Beer kegs as compressed air tanks.

Hi Larns
I have a Cascade Pale Ale in the barrel at the moment,Coopers Bitter in the other.Kegging them on the weekend,Then only have to WAIT 3 or 4 Days [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Hi Jay
I got a "Pluto" beer gun instead of a tap.Its on a 4m hose,so you can sit at the table and not keep going back to the fridge for a refil.Also you dont need to worry about flies/dust etc getting in the tap when not in use. 8) 8) 8) 8)
Andrew

you guys will have to suck it down to keep a 4m beer hose cold!!! 8)

Jeez, a 6-pack of stubbies lasts me a year (or more).

Ron

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Originally posted by p38arover
Jeez, a 6-pack of stubbies lasts me a year (or more).

Ron

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Ron, commercial stubbies have a shelf life of about 6 months----

those last 3 or 4 are probably off !!!!



not sure about the home brew life span
:?:

I read somewhere that you could use the spare tyre as an air reservior since tyres are capable (in fact designed) for much higher pressures than they run on. Consequently if you have air-lockers fitted, you can hook that compressor up to the spare tyre to use it for all your other needs then just reconnect it to the diff-lock tank when you're on the road. The article simply suggested making an adaptor to clip onto the tyre valve.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Hi Larns
I have just bought a keg setup for homebrew.Got 2 barrels of brew ready to keg on the weekend,wait 3 or 4 days then a taste test [/b][/quote]
Andy,
sounds like I may have to drop by in the new year. Hopefully this trip down will be swinging by Williams on the way home. Doing a quick trip down to take the kids to a Glory match and then putting daughter on plane to Adelaide to grandparents, down to Donnybrook to drop the wife and boy off for a couple of weeks then home to work.
Keep an eye out for the green pig with Melon plates in purple. If you are in your truck what channel UHF are you usually on?
Cheers and have a nice Christmas.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Sorry to interupt the beer chat <lick lips> but another idea I've seen is to use a scuba dive bottle. They hold enormous preasure/volume and cost around $100 on ebay - plus the other bits. I read somewhere that a guy inflated 30 sets of muddies from one bottle.

Where you would get a tank filled to 5000 psi is another question.[/b][/quote]
BMac - Mate, every time we call the it a b......le it costs us a round. We are only allowed to call them cylinders. Beer comes in bottles, water comes in tanks, air comes in cylinders. Its like stepping on a rope after an abseil descent, that a round as well. So can I put you on the board for a round???
I would think long and hard about using one as they are only aliminium or carbon fibre wrapped aluminium and can be damaged relatively easy if mounted outside the car and hit hard (normal wearers knocks are ok). If you are going to do it avoid dive cylinders made from aluminium and try and get 6litre or 6.6litre SCBA steel cylinders (a lot more robust for what you want but a lot heavier)As they are under high pressure this could be a danger itself if the wheel assembly gets broken off = missile. 300bar 4351psi. Mind you you can inflate things damn quick. We use this setup to inflate vetter bags under cars for vehicle extrication. As for filling them you will need a suitable air compressor and here is the scary bit our fills 2 cylinders at atime but cost $25,000 witha single fill not much cheaper and a quad fill about $30,000. Having said that you do not have to fill them to 300bar for what you want either.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Zook,
They will fill multiple tyres not sure how many though have not tried. But use for multi fill on vetter bags that will lift 72 tonnes each under a truck.
Average 9litre water capacity cylinder has approximately 2700 litres of normal air eqivalent at 300bar or 4351psi.

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Zook,
They will fill multiple tyres not sure how many though have not tried. But use for multi fill on vetter bags that will lift 72 tonnes each under a truck.
Average 9litre water capacity cylinder has approximately 2700 litres of normal air eqivalent at 300bar or 4351psi.

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<span style="color:blue">anything at that pressure should.....
but you wouldnt get that sort of pressure from any of the 12v portable
compressors on the market.......
also....thats not the sort of thing i would like to have bouncing around in the back
of lurch......
especially in the heatwaves we get here.....

1 bar is plenty of pressure.......</span>

Zook,
all inall they are pretty safe. I have never seen or heard reliably of one going off. However I would not like one under my vehicle. We have covers for ours custom made to reduce damage. The most dangerous part as with any high pressure cylinder is the neck/wheel assembly, snap that off and you have a missile that can push through a brick wall. I am happy enough with my blue tongue for 4wd stuff. You are right there are no small compressors on the market that would even get remotely near keeping a cylinder at that pressure. Unless you have a spare 20-30k to buy a compressor. Then you also need to carry a big drum of water to put the cylinders in while filling to keep them cool. The 9 lire ones we have had for the past couple of years are great and only weigh 5kgs filled. The old 6 and 6.6 litre steel ones weigh aroung 9kgs filled. Great fun having one of them on your back alday in an underground fire scenario. You certainly notice it a couple of days later. Now if I could just get them to fill mine with laughing gas.
8O 8O