Taking apart and cleaning a regulator?

[cincybrewer]

Anyone have any advice or links on how to take apart a regulator? I have a taprite 740 series but it is leaking thru the peep hole and I was hoping to take it apart and either clean or replace some of the parts. Thanks!

 

[Salmonhouse]

I took apart my regulator and i tried in vain to get it to be functional after reassembling it umpteen times, but for the life of me it i couldn't get it to work again.

Good luck, interested to see if anyone else knows more about this than me.

 

[JRems]

I have taken all my used regulators apart before use. There is not much to them. Just take them apart on a table so you can't drop or lose any parts inside. Just put it back together the way it came apart and you should be fine. You might want to buy the rebuild kit before you take it apart. If you take it apart now then order a part that's defective, you probably won't remember how to put it back together when you get the part in a week or 2.

 

[cincybrewer]

Do they generally need to be rebuilt or does just a cleaning sometimes to the job?

 

[JRems]

There is a diapram and a spring and a couple o rings. Usually an o ring is old and cracked or the diaphram has a hole. I took about 5-6 apart and all of them it was just a old cracked or hardened I ring that was leaking. I have a huge o ring assortment , so I was able to fix all of them without buying additional parts. I would say of it's leaking it doesn't need to get cleaned, there is something that probably needs replacing. I'm not sure if all regulators have them but the only part that needed cleaning was the co2 screen/filter. It was just a super fine mesh screen that stopped particles from entering the regulator, it was inside the regulator. They were all quite dirty.