Out of interest, is there anything particularly bad about *not* servicing your reg if you do get a bit of liquid in it? I managed to backflow a bit of beer into mine having a brainfart a couple of months back, and havent noticed anything particularly wrong with it since. Adjustment knob's stiffer than it should be, but that's about it.
If it *IS* absolutely necessary to service it, why cant you just pull it apart, clean out all the seals, and reassemble without replacing components?
Just a question
What is "Soft Gassing"
He was referring to just keeping your keg attached to a reg, with the reg set at the serving pressure (say 65kPa for example), and just leaving it at that pressure for an extended period of time until the correct level of carbonation has been reached. Takes a couple of weeks.
As opposed to "hard" forced carbonation, such as using the ross method, where you have the keg under 300kPa or more, and agitate the beer to get the co2 into solution faster.
The advantage of the former if you've got the patience is that there's basically no way beer can end up back in your reg, and you can quite accurately get the carbonation level right by controlling the temperature and pressure. But it takes time, and you need a spare reg outlet