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Is it worth it?
My lucky day! I was able to find a couple of pin lock cornies from a guy in town who was selling them for $35! Forget driving 2 hrs one way for them. I'm also going to be picking up an old Hotpoint fridge tomorrow morning, which I plan on turning into a kegerator. This fridge is pretty sweet. It's one of those old metal ones with the latch handle. The guy I'm buying it from repainted it and it looks sharp. He's currently using it now and says it runs well. Only paying $50 for it.
Nice score! A piece of advice I can give is to install (if you have not already) swivel nuts on the ends of your gas and bev lines. This will allow you to not be dependent on what type of kegs you buy now. Ball locks are usually more readily available, but now that you have some pin locks, you will probably eventually wind up with a mix.
These nuts allow you to switch the QDs back and forth between pin lock and ball lock with no issues. 9/16" wrench and it takes 20 seconds to convert between the 2. Also makes cleaning the lines easier.
A piece of advice I can give is to install (if you have not already) swivel nuts on the ends of your gas and bev lines.
Good call. I can see where those would really come in handy. I'm sure I'll have a bunch of questions while I'm trying to put this all together. Thanks for your help!
thirsty wrote:
A piece of advice I can give is to install (if you have not already) swivel nuts on the ends of your gas and bev lines. This will allow you to not be dependent on what type of kegs you buy now. Ball locks are usually more readily available, but now that you have some pin locks, you will probably eventually wind up with a mix.
That's a good tip. In hindsight, I wish I would have bought the threaded ball locks connectors instead of the barbed ones, and put the swivel nuts on the lines. Makes for much easier clean up.
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