Pimp My TapKing

[Wilko76]

Had a crack at mine a few nights ago. Found that you don't need to stuff around with different size hoses, and joiners.
I also used a 1/8 bsp male to female 45 degree fitting as well to minimise fridge space. Hosetail fitting and 45 elbow cost around $8 at Enzed.
You'll need a 1/8 BSP to 1/8 hosetail instead of the 1/8 bsp to 3/16 ht fitting. Then just remove the regulator, and reuse the hose that's attached to the little white plastic co2 barb. Turn it 180 degrees though, so it bends towards the outer casing, instead of bending to the center where the reg was. It ends up being the perfect length and fit for the 1/8 barb.
I made the hole in the side so the thread pushes through snug, but doesn't need to be screwed into the casing. That way you can push the hose on the barb before assembly, then just wiggle the threaded end through the hole when putting the top cover back on. When you do up the 45 elbow it makes it all rigid again. I used a small bit of the gas / fuel thread goo instead of tape to seal it up.
Do everything else the same as the vids.

 

[crowmanz]

Had a crack at mine a few nights ago.

nice job mate, very clean. I am having a crack at hooking up 2 dispensers to my keg king reg

 

[Wilko76]

Yeah, same. I bought a couple of T's with different male / female combinations to try that. Just thinking it would be a bit of a pita to change bottles. Let us know how you go.

 

[carpedaym]

Ok guys, I have a question about force carbing.

I recently bought a 16g mini-reg setup for my TK, and I need to get 3–4 bottles carbed up by next weekend for a party. I've been reading up on force carbing, as I am a noob, and one thing I'm not real clear on is if and when I can disconnect the CO2 during the process. I figure will need to eject each bottle once injected with CO2 so that I can carb the next one.

I like the sound of the shaking or rolling method, but after I turn the reg up to 30psi and shake/roll for some time (2-15m??), can I then turn off the reg and eject the bottle from the head unit?

I guess I'm looking to understand the consequences of turning down/off the regulator while the bottle is mounted, as well as what happens with the bottle is ejected.

 

[crowmanz]

Be careful mate, I had 2 tapking bottles blow (due to the bad batch of BRY-97 and I forgot I still had 2 bottled) and they do some damage. Mine were in a plastic storage container which the bottle neck shot straight through. Having said that I haven't tested at which psi the bottles will blow, I only put 10-15 in for the pour as I carb naturally. You will go through a fair few 16g bulbs too.

But with the external reg you can eject the bottles after carbing and they will hold the carb, I used to swap out half drunk bottles to different beers (I now have 2 tap king dispensers running off the 1 reg so less swap out needed).

 

[carpedaym]

Thanks for the warning, had your yeast not finished out, causing excess pressure on your bottles?

I will take a cautious approach when agitating the bottles to dissolve in the CO2, and although 30psi seemed fairly standard advice, I have seen the odd person say that dialing to serving pressure will also work but it will just take more shaking/rolling. I'll see whether boredom or safety wins out on that decision.

Good to know I can pull the bottles when they're carbed, or when I feel like a different beer

 

[crowmanz]

Thanks for the warning, had your yeast not finished out, causing excess pressure on your bottles?

Yeah the yeast stalled a bit higher than expected FG, I knew bottle bombs could be an issue so I bottled and drank most of it fairly quickly but forgot about these 2 bottles in a box the garage.

You should be fine with 30psi and the cold uncarbed beer will absorb the pressure alright. I just thought I'd put a warning out there that they have some force in them when the do blow.

Woke me up at 2 in the morning thinking the shoalwater bay military exercises started early this year.

 

[vince_cirilo]

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Went a slightly different route, see post in Lion introduces "Tap King" - party keg / growlers
Still uses external gas but mini regulator and 16g bulb fits in the fridge taking up less room than soda stream gas bottle.
Using those little triangular screws was difficult with my 'sexy fingers' (**** everything they touch).

Do you know if the 16 gram bulbs need to be threaded?

 

[vince_cirilo]

Does anyone know someone that has extra bottles? Im willing to trade delicious homebrew for them.

 

[crowmanz]

Do you know if the 16 gram bulbs need to be threaded?

to fit the mini reg? yeah they need to be threaded

 

[fdsaasdf]

Does anyone know someone that has extra bottles? Im willing to trade delicious homebrew for them.

I have extra bottles but am not local to MEL unfortunately...

 

[lael]

I have extra bottles but am not local to MEL unfortunately...

Local to Sydney?

 

[barls]

yeah sydney pm me

 

[fdsaasdf]

Local to Sydney?

Brisbane

 

[mattyg8]

Hey all recently hacked my tap king to use an external c02 16g bulb with the mini regulator found on ebay...Is it possible to connect a soda stream bottle to the mini reg and what would I need?

thanks

 

[lael]

I was thinking about the tapking system last night. I'm curious. Why doesn't beer get into the airline? Is it possible that it might? If so, what would happen?

 

[Crusty]

I'm about to hack one of these for the mother in law's partner & wondering if anyone can see any problems with filling some bottles up using my Blichmann beer gun.
I'd just keg my beers as normal, gas them up at my serving pressure & after a couple of weeks, use the beer gun to fill, then store them at fridge temp until needed.

 

[mattyg8]

Hey all recently hacked my tap king to use an external c02 16g bulb with the mini regulator found on ebay...Is it possible to connect a soda stream bottle to the mini reg and what would I need?

thanks

Anyone?

 

[crowmanz]

Hey all recently hacked my tap king to use an external c02 16g bulb with the mini regulator found on ebay...Is it possible to connect a soda stream bottle to the mini reg and what would I need?

thanks

the only soda stream adapters I've seen are sodastream to full size reg. You would have to find an appropriate adapter/reducer. I would just get a normal reg ($46 http://www.cheekypeakbrewery.com.au/index.php/co2-gas-bottles-regulators-accessories/product/239-stainless-steel-mini-reg) and sodastream adapter ($22 http://www.cheekypeakbrewery.com.au/index.php/co2-gas-bottles-regulators-accessories/product/494-co2-soda-stream-adaptor-with-washers)

 

[mattyg8]

the only soda stream adapters I've seen are sodastream to full size reg. You would have to find an appropriate adapter/reducer. I would just get a normal reg ($46 http://www.cheekypeakbrewery.com.au/index.php/co2-gas-bottles-regulators-accessories/product/239-stainless-steel-mini-reg) and sodastream adapter ($22 http://www.cheekypeakbrewery.com.au/index.php/co2-gas-bottles-regulators-accessories/product/494-co2-soda-stream-adaptor-with-washers)

Yeah I think that maybe the go

 

[Bbowzky1]

I have a ball lock pet bottle cap with barb on its way, a y- fitting and a keg king mini reg with 16g chargers on its way.
Im going to be hacking my TK so I can still dispense shop bought bottles as well as having a ball lock on the external so as to easily hook in my mini reg. The reason I am doing it this way is that I have only 1 keg atm and also wanna use my mini reg on it till I get more of a proper keg system set up
Ill get pics in the coming days

 

[SixStar]

Would like to see these.
I am an avid tap king modifier.

 

[Bbowzky1]

So I wasnt able to fit the y-peice into the available space of the TK and breathing inyo it i noticed the stock reg had a very slow expulsion of air, i figured the co2 would leak out when no internal co2 bottle was used. so I kinda looked further into it and realised if you remove the TK factory reg (the white bit that peirces the bottles co2 canister) then you would still be able to dispense a shop bought tap king bottle with your external reg'd hacked tap king. The down side to this is you are not utilizing the 12g charger that comes in the shop bought bottle and in addition you are using your external chargers to dispense it.

So story goes on.
I did fit the ball lock to PET bottle adapter, I used the neck of of sprite bottle as a jam nut. And it also had a barbed fitting to which I installed the 8mm OD (6mmID over the yop of the existing tubing)
It fitted of nicely however makes the TK unit very heavy (as I bought a metal one).
Once the ball lock adapter and the mini reg and all that is attached its very busy bulky and messy looking.

The only benifit to this is that I can take it to parties without samshing t reg off in the boot (ad they are attachable) and that I know if I detach the reg itll hole pressure as the ball lock is spring loaded shut. Thus I can use the one reg on many TK and even kegs at the same time (unlikely sinerio).

The main reason that I did th hack this way tho is that i wanted to be able to disconnect my mini reg and use else where as I have a keg but no real set up yet (an im lazy and didnt wanna have to unscrew it and shti)
Anyway as soon as I figure out how to post pics from my phone I will

Cheers

 

[BBQ_69]

Just finished off modding my tapking. I really wanted to be able to remove the regulator from it and move between other items (normal keg, growler, etc) without having the gas system open, so fitting a ball valve was required.

Using 3mm tubing into a 4mm plastic T piece works pretty well and the normal 8mm beer line goes over it perfectly;


A john guest fitting over the beer line hose and pops through the case;


The ball valve screws into the john guest fitting and has mfl on the other end;


The ball valves have a builtin checkvalve which in the normal use case is great but unfortunately I'm using them in the reverse so they had to be drilled out. Nothing the drill press didnt make light work of in about 30 seconds.

The finished product doesn't look too bad I reckon;



Rob.

 

[lael]

I was using a tap king system and have moved to kegs.

For sale: 2x Modded Head Units for $90 including 2xmini regs, 10-12 tap king bottles and appx 50 threaded 16gr Co2 cartridges.

Edit: Hills Area, Sydney.

 

[Brooa]

Here is a good website for this topic. http://www.tapkinghacked.info/