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I just about finished my build. The 4 slimlines fit but it is snug. I can't even swap one of my AEB kegs with one!

The ball lock posts I have sit underneath the tops of the handles on the Torpedoes (by design - torpedoes are designed to stack with ball lock connections attached). Since the freezer has the insulation in the lid that hangs below the weather stripping it's so shockingly close that a little...

Hey guys, I got the Home Depot Magic Chef 6.9 and it will hold 4 torpedo slimlines but won't old my combo of 2 old cornys 2 AEB kegs or 2 torpedos 2 AEB (the AEB have a slightly wider boot but it's realllly close)...

Hey guys, I bought the Magic Chef 6.9 cu ft at Home Depot and it holds 4 slimline torpedos on the bottom without a collar. I'm still adding a 2" one for taps and a water line to/from my conical cooling coil. I also have 2 AEB and 2 old corny and the boots on them are barely too small to fit 4.

Hey guys, We've been successfully brewing 10-13 gallon batches for the past 3 years and had a session side-beer come out stale/oxidized tasting straight out of the primary fermenter when we drew a sample from the (freshly kegged) keg. This beer hasn't been racked other than for kegging, dry...

Sweet! Love my FastRack drying racks.

That is exactly what happened on mine when I did the original post. It must have heated unevenly and burned off the flux on the bad side because despite focusing more heat on that area it never flowed. I fed a few inches solder in trying to bridge the gap when it was hot but that never seems to...

Hey guys, I figured I might as well post an update. I followed Bobby's recommendation of dropping the keg and it worked great. Here's what I did: 1. Laid down a big sheet of leather on the cement to stop the cement from scratching my keg. This is pretty thin and firm leather that won't...

I'm an Electrical Engineer so I've got some solder wick in my electronics repair toolbox but I didn't feel like using up $10 worth of wick. :) Thanks again for the responses Bobby. When we first started moving to kegs from our stove-top partial boil setup we watched a bunch of your youtube...

Thanks for the awesome responses guys. I'll see what I can do when I've got some time to mess with it. We tested it yesterday for kicks and it does hold water. We used Harris Liquid Stay-Clean flux and Harris Stay-Brite silver solder. The pair worked amazingly well when we used enough, but...

Thanks I think I'll give it a try. Any advice on how to get the fitting out of the bulkhead? Its held in by the dimple really snug and I wonder if I'll have trouble getting it out once the solder is fluid. Thanks!

My brew partner and I decided to silver solder our kegs. The first joint came out horrible... Its got a lot of big blobs of solder and there is kind of a small "cavity" in it. We haven't water tested it to see if its water tight yet. The rest (we did 8 total) turned out really nice and all look...

Woah! Thanks for the photos, that's similar to what I was thinking about doing. I see you also went with the threaded thermometer and sweat a female thread on there. I liked this idea but now I'm leaning towards trying to find a thermowell which I can fill with thermal paste so I can drop a...

I'll be soldering everything together (already had all of the supplies, a number of fittings I can use, and some basic sweating experience). I dry-fit the hose over the 1/2" copper pipe and while its a close fit but was curious about clamping a hose onto a smooth surface. I was wondering if...