Cleaning Ball Lock Fittings

Remove the male keg fittings and toss them into some cleaning solution.

Cleaning ball lock fittings.

This is a direct replacement to ball lock fittings included with the fermzilla pressure kit. This process is no more difficult than removing a spark plug from your lawnmower. It is compatible with both gas and liquid ball lock disconnects. Also works well for cleaning draft lines.

Simply add line cleaning solution to a soda bottle attach it to the draft line and open the faucet to push solution through. For ball lock fittings you need a 7 8 inch deep socket and socket wrench. Use the compression fitting to attach the liquid out hose to pump inlet. Ball lock couplers are designed for use with cornelius pepsi kegs.

The ball lock coupler system has a separate tap for the gas in and beer out sides of the keg. For pin lock fittings a 13 16 inch socket can be modified with special cuts to accommodate the pins. At morebeer we carry a variety of ball locks as well as other accessories that you ll find useful in your kegging operation. Loosely attach the grey ball lock fitting to the saturation hose and the black ball lock fitting to the liquid out hose for easy disassembly and sanitation before use.

Ball lock fittings if you re a home brewer who uses kegs that feature ball lock connections you need ball lock quick disconnects to attach your gas and beverage tubing. It s a nice solid adapter that does the trick. I use this adapter along with the kegco bf kpck32 deluxe hand pump pressurized keg beer cleaning kit with 32 oz cleaner black to clean my beer lines which obviously run from ball lock 5 gal corny kegs rather than sankey fittings. The pump can easily be removed from the plate for cleaning and pressed back into place without using.

Lastly turn your keg upside down and put the entire assembly into a standard 5 gallon bucket that contains 2 gallons of your preferred cleaning solution then activate the pump.