Cornie Keg Tool Kit

[booargy]

So if you have no care about what tool is right for the job, why not use a hammer?

and chisel or screw driver

 

[Amber Fluid]

So if you have no care about what tool is right for the job, why not use a hammer?

Believe it or not, I have tried a hammer with no success!!

and chisel or screw driver

I have also tried chisel and screwdrivers and anything else I could find.

However, I did buy a particular keg from someone on Ebay who uses a Pneumatic Wrench to tighten them!!... THIS particular keg was like hell to break down. I was at the point of distruction and was just going to buy new posts but then I finally got it.

 

[MarkBastard]

However, I did buy a particular keg from someone on Ebay who uses a Pneumatic Wrench to tighten them!!... THIS particular keg was like hell to break down. I was at the point of distruction and was just going to buy new posts but then I finally got it.

I reckon a deep socket with a long driver would of got that easy.

What did you end up using?

 

[komodo]

deep socket, 1/2" sq drive drill adaptor and a loose clutch setting to provide an "impacting" action would have loosened it in no time. It would work like an impact driver.

As for spanners - you can get ratchetting spanners and they are the greatest things ever. When dad first got a set many years ago I thought he was a tool. Seriously why would you need ratchetting spanners? if you need a ratchet use a socket set. How wrong was I. I got given a set of imperial ratchetting spanners for my birthday - I soon after bought the metric set to match. Fricken AWESOME!

I love tools though I have a 7 drawer roller cab and a 9 draw top chest both JBS/1-11 and they're pretty close to full. Its a shame I'm a bit of a tool tard though

 

[Nick JD]

I find filling the keg with water makes it heaps easier to work on. Stops it being so light and hard to counter.

 

[Amber Fluid]

I reckon a deep socket with a long driver would of got that easy.

What did you end up using?

I tried just about anything and everything I could get my hands on. I eventually cut some of the rubber collar away which freed it up some but it still wasn't going to budge. I then took it to Beaurepairs who kindly helped to remove it with a rattle gun.

 

[MarkBastard]

I then took it to Beaurepairs who kindly helped to remove it with a rattle gun.

Haha that's awesome!

 

[Sammus]

sizes are 22mm and 11/16". two spanners total about $1 at bunnings, not sure why everyone is going and spending so much on automotive deep socket sets and the like?

7/8" and 18mm are wrong. they're close, they will be too big by about half a mm, it will probably work but its just stupid using the wrong size.

Most of my kegs don't even need a spanner, they hold pressure fine even when I do the posts up with my fingers?

 

[MarkBastard]

sizes are 22mm and 11/16". two spanners total about $1 at bunnings, not sure why everyone is going and spending so much on automotive deep socket sets and the like?

7/8" and 18mm are wrong. they're close, they will be too big by about half a mm, it will probably work but its just stupid using the wrong size.

Most of my kegs don't even need a spanner, they hold pressure fine even when I do the posts up with my fingers?

22mm hex, 18mm hex and 7/8" star all work perfectly fine.

The reasons for deep sockets have already been covered in this thread.

 

[TidalPete]

Retired fitters have spanners to burn.
Ringies do it for me every time. Fast & easy with plenty of leverage & there's always my "personalised" spanner to fall back on.

TP

 

[Nick JD]

sizes are 22mm

Americans were using metric when they built the Cornys? Don't fink so.

 

[stux]

Think my Italian "Cornelius" and "Spartenburg" brand kegs might actually be metric

 

[Sammus]

Americans were using metric when they built the Cornys? Don't fink so.

good point. but that said, my calipers measure mine as 22mm, my 7/8" spanner is loose on the posts, and 22mm fits like a glove. So as far as I'm concerned, theyre 22mm

 

[komodo]

sizes are 22mm and 11/16". two spanners total about $1 at bunnings, not sure why everyone is going and spending so much on automotive deep socket sets and the like?

Haven't spent a cent on tools for my kegs. All my tools are for cars.

 

[Jarthy]

why not just get a ratcheting ring spanner, no worry about clearance and a good amount of leverage...

 

[of mice and gods]

I don't think some people understand how tight these suckers can be. If you can get them off with a ring spanner than you're gigglin, count yourself lucky. I think superman must have done up my keg posts.

I reckon if I get said deep sockets then the rattle gun will sort the bastards out!

 

[of mice and gods]

Oh, also the boys at the work have some pretty precise verniers, so I'm gonna take my 3 empty corny's in next week and get them to measure each nut, I'll post the results here to add to the debate.

 

[of mice and gods]

So the measurement on my keg post nuts was 22.04mm and 17.67mm I guess that's close enough to a 22mm and an 18mm socket for me