Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:11 pm
by Pharmbrewer
I woke up this afternoon to find that my picnic tap had failed somehow and dumped four and a half gallons of my oktoberfest all over my fridge and brew room floor. (which is carpeted by the way
) I have just not gotten around to investing in a permanant tap for the fridge and always left my picnic tap hooked up for easy access. It looks like the tap blew vs slowly leaking as there are splatter marks on the side of the fridge. Anyone ever have one of these taps go bad on them before?
Re: Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:11 am
by hotrod38
Take the cap off the top of the tap. use a large flat tip screwdriver or a rigid putty knife. Check to see that the casket that seals the cap isn't missing, damaged or has been squeezed out of shape. Take the tap trigger assembly apart too. See if the rubber stopper that seals the tap isn't out of place. I have had one of these stoppers not fit properly after cleaning and I slowly lost some beer. Luckily, I had checked my assemble a short time after hooking it up.It could have been a lot worse.
Re: Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:56 am
by Crinkle
I recently had one that started to unscrew on the connect, so at the end of a long party it would leak beer if laying in the wrong position, I just had to tighten the connection and was fine. Not sure if you have the same problem.
Re: Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:50 pm
by Mylo
hotrod38 wrote:Take the cap off the top of the tap. use a large flat tip screwdriver or a rigid putty knife. Check to see that the casket that seals the cap isn't missing, damaged or has been squeezed out of shape. Take the tap trigger assembly apart too. See if the rubber stopper that seals the tap isn't out of place. I have had one of these stoppers not fit properly after cleaning and I slowly lost some beer. Luckily, I had checked my assemble a short time after hooking it up.It could have been a lot worse.
Screw that... buy a new one.
Mylo
Re: Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:05 pm
by Pharmbrewer
Mylo wrote:hotrod38 wrote:Take the cap off the top of the tap. use a large flat tip screwdriver or a rigid putty knife. Check to see that the casket that seals the cap isn't missing, damaged or has been squeezed out of shape. Take the tap trigger assembly apart too. See if the rubber stopper that seals the tap isn't out of place. I have had one of these stoppers not fit properly after cleaning and I slowly lost some beer. Luckily, I had checked my assemble a short time after hooking it up.It could have been a lot worse.
Screw that... buy a new one.
Mylo
Yeah I'm going one better and installing a stainless steel faucet in my fridge.
Re: Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:13 am
by BarefootLion
Poor beer : (
Re: Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:36 pm
by alan_marks
...but what a great rat pad lager. Time to get the shop vac...
...c'mon, just sayin'...
Re: Picnic tap disaster.
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:21 am
by Bluesssman
Ouch, I just hate it when a piece of equipment fail! But, it does make you a bit more vigilante of every other piece!
Gary