Cheap Pump-up Cornelius beer line cleaners. FOR SALE

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Cheap Pump-up Cornelius beer line cleaners. FOR SALE

Post by The Dribbler » Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:28 pm

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Now that I've set myself up with some cornies, 3/16 beer line and nice taps. It has become obvious it's not so easy to clean the 3m length of lines. In fact it's a bit of impossibility unless my other corny is free to fill with cleaning fluid.

Anyway, being an engineer I've made a pressure sprayer adaption.

The Americans have been lashing up there own on their forums, but in the UK we have a serious lack of suitable fitting and fixtures at an affordable price.

The beer line cleaner fits the black liquid out ball lock.
Once the bottle is filled with your cleaning/rinse solution and pumped up to pressure, you simply click your disconnect in place, and depress the trigger to release the fluid up the line/ tap.


The connector may look dissimilar and short to any other cornie post you've seen, but this is because, normally the disconnect valve tang has to open both the disconnect valve and the cornie valve...this one only has to the open the disconnect valve. The connector is both strong and leak proof.

It's an absolute doddle to use. :lol: My lines have never been so clean.

I'm considering knocking out a small batch for folks, if there’s any interest. The price will be about £12.50 delivered.


The bottle is 2L capacity. Comments, questions. Say if you’re interested, so I can gauge quantities.

Cheers

EDIT: Just so I'm clear. For £12.50 you get a pump sprayer fitted with a corny post adaptor.

EDIT:
I've changed the material, of the corny post from brass to a hard plastic.

Some folks queried that if they used the highly caustic commercial line cleaners (the purple stuff) that the brass corny post may be eroded.

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EDIT 02/11/12
I have some more cleaners for sale. If you would like one please PM me.
£12.50 delivered. Payment can be made via Paypal
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Post by Kev888 » Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:50 pm

Looks very smart that - I've seen a few similar things cobbled together and even had a go myself; it works but it wasn't as good as yours and cost probably as much. I'd imagine that one could fit something similar to bigger garden sprayers or even pump outlets too.

How well would the material of your adaptor (looks like brass?) cope with stuff like the purple Beer Line Cleaner?

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Post by The Dribbler » Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:08 pm

I dunno, how it will cope with the purple stuff, maybe somebody can comment. It is brass.

Just oxidise quickly?

All the american bolt together types use brass fittings, i've not read any problems. And some folks have been using them a long time now.

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Post by Dr. Dextrin » Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:39 pm

I can't quite make out how it attaches to the sprayer. Is it a particular kind of sprayer that you need to use one of these? WTB?

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Post by The Dribbler » Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:57 pm

The £12.50 includes the sprayer. The nozzle cap has been threaded 1/8NPT to take my brass corny disconnect adaptor.

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Post by Cazamodo » Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:57 pm

I'd be interested if it is safe to use with the beer line cleaner that I use which I get from the loca landlord

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Post by The Dribbler » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:59 am

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You can read all about it here, for how the americans have been doing it, and if you want to build one yourself.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/diy-bee ... er-226497/

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Post by The Dribbler » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:19 pm

I've changed the material, of the corny post to a hard plastic.

Some folks queried that if they used the highly caustic commercial line cleaners (the purple stuff) that the brass corny post may be eroded.
The Americans don’t seem bothered, however. Most folks have brass in their brewing systems.

Still strong and robust.

Anybody want one?

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Post by Deller12 » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:57 pm

I would like one of these I'd rather have brass if that ok ?

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Post by Kev888 » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:04 pm

I'd bite your hand off if I'd not already bodged one (which took significant time, cost more and isn't as good :evil: ..)

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Post by The Dribbler » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:36 pm

Deller12 wrote:I would like one of these I'd rather have brass if that ok ?

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No problem. Brass or plastic, it's the same price.

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Post by The Dribbler » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:39 pm

Kev888 wrote:I'd bite your hand off if I'd not already bodged one (which took significant time, cost more and isn't as good :evil: ..)

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Thanks Kev
Did you use lots of adaptors and a proper corny post?

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Post by Belter » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:58 pm

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Post by Kev888 » Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:43 pm

The Dribbler wrote:Did you use lots of adaptors and a proper corny post?
Yes, I used a corny post of a design that had a captive poppet. I then removed the poppet (after much fiddling) so that I wouldn't melt the seal, and soldered a BSP fitting onto the back of the post (with special solder for stainless) to get over the post threads being non-standard, and then re-assembled it. I connected it via more standard fittings to the garden sprayer's hose in place of the normal tigger/wand (I used one of the bigger weedkiller/fence-sprayer type things).

It works, but a lot of effort and it cost more than yours too, so I would not now make another one with yours available. I can't see any benefit over yours either, as by taking the time to fit it to the nozzle of your sprayer you've retained the sprayer's own trigger and obviously don't then need a poppet as well.

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