My perlick faucet was dripping so I gave it a good cleaning. The drip is gone but now my head retention is awful! Same beer, same psi, same everything else. I disassembled everything, gave it all a light scrub with dish soap, rinsed very well, sanitized in StarSan, put some food-safe silicone lube on the moving parts and o-rings, sanitized again and reassembled.
I know the dish soap can kill your head retention so I was very careful to rinse everything. Is it the StarSan? The silicone lube? Must I have missed some soap? More importantly, should is disassemble and try to remove whatever it is or wait it out and hopefully the flowing beer washes away the culprit?
This reminds me of the time I asked a mechanic to flush the radiator in my beat up old overheating van. He told me the gunk in there was probably plugging up a thousand leaks and it’d be best to just drive the poor thing into the ground.
I know the dish soap can kill your head retention so I was very careful to rinse everything. Is it the StarSan? The silicone lube? Must I have missed some soap? More importantly, should is disassemble and try to remove whatever it is or wait it out and hopefully the flowing beer washes away the culprit?
This reminds me of the time I asked a mechanic to flush the radiator in my beat up old overheating van. He told me the gunk in there was probably plugging up a thousand leaks and it’d be best to just drive the poor thing into the ground.