National Homebrew Club Ireland

What's the best way to get your keg posts off.  I use an adjustable spanner for my short coca cola kegs but I got some of the taller ones when HBC were doing the deal on them and I'm having real trouble getting them off. Any tips? Any reasonably priced tools for the job? I found some perfect looking sockets for a socket wrench in the states but postage was prohibitive.

This is what I use and its perfect for fitting over the posts, http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductMobileDisplay?catalogId=15551&langId=-1&categoryId=317959&productId=200933&storeId=11101

Quote from: Qs on September 10, 2016, 10:36:51 PM
What's the best way to get your keg posts off.  I use an adjustable spanner for my short coca cola kegs but I got some of the taller ones when HBC were doing the deal on them and I'm having real trouble getting them off. Any tips? Any reasonably priced tools for the job? I found some perfect looking sockets for a socket wrench in the states but postage was prohibitive.

22 ring wrenches will do the job fine, Aldi are selling them at the moment in sets from 6mm to 22ml. I have two sets & the are great for bike & other basic maintenance tasks (as well as for keg posts :)). https://www.aldi.ie/16-piece-wrench-set/p/093564061214000

Shanna

Cheers gents.  Just the answers I was looking for.

If you have the spanner on and it's refusing to turn anti clockwise extend your spanner with a bar for more torq or worse case a few gentle taps just to release.
A lot of those commercial kegs never had a deep clean and cleaned just by flushing with post in situ and so posts frozen on with slight corrosion.
Don't use WD 40 or anything like it as you'll never get rid of the taint.
Hand tight when you are putting them back on should be loads.

Clockwise and the whole keg is ucked

Lefty loosey righty tighty