Attaching black attachments and undoing them from corny leg

[bez]

I always find it difficult to attach and remove beer outlet from my corny keg. It’s a pain. I just bought a new black attachment and it’s the same any help

 

[thepatchworkdoll]

Hi there
Have you tried a wee bit of food safe lube on the post.
Regards
Patch

 

[Scrattajack]

Know what you mean.

Don't think all disconnects are created equal, the CMB ones seem ok compared to the others I've got.

 

[The Baron]

I use KY jelly and we will leave it at that

 

[Leon103]

Make sure it's going on the right post

 

[gyurmaember]

Can you describe your kegs a bit more? Are they new, used, reconditioned?
I have an used one with crappy post(it's still need to be addressed, but seems more convenient to order new kegs when I'm short).

 

[LeeH]

I use KY jelly and we will leave it at that

Me too, but for the kegs a little silicone spray.

 

[bez]

Can you describe your kegs a bit more? Are they new, used, reconditioned?
I have an used one with crappy post(it's still need to be addressed, but seems more convenient to order new kegs when I'm short).

The kegs are old. The inlet is fine. It’s just the outlet. The posts are the same aren’t they

 

[bez]

Me too, but for the kegs a little silicone spray.

Tried that

 

[bez]

Make sure it's going on the right post

Are the posts not the same

 

[Rodcx500z]

Are the posts not the same

I don't think they are, i once got the black on the gas post by mistake, i had a hell of job to get it off

 

[Rodcx500z]

If you think about it they must be different why else would they be different colours

 

[Scrattajack]

If you look at the 'IN' posts, they have notches on hex heads whereas the 'OUT' ones don't. They are different sizes.

 

[LeeH]

That was my next suggestion. One of my refurbished kegs had them backwards.

 

[Leon103]

As mentioned above, they are different.

 

[bez]

Thanks. So the posts can be in out or universal. But the workings are identical.
Presumably the universal ones will fit both grey and black.

 

[AnimatedGIF]

Innmy experience, grey disconnects fit both posts, black only the one without notches.
As well as silicone spray, sanitiser works well from a spray bottle I find

 

[gyurmaember]

Try to replace the post.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

The grey disconnect fits both as the gas post is slightly larger. If the black disconnect is connected to the gas post , it takes a fair bit of pulling to remove it. I use green and red O rings on the keg posts . G for Gas , G for green and G for Grey . So the grey disconnect goes on the gas post which has a green O ring . It saves a lot of messing when I'm hooking them up. Some second hand kegs have faulty posts fitted or they've had a hard life and picked up a few knocks over their lives if you can identify the keg , you could pick up a replacement liquid post . There's a lot of different brands and they're not all interchangeable. It can be difficult to remove the posts as stainless on stainless can cause galling , in other words they can bind todether. You may need to shock the spanner with a hammer to get them separated.
Apologies for repeating the last two previous posts we were all typing together at the same time

 

[Buffers brewery]

I’ve experienced this and decided the cause was the little black moulding that sits on the spring and has the o ring fitted is fractionally too long and bottoms out before locking on. Filed a little bit (technical term) off the tip to fix.