WHOOPS - Dropped keg lid o-ring into keg filled with StarSan

[ILMSTMF]

• Pre-purged three kegs today.
• On the last one after I topped up with StarSan to get it to capacity, I was putting the keg lid in. The keg lid o-ring slipped off the lid! It must have sunk to the bottom of the damn keg, I reached in and fished around but couldn't find it.

So now I've got a keg filled with StarSan and a lid o-ring floating in it. Thankfully, the CO2 PP'd vessels are all sealed with o-ring'd lids. So, the panic hasn't set in. However, besides dumping the StarSan into a temporary bucket, fishing the ring out, then transferring the liquid back to keg... is it OK to just store the keg like this? Or will the rubber o-ring be damaged staying soaked in there, long term? My back hurts, not really in the mood to dump the StarSan back and forth. I just want to put these kegs back into keezer for storage.
Thanks!

 

[Gulo_gulo]

Why store your kegs full of starsan? The o-ring will probably survive (but starsan isn't intended for long term storage, as far as I know), but why not just store the kegs clean and dry? Hopefully they have no chance of freezing if you store them full... I've sometimes put co2 in them but never store mine full...

 

[kh54s10]

I too see no reason to store kegs either purged or full of Starsan. You should be sanitizing right before filling them anyway, so to me that seems a waste of time.

Why don't you use a siphon to transfer the Starsan to another vessel. Or look around, maybe the o-ring is not in the keg.

 

[DVCNick]

I'd either just pour it to another keg or dump it... Starsan is pretty cheap.