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[TAPPER]

 I'm going to print up some t-shirts that say CRANK THAT NUT!

 

Are you using a co2 washer in your setup?  I do tighten that nut well, but not as hard as you apparently are, but I always use a co2 washer.  So should everyone.

[matt6150]

Are you using a co2 washer in your setup? I do tighten that nut well, but not as hard as you apparently are, but I always use a co2 washer. So should everyone.

Yeah I use a washer and snug it up. No need to really crank it. I'm willing to be most people's leaks are somewhere else in there system and not at the tank.

[Big Nake]

Yep, a new washer every time. I used to get plastic ones but the jobbies they have been giving me at the CO2 place lately look to be more like hard cardboard.

[darkmagneto]

I think I had a keg that had a slow leak on one of the poppets or something. I have enough kegs that I was able to take that one out of the rotation. If everything was working properly and my system was solid, I really shouldn't pull a faucet and get nothing. If everything was tight, I should see the flow decrease slowly until it would no longer serve. If the faucet was working one night and the next day you got NOTHING, that sounds like a slow leak somewhere. I'm going to print up some t-shirts that say CRANK THAT NUT!Mark: Time to go out for beers again. Let's get Jim and Mike to meet us at Emmett's. 

 

 

Sounds good!  Let's do it.  I'll send out an email.

[Brauer]

I don't want to turn this into a "I hate CO2" thread but... it seems like my system is pretty sound so if I have a problem, it's me. I leave my tanks on all the time. I have done the spray-with-Starsan thing all over every area (watch for bubbles, etc) and everything appears to be good and I have had 5-lb tanks last for many months. Early on I learned that you really have to crank that regulator nut hard when you connect it to the tank. I once broke the nut. Seriously. I had a guy who worked at one of the LHBS repair it for me. I think that this recent blip was just me not tightening it enough. I have three 5-lb tanks, a 10 and a 20. The 20 carbs beer in my on-deck fridge. Two fivers supply beer on my 4 taps. One fiver is a backup and the 10 is there to someday serve the taps although I'm not sure it will fit into the small fridge. I'll say this though... it never fails: People come over, we head down to the taps and it's the first time I've been down there that day, pull a handle and nothing. Empty tank.

I have a valve after the regulator. When I change a tank, I close that valve and the one on the tank. If there are no leaks on that end, pressure will still be up on both gauges the next morning.

[SchwanzBrewer]

CO2 is definitely a pain. I've bought new regs, lines, and bottles and have it under control now. I only have 2 - 20# and 6 - 5#. That will change soon enough.

[Deerslyr]

Thanks for the reminder guys!  I have two tanks, one of which is empty and the other one which has been in use for a while.  Taking 2 kegs to the family reunion this weekend and this jogged my memory to get a refill on the empty so we don't run out.