Beer Engines / Hand Pumps

[Hop Bomb]

Whats the craic with one of these serving from a corny?

[spacebandit]

Ebay obviously is you pays your money you takes your chance.Having worked for spoons for 7 years over the water I know these things quite well. Probably easier to tell you whats not important. The beer line can be replaced. The diaphragm thingy is irrelevant unless your drawing beer from a distance, ie a cellar. Needs to have a g clamp arrangement to fix it to a counter. The actual guts of the engine are in a sealed box so you need to check the draw by simply pumping the handle. Slight resistance is good. Stick the end of the beerline into a bucket of water and draw it through. It will splutter until the length of the line is filled with water, then you should get a nice smooth pull. The best nozzle is a swan neck with a threaded end so you can screw a sparkler on when required. The short spouts are shite. The swan neck is designed to go into the glass, right to the bottom of the glass. Same as those fast pour nozzles you see in the o2.etc. The sparkler is exactly like the agitator in a creamflow stout nozzle. You can get different colours, white, black and green. Each has different hole arrangements for different results.
Hope that makes sense..

[spacebandit]

http://www.caskwidge.com/products-

If you are going to do cask ale dispense these are simply class. No need for stillage etc. Any homebrewer can find a hundred uses for them too. You can literally dispense from a bucket using it.

[Padraic]

The actual guts of the engine are in a sealed box so you need to check the draw by simply pumping the handle.

I have three of these that I need to unseal, is the only way to go back to the manufacturer? They didn't look too friendly when I tried to open them up!

You can get lucky on ebay! And I feel that I still owe Tube many pints for delivering for me!

[spacebandit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNEPrw2iE4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Short wee vid there that shows the guts in operation so it can obviously be done. Funnily enough, that is exactly the same as mine. Wooden handle. Only orher one I've seen like it.

[LordEoin]

That is fantastic!
It reminds me of 2 of my favourite things, beer and steam engines!

[spacebandit]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRADITIONAL-REAL-ALE-BEER-ENGINE-PUMP-/281207246565

Just over a day left on this one. £20 + 12 p&p at the mo. Prob go higher