Building And Using Garden Sprayer Party Kegs

[cam2584]

GDay
got apressure sprayer Just wnadering if anyone else had a stong smell in theres will this jsut clean out with napisan
cheers
cameron

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

GDay
got apressure sprayer Just wnadering if anyone else had a stong smell in theres will this jsut clean out with napisan
cheers
cameron

Seriously, only you will be able to tell for sure. Make up a hot, strong napisan solution and leave it for a day or so, then give it a good rinse. I predict success, but...

 

[mxd]

for the small, start working on the project and just leave it sitting outside in the "sun" with same water on it and it should came up nicely.

 

[cam2584]

thanks for the reply got it soaking now

those soda stram adptors where would be the best place to get on them cheap

 

[mxd]

there about $23 from keg king or ebay I think.

 

[cam2584]

too easy bloke thanks for that im jsut trying to to decide weather to go soda stream or gas botte

 

[oldmacdonald]

The beauty of the spraker keg is that it's so simple and compact. I reckon carting a soda stream cylinder around with it defeats the purpose a little. I'd go with a soda bulb charger. You can get soda bulb regs but they're frickin expensive.

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

The beauty of the spraker keg is that it's so simple and compact. I reckon carting a soda stream cylinder around with it defeats the purpose a little. I'd go with a soda bulb charger. You can get soda bulb regs but they're frickin expensive.

If you go SodaStream, all you need to move to *cough* 'proper' kegging *cough* is a *cough* 'proper' keg *cough*. So, there is no wasted equipment. I don't consider the SodaStream stuff too much extra stuff to carry about if I've got 8-10kg beer, etc...

 

[MarkBastard]

What I don't get is why you need co2 at all?

It's small enough to drink in one sitting :chug: and you can just use the in built pump thing to pressurise it so the beer comes out your tap!

Oxygenation shouldn't be a problem in one sitting I don't think.

 

[Bribie G]

What I don't get is why you need co2 at all?

It's small enough to drink in one sitting :chug: and you can just use the in built pump thing to pressurise it so the beer comes out your tap!

Oxygenation shouldn't be a problem in one sitting I don't think.

I may have mentioned this before but can't be bothered wading through n posts, but back in the seventies I had a keg that was briefly popular round the LHBS circuit. It held three gallons (in those days), aluminium with a barrel shape and a built in plunger pump on the top, and a nice swan neck pipe rising up from the top. Looked like this if you can imagine a little hand pump on one side of the top and a swan neck tap rising out of the middle.

Long gone, but the point is that I could keep it in my beer fridge or take it round to a mates and just use air pressure and never had problems with off flavours, even after a week. Should be ok for a party or even an whole weekend as long as you keep it cold and pressurised to keep the beer's dissolved CO2 in solution.

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

What I don't get is why you need co2 at all?

Because you want to.

Occasionally (admittedly only very, but still), I will make a small batch of something and keg it into one of these things to drink over a period of weeks or whatever. Sits on the compressor hump in the kegerator (or on its side in the kitchen fridge). So, treating it like a proper keg works for me.

I had a couple of party kegs before I got my 'real' kegs, so I was able to learn stuff before committing a whole batch of my swill to a keg.

 

[MarkBastard]

Because you want to.

Occasionally (admittedly only very, but still), I will make a small batch of something and keg it into one of these things to drink over a period of weeks or whatever. Sits on the compressor hump in the kegerator (or on its side in the kitchen fridge). So, treating it like a proper keg works for me.

I had a couple of party kegs before I got my 'real' kegs, so I was able to learn stuff before committing a whole batch of my swill to a keg.

Fair enough mate, but I reckon there'd be a hell of a lot of people going to the effort of co2 when they don't need to for 'party keg' reasons.

Small keg reasons I agree 100% they'd be very handy and I may do that at some point.

 

[shmick]

GDay
got apressure sprayer Just wnadering if anyone else had a stong smell in theres will this jsut clean out with napisan
cheers
cameron

Mine seemed fine UNTIL I cleaned it (Bleach or PBW I can't remember) where the black sealing washer around the top developed an incredibly bad butyl rubber smell.
It was so bad you could smell it on your hands hours afterwards and took 2 days soaking to get it out of the tank.
I cut a silicone washer out of bakeware which was a PITA but worked better than the original.

FWIW I got a small brass adaptor turned that threads directly into the chopping board top plate then fitted a standard ball lock gas post onto to it.
I already had a keg charger so this option looked better than mucking around with car valves etc.
Now after purging with CO2 I just fill it directly through the disconnect post with a keg transfer hose (liquid out to gas in hose) and it stays a closed system & fully carbed.
A 'picnic tap' went straight into the end of the sprayer's original black hose without problems but sometimes can be a bit short.

 

[zebba]

This is all covered in the "using your party keg" pdf on page 1

Fair enough mate, but I reckon there'd be a hell of a lot of people going to the effort of co2 when they don't need to for 'party keg' reasons.

Small keg reasons I agree 100% they'd be very handy and I may do that at some point.

 

[cam2584]

well this little project s at a stand still as local home brew store wanted to question what I was doing and try to sell me one of his kegs long convo running round in circles till I said to home look at the parts tell me if a price if ot I will get em elsewhere

 

[Phoney]

OK Ive built my sprayer keg, using a 6L Hills Garden Sprayer... so far so good except for one part!



Where can I find a tyre valve filler attachment that fit's OD line from? (circled in red) Ive looked at SupercheapAuto, Kmart, ebay and a bike shop, no luck! They all only sell pumps etc with a hose already fastened to the filler.

Cheers

 

[Thirsty Boy]

Sorry, cant help there then, I just got mine from super cheap auto... Think it only cost 4 or 5 bucks. Pretty sure I've seen them in kmart too.... But haven't looked for a while so they might not be there anymore.

Anyone?

 

[zabond]

as it looks like you've got an adaptor already just get a short length of nylon air hose that will fit the adaptor then get a JG type straight adaptor that will suit both hoses,if you go to an industrial air tool supplier eg: blackwoods/total tools or even a truck spares supplier you will get what you need

 

[raven19]

OK Ive built my sprayer keg, using a 6L Hills Garden Sprayer... so far so good except for one part!
Cheers

How about a simple in line ball valve and tube without the disconnect fitting similar to my 'basterdised' version a few posts back?

 

[under]

Ive got a charger with the quick disconnect. Anyway I can fit a corney disconnect the the sprayer???