Title: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 01:52:24 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 01:52:24 PM
I thought I had a co2 regulator in a bag of bits I've had a while. How ever, it doesn't quite go on the value I picked up in AJ Edge last week. The only other regulators I have are mixed gas, and no idea where to get my mixed bottle refilled.
Are there slightly incompatible co2 fittings ? Anywhere that sells these near Dublin, on the weekend ?
John
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Are there slightly incompatible co2 fittings ? Anywhere that sells these near Dublin, on the weekend ?
John
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 01:53:07 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 01:53:07 PM
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 02:00:23 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 02:00:23 PM
Ah, dammit. Seems the gas lines I had are too wide to go into the quick disconnect fittings. Seems I'll nee to go buy them too.
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Title: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: Leann ull on October 22, 2016, 06:27:25 PM
Post by: Leann ull on October 22, 2016, 06:27:25 PM
Where did reg come from
There is a standard size that AJ supply and the world of homebrewing use but that reg looks like it's for welding gas what's the scale reading?
There is a standard size that AJ supply and the world of homebrewing use but that reg looks like it's for welding gas what's the scale reading?
Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 06:56:17 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 06:56:17 PM
It could have been an American regulator..I inherited it from an American in work. Looks like it goes to four bar.
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: Leann ull on October 22, 2016, 07:55:08 PM
Post by: Leann ull on October 22, 2016, 07:55:08 PM
You can replace that nut somebody did it here recently
Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 07:55:42 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 07:55:42 PM
Oh, cool. Gas supplier might have one ?
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: Leann ull on October 22, 2016, 08:19:19 PM
Post by: Leann ull on October 22, 2016, 08:19:19 PM
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: cruiscinlan on October 24, 2016, 01:08:55 PM
Post by: cruiscinlan on October 24, 2016, 01:08:55 PM
Quote from: bigvalen on October 22, 2016, 01:52:24 PM
The only other regulators I have are mixed gas, and no idea where to get my mixed bottle refilled.
Brew Crew are the ones to go to for that. Also the Irish Oxygen Co. in Cork will do mixed gas, but you'll have to rent/buy cylinders from them.
BOC no longer do mixed gas for individuals.
Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 27, 2016, 08:32:03 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 27, 2016, 08:32:03 PM
So, got all gas working. Though, while waiting on some new taps, I thought I'd get something out of some junk I had left around. Seems I have insufficient fittings for those too.
First one has a really long shank, with a hole at the back. Any idea what fits onto that ?
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161027/d9118abf83b787a0bb479a75c9908751.jpg)
Second looks like a Guinness specific thing. Seems to have gas and beer input. What is that called ?
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161027/15d15313446d42d93b8e22495f9e6b6d.jpg)
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First one has a really long shank, with a hole at the back. Any idea what fits onto that ?
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161027/d9118abf83b787a0bb479a75c9908751.jpg)
Second looks like a Guinness specific thing. Seems to have gas and beer input. What is that called ?
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161027/15d15313446d42d93b8e22495f9e6b6d.jpg)
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: kev on October 27, 2016, 09:05:03 PM
Post by: kev on October 27, 2016, 09:05:03 PM
Will your beerline fit into the connection at the back of the shank?
second piece is a gas Tpiece used in bars, its a valve to turn gas supply on/off to individual keg
second piece is a gas Tpiece used in bars, its a valve to turn gas supply on/off to individual keg
Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: Will_D on October 28, 2016, 10:19:31 AM
Post by: Will_D on October 28, 2016, 10:19:31 AM
The second picture is a gas line splitter. There are usually a line of these in the cellar. The gas feeds through the fitting and the keg is connected to to outlet. The valve then allows the gas to flow to the keg or not. So when you change a keg:
Turn off the gas.
Change keg
Turn on the gas
Turn off the gas.
Change keg
Turn on the gas
Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 29, 2016, 09:43:45 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 29, 2016, 09:43:45 PM
So, after three days at 12psi, I got some taps, hooked it up..beer came out nice and fast..but with no carbonation. This confuses me.
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 29, 2016, 11:26:17 PM
Post by: bigvalen on October 29, 2016, 11:26:17 PM
Looks good, mind. (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161029/1af9fd4492b7e70c32ca071d70d12db9.jpg)
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: Leann ull on October 30, 2016, 08:57:31 AM
Post by: Leann ull on October 30, 2016, 08:57:31 AM
You need to carbonate at low temperatures for at least a week to get the co2 into solution at that pressure. At higher temps try higher pressures. I used to to that up to 3 bar short term but you risk permanently flattening your rubber sealing ring
Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on October 30, 2016, 09:48:25 AM
Post by: bigvalen on October 30, 2016, 09:48:25 AM
I went looking..seems at 16C, you need 1.6bar. D'oh.
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on November 05, 2016, 09:49:46 PM
Post by: bigvalen on November 05, 2016, 09:49:46 PM
Oh, turns out that the stems on US regulators are different threading to UK ones too. Bah. I was right to just buy a new one.
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Title: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: Leann ull on November 05, 2016, 11:22:56 PM
Post by: Leann ull on November 05, 2016, 11:22:56 PM
but you only need the female nut that locks onto the male thread on the tank yeah?
Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: bigvalen on November 06, 2016, 09:32:08 PM
Post by: bigvalen on November 06, 2016, 09:32:08 PM
I am idiot. Cut it off the US stem, and made it go. Thanks ! (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161106/54402bae0b092fb823c6668b2c2ad008.jpg)
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Title: Re: Need help with co2 fittings
Post by: Leann ull on November 06, 2016, 11:03:03 PM
Post by: Leann ull on November 06, 2016, 11:03:03 PM
No worries 