Trough Lolly
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Merry Xmas all!
Good old Santa brought me a new filter kit (with ball valve option) this morning. Now, whilst I'm happy to discuss all manner of topics on brewing, I have a confession to make...I know feck all about fittings etc!
So, to me I have two challenges - I have no idea how to put hose into John Guest fittings, nor do I have any experience in setting up the JG fittings to the reducers. I've thrown together the parts by hand and taken a photo? I'm assuming that I'll run the cloudy beer out of the keg from the supplied beer out fitting with JG thingy attached, into half of the supplied LLDPE hose which is in turn connected to a JG fitting that is screwed into the black reducer on the "IN" side of the cannister. I've fitted the ball valve to the "OUT" side reducer from the cannister and then simply run some hose from that into the keg (or clamp it to nut and tail and onto a beer out threaded disconnect on the receiving keg if I want to get techo).
Have I got the right idea? The reducers seem to screw in easily enough and I'll run some of the tape around them before I install for real. The JG fittings get tight as you screw them into the reducer - I'm reluctant to use gorilla grip in case I'm wrong and stripping threads - do they have to be fully screwed into the reducer so the hex part is hard against the black reducer, or just tight???
How do you fit the tubing into the JG fitting??? It looks like I need to cut the end square, push it in until it's fully in and that's that - is there something in there that clamps the hose in place? The darker coloured collar seems to be some sort of fitting that I presume you have to pull against in order to remove the hose for cleaning??? Is that right?
If I've got the ball valve wrong, it looks like I'll need another JG fitting for the ball valve but seeings as how all the parts are used up, I can't see another way of configuring this without getting extra parts.
Sorry...these are stupid dumbass questions, but I don't want to wreck it before I use it.
Cheers,
TL the fittings numpty!
Good old Santa brought me a new filter kit (with ball valve option) this morning. Now, whilst I'm happy to discuss all manner of topics on brewing, I have a confession to make...I know feck all about fittings etc!
So, to me I have two challenges - I have no idea how to put hose into John Guest fittings, nor do I have any experience in setting up the JG fittings to the reducers. I've thrown together the parts by hand and taken a photo? I'm assuming that I'll run the cloudy beer out of the keg from the supplied beer out fitting with JG thingy attached, into half of the supplied LLDPE hose which is in turn connected to a JG fitting that is screwed into the black reducer on the "IN" side of the cannister. I've fitted the ball valve to the "OUT" side reducer from the cannister and then simply run some hose from that into the keg (or clamp it to nut and tail and onto a beer out threaded disconnect on the receiving keg if I want to get techo).
Have I got the right idea? The reducers seem to screw in easily enough and I'll run some of the tape around them before I install for real. The JG fittings get tight as you screw them into the reducer - I'm reluctant to use gorilla grip in case I'm wrong and stripping threads - do they have to be fully screwed into the reducer so the hex part is hard against the black reducer, or just tight???
How do you fit the tubing into the JG fitting??? It looks like I need to cut the end square, push it in until it's fully in and that's that - is there something in there that clamps the hose in place? The darker coloured collar seems to be some sort of fitting that I presume you have to pull against in order to remove the hose for cleaning??? Is that right?
If I've got the ball valve wrong, it looks like I'll need another JG fitting for the ball valve but seeings as how all the parts are used up, I can't see another way of configuring this without getting extra parts.
Sorry...these are stupid dumbass questions, but I don't want to wreck it before I use it.
Cheers,
TL the fittings numpty!