Howdy, folks. I have a two tap kegerator. My wife bought me some beautiful, fairly heavy, wooden tap handles for Christmas. The two standard faucets were sticking every few days, so I started squirting them up the spout with a Star-San solution at the end of a day when were finished pouring.
That worked fine to prevent sticking, but I found it annoying that I had to do that just to use the taps. After researching this online, I decided to purchase a couple of stainless Perlick 575SS faucets.
The action on these faucets is very light, such that it was a little tricky to get them set up with the wooden tap handles so they didnt pour on their own. Ive been using them a couple of weeks. There are occasions when the faucets are inclined to drip a bit after pouring. I never experienced that with the standard faucets: Off was off, period.
This morning, all on its own, one of the faucets decided to start a heavy drip. Fortunately this happened before we left for a few hours, or the keg would have been poured all over the floor.
As a secondary issue, which might give some clue to the faucet behavior, I am decidedly unimpressed with the creamer function. It looks awesome in videos on YouTube. Both of mine failed to provide much of a head at all.
Everyone seems to love the Perlicks, so I reckon the problems must arise from something I am doing or not doing.
Any ideas what might be the cause of either of these issues? Have I just not tightened something properly? Im a little reluctant to just start cranking the connections. Note that I did disassemble the faucets to sanitize them when I got them. I now gather that was unnecessary.
thanks, bws
That worked fine to prevent sticking, but I found it annoying that I had to do that just to use the taps. After researching this online, I decided to purchase a couple of stainless Perlick 575SS faucets.
The action on these faucets is very light, such that it was a little tricky to get them set up with the wooden tap handles so they didnt pour on their own. Ive been using them a couple of weeks. There are occasions when the faucets are inclined to drip a bit after pouring. I never experienced that with the standard faucets: Off was off, period.
This morning, all on its own, one of the faucets decided to start a heavy drip. Fortunately this happened before we left for a few hours, or the keg would have been poured all over the floor.
As a secondary issue, which might give some clue to the faucet behavior, I am decidedly unimpressed with the creamer function. It looks awesome in videos on YouTube. Both of mine failed to provide much of a head at all.
Everyone seems to love the Perlicks, so I reckon the problems must arise from something I am doing or not doing.
Any ideas what might be the cause of either of these issues? Have I just not tightened something properly? Im a little reluctant to just start cranking the connections. Note that I did disassemble the faucets to sanitize them when I got them. I now gather that was unnecessary.
thanks, bws