dohhhh! Wrong keg post!

[soilpharm]

What the hell am I supposed to do now? It was dark and I put the gas on the "out" post. Are their any tricks that don't involve destroying the plastic connector?

[bub]

gas on the out post should be fine... beer on the gas post is a pisser.
you should be able to pull it off but if not get the dremmel, that's what I had to do when I put the black on the gas
BUB

[Bugeater]

Been there. Done that. More than once.

I have always been successful (so far) with careful prying on the connector, moving from place to place around the edge. Careful, firm pressure does the trick. Don't pound on it or try to force it off all at once. It will take a while, but eventually it should come off. If you are impatient or club fisted, take Bub's approach.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

[Thirsty Mallard]

Send me the keg, I'll take care of it!

[soilpharm]

Thanks for the input folks. I will try harder in the future to not frig it up again. I ended up taking the Hacksaw Jim approach (a hacksaw). I am treating it as a chance to upgrade by gas supply hose setup - funny how homebrewing seems to always work like that.
Cheers!

[slanted & enchanted]

man, i've never had that problem. i usually just rock the connecter back and forth with the bottom spring piece pulled up, and it'll pop off. you have to use some leverage, but that usually works for me. never had the beverage line on the gas though.

i just realized yesterday that i have a keg with a gas post that just won't accept the gas connector. that sucks. i'm bumping it with like 40 psi every other day, since it won't seat. i figure it'll be better than trying to transfer half carbonated beer between cornies. that sounds like a foam nightmare.

[DannyW]

i figure it'll be better than trying to transfer half carbonated beer between cornies. that sounds like a foam nightmare.

No, it's quite easy.

Fill a clean keg with sanitizer and push all the sanitizer out with CO2. Leave this empty, sanitized keg with 10psi (or whatever your full keg has).

Arrange your kegs with the full one on a table or something and the empty one on the floor. Connect one jumper between the beer posts and another between the gas posts. A Tee in the gas jumper is nice in case you need to boost things along near the end. The whole arrangement looks like this:

A very short vent on the lower keg will start the beer flowing. Then it will gently siphon itself from the upper keg to the lower keg with no foaming at all because the beer never feels a pressure drop.

[J.Brew]

Danny's a useful guy to have around!