How to Disassemble Beer Font

[Ester Trub]

Someone gave me this old beer font and I want to restore it and use it.
For the life of me I can't work out how to open it to replace the beer line.
My guess is that you have to screw the tube off but damned if I can make it move!
Anyone got one of these that can advise?

 

[gap]

Have you taken the taps off the font?

 

[Rurik]

Take the shank off from behind the tap and feed it through. I find top to bottom easier

 

[Ester Trub]

Yep. Have taken the tap of.
This is what it looks like. Just a solid block of steel with an opening for the liquid.
The connections for the beer line are in the tube somewhere.

 

[Rurik]

That was the shank I was talking about, mine screwed out.

 

[Weizguy]

As an aside, it looks like you have a short font, and they are normally mounted on top of a box or on the edge of a raised platform on the bar, to allow adequate space to fill a beer glass. FWIW, I have a single tap one at home.