Hi,
As the title says, I have pin-lock kegs on a five-tap keezer. Right now, I have a fountain pump that feeds into a Y-splitter with two MFL fittings. With that, I can recirculate line cleaner through two of my five lines at a time.
That still means running three cleaning cycles to do all the lines. And since I have to take my disconnects off the lines to clean them, I also have to deal with making sure the lines don't leak cleaner, sanitizer or whatever I've got in them back into the keezer while I'm switching them around.
The bucket I use would fit under three of the five taps, but I never figured I could clean all five at a time until I saw a one-line setup that used a piece of silicone tubing inserted over the end of a tap so that it could sit on the floor. I set my bucket right under the taps, so I could place it under three of them and use silicone tubing so the other two could still drain into the bucket.
An easy solution would be to get a 5-way gas manifold with MFL fittings. That would let me connect all five taps to a pump, but it would still mean I'd need to take off all the disconnects first.
I've seen a one-line pin-lock build that uses a Firestone liquid post. From that setup, it looks like I'd need a 9/16"-18 SAE ORB fitting to connect to the liquid post. But I'm not having any luck finding a fitting like that which has a 1/4" FFL fitting on the other side (allowing me to connect the posts to a gas manifold). And even if I can, I'm not sure if it would have enough clearance between manifolds for the disconnects.
I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on a build like this, or any other ides on how to build a five-line cleaner for pin-lock disconnects?
Thanks for your help!
As the title says, I have pin-lock kegs on a five-tap keezer. Right now, I have a fountain pump that feeds into a Y-splitter with two MFL fittings. With that, I can recirculate line cleaner through two of my five lines at a time.
That still means running three cleaning cycles to do all the lines. And since I have to take my disconnects off the lines to clean them, I also have to deal with making sure the lines don't leak cleaner, sanitizer or whatever I've got in them back into the keezer while I'm switching them around.
The bucket I use would fit under three of the five taps, but I never figured I could clean all five at a time until I saw a one-line setup that used a piece of silicone tubing inserted over the end of a tap so that it could sit on the floor. I set my bucket right under the taps, so I could place it under three of them and use silicone tubing so the other two could still drain into the bucket.
An easy solution would be to get a 5-way gas manifold with MFL fittings. That would let me connect all five taps to a pump, but it would still mean I'd need to take off all the disconnects first.
I've seen a one-line pin-lock build that uses a Firestone liquid post. From that setup, it looks like I'd need a 9/16"-18 SAE ORB fitting to connect to the liquid post. But I'm not having any luck finding a fitting like that which has a 1/4" FFL fitting on the other side (allowing me to connect the posts to a gas manifold). And even if I can, I'm not sure if it would have enough clearance between manifolds for the disconnects.
I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on a build like this, or any other ides on how to build a five-line cleaner for pin-lock disconnects?
Thanks for your help!