Garfield43
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Short version: Is there some sort of field guide to taps?
Shows the different brands, how to tell them apart, how to clean and repair them and where to get parts.
The LONG version.
I just got started homebrewing. I have been watching facebook marketplace and Craig's list for equipment. More often than not I find a good deal, start talking to the seller trying to set up a purchase and then the seller stops talking to me. Later he informs me someone else bought it.
I have been trying to get a CO2 cylinder, a regulator and some taps and hoses.
A guy about 50 miles away had 2 jockey boxes (a 2 tap and a 1 tap) 2 cylinders and 2 regulators.
He had $100 on the 2 tap and $75 on the one.
I asked how much for both and when he said $125 I said "I'll take it!"
I picked up the stuff and headed home.
Half way home it starts smelling like I hit a skunk.
Once I get home I figured it out.
Something bumped a tap handle and it dripped ancient decomposed zombie beer on to the floor of my van.
I was really thankful I took my van with the industrial rubber floor rather than my wife's car or my dad's car with leather seats.
Anyway it becomes obvious they just put this rig back in the barn after the last kegger.
I am assume I should throw away all the beer hoses at this point?
I rinsed out the cold plate on the 2 tap jockey box and it eventually ran clear.
I tried to do the same on the single.
I has a large stainless steel coil inside of the cooler.
It ran a little bit, displaced some more zombie beer and then stopped up.
I don't know if it is plugged at the tap or someplace in the coil.
Obviously I hope it is in the tap.
I didn't have a pressure tight water connection . They used those metal bands that you crimp on most of the connections. I cut the beer line right by the keg coupler and then stuck that line in a garden hose.
I am planning on going to the hardware store and making an adapter to go from the threads on the back of the cooler to a garden hose.
I will then open the tap, connect the hose and give it full blast hoping that frees the clog.
If not I will have to take the tap apart.
I want to anyway, obviously they need a through cleaning.
I did not see any brand name on the taps,
Most everything else is branded Micro Matic.
I am guessing I need a faucet wrench?
I would appreciate any guidance.
Shows the different brands, how to tell them apart, how to clean and repair them and where to get parts.
The LONG version.
I just got started homebrewing. I have been watching facebook marketplace and Craig's list for equipment. More often than not I find a good deal, start talking to the seller trying to set up a purchase and then the seller stops talking to me. Later he informs me someone else bought it.
I have been trying to get a CO2 cylinder, a regulator and some taps and hoses.
A guy about 50 miles away had 2 jockey boxes (a 2 tap and a 1 tap) 2 cylinders and 2 regulators.
He had $100 on the 2 tap and $75 on the one.
I asked how much for both and when he said $125 I said "I'll take it!"
I picked up the stuff and headed home.
Half way home it starts smelling like I hit a skunk.
Once I get home I figured it out.
Something bumped a tap handle and it dripped ancient decomposed zombie beer on to the floor of my van.
I was really thankful I took my van with the industrial rubber floor rather than my wife's car or my dad's car with leather seats.
Anyway it becomes obvious they just put this rig back in the barn after the last kegger.
I am assume I should throw away all the beer hoses at this point?
I rinsed out the cold plate on the 2 tap jockey box and it eventually ran clear.
I tried to do the same on the single.
I has a large stainless steel coil inside of the cooler.
It ran a little bit, displaced some more zombie beer and then stopped up.
I don't know if it is plugged at the tap or someplace in the coil.
Obviously I hope it is in the tap.
I didn't have a pressure tight water connection . They used those metal bands that you crimp on most of the connections. I cut the beer line right by the keg coupler and then stuck that line in a garden hose.
I am planning on going to the hardware store and making an adapter to go from the threads on the back of the cooler to a garden hose.
I will then open the tap, connect the hose and give it full blast hoping that frees the clog.
If not I will have to take the tap apart.
I want to anyway, obviously they need a through cleaning.
I did not see any brand name on the taps,
Most everything else is branded Micro Matic.
I am guessing I need a faucet wrench?
I would appreciate any guidance.