Cornelius Kegs, worth getting some?

[MightyMouth]

Question about Parva's picture. What is that the beer is dispensing into that looks like a stereo receiver?

That is an in-line cooler.

[Trefoyl]

Thank you! Looking at the ebay items index I just saw one for sale. I've never seen one of those before. Looks complicated.

[Parva]

Ah yes, I realise what you were on about now. They're actually very simple affairs. Beer is piped into a stainless steel coil which is immersed in an ice bath inside the chiller and this then comes out of another pipe to the tap and you have beer that's stored at room temperature served lovely and cold.

[Mountain]

A slight tangent here but...
I'm just racking a batch to my corny for Christmas. I usually let the beer carbonate naturally but I'm thinking of trying to speed it along a little by keeping it under more pressure with CO2.
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So far so good....
However, I only have one of those chargers that screw onto the in-post. I do however have quite a lot of CO2 bulbs and a pressure gauge fitted to an in-post.
I know it will be a little hit and miss, but I'm thinking of 'pumping it up' a couple of times a day with the charger.
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Now I know this wont be as efficient as a gas bottle and regulator for constant Co2 pressure but, will it work?
I'm thinking of pumping up to about 30PSI and seeing how much it drops overnight of while I'm at work.
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Any thoughts?

[Parva]

Yep, it'll work though I suspect it'll take a fair amount of bulbs to do it, and by fair I'm talking multiples of 10. This is pure conjecture on my part but I've seen how fast 30PSI drops to 10PSI even at room temperature.

[Deebee]

Ihave the mini pocket charger ,

Cartridges are really expensive here so i wonder if there is anyone who might have a lik to someone on Flea bay who will send abroad. I get so many strange hits when i try and search.

Can anyone help?

[Bribie]

A slight tangent here but...
I'm just racking a batch to my corny for Christmas. I usually let the beer carbonate naturally but I'm thinking of trying to speed it along a little by keeping it under more pressure with CO2.
-
So far so good....
However, I only have one of those chargers that screw onto the in-post. I do however have quite a lot of CO2 bulbs and a pressure gauge fitted to an in-post.
I know it will be a little hit and miss, but I'm thinking of 'pumping it up' a couple of times a day with the charger.
-
Now I know this wont be as efficient as a gas bottle and regulator for constant Co2 pressure but, will it work?
I'm thinking of pumping up to about 30PSI and seeing how much it drops overnight of while I'm at work.
-
Any thoughts?

I have 4 cornies and a regular gas bottle / regulator, and a 'kegerator' with a triple font sticking out of the top. However for parties and brew club meetings etc I bought a keg charger to attach to the gas post and a party tap for the beer post. The charger runs off 16g bulbs and does a great job, however the performance is a bit erratic over the life of the brew. The first few squirts out of the charger, I have to be very careful as the beer can get overly frothy. Then towards the bottom of the keg it takes a lot of gas 'squirts' to dispense the last few pints. I don't know about the UK but in Australia the 16g bulbs are as dear as poison although are half price if you buy a full carton of 300. It's currently costing me about 4 pounds (sorry dont have a pound key on my keyboard ) to dispense a keg.
What I do now is take the full keg to the party and if they only drink say 12 litres then I take the keg home and put it back in the kegerator. But I reckon after a few months of using a charger you would have been way ahead buying or hiring a regular bottle and getting a regulator.

As far as constant pressure goes, no you would have to apply squirts of gas manually and it would be a fine art to say the least!!