your line.

Hope this helps.