Where is best place to get Corny kegs from in SE London

[Fastline]

I'm thinking about getting some Corny kegs

Has anyone got any recomendations as to where i could get some from

Also is Pin or Ball lock better in any way

What sort of price should i expect to pay

Thanks

[vacant]

https://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/beer- ... -2_25.html

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=71284&start=45#p749322

You can use the UK or Irish web site. UK has free delivery over £65, Irish is €8.95 to the UK. The UK site was more expensive when I bought - I used the Irish site and paid in Euros (NOT GBP on the Irish site). Prices/exchange rate have changed so do the maths to work out where to order from.

Ball lock seems more common.

[MadMarble]

+1 for Vacant's suggestion.

I just did that for two new kegs. Check the current prices as they are varying depending on what they have in, a month ago they were cheaper still. I bought two kegs and found they were cheaper on the .ie web site at that time. Bear in mind these are used and will still smell of the last post mix syrup that was in there, as well as being covered in labels. Still this is the cheapest way of getting into cornys. Ordered mine on Thursday late pm, had to email the seller and got a reply even at the late hour I was doing the order, kegs arrived today. It will take a small amount of time and elbow grease but they will soon be ready to use. Personally I used oxi for an initial clean. Externally I used a sponge scourer to get the paper off the tables and WD40 to get the sticky stuff off. Then it was just a case of following my normal sanitising regime.

Be warned at this price you will buy more!

[irv]

https://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/beer- ... -2_25.html

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=71284&start=45#p749322

You can use the UK or Irish web site. UK has free delivery over £65, Irish is €8.95 to the UK. The UK site was more expensive when I bought - I used the Irish site and paid in Euros (NOT GBP on the Irish site). Prices/exchange rate have changed so do the maths to work out where to order from.

Ball lock seems more common.

people are still trying to sell them in the "for sale " bit for >£50, i keep wanting to put a link to the homebrew offer, but would prob be considered rude.

[chris2012]

I noticed on the .ie site you can apparently get 3 for ~£70

[vacant]

people are still trying to sell them in the "for sale " bit for >£50, i keep wanting to put a link to the homebrew offer, but would prob be considered rude.

TBH, when I ordered my five-pack I thought I'd keep three and sell a couple on for a bit of profit. Needless to say I now have all five in use - failure of an otherwise damn fine plan.

[Fastline]

Thanks for the link Vacant, i knew i had read on here a thread with cheap Kegs

Just ordered 6 Kegs and a few other bits

Don't think I need 6 but at that price i went for em, i should imagine they will get harder to get as time goes on

[Fastline]

Got my cornies delivered to work yesterday, only had a quick peek at one, looks a little grubby but all there, also seems to be pressurised

[Fastline]

Here is a picture of the cornies i received

I had a quick polish of one of them (on the Left)

There seems to be a few different makes in the batch i got

Fantastic value for what you get, there covered in scratches and there's a few really small dents.

It's quite satisfying polishing them but a messy job

I need to sort out reg and taps and get a better understanding of how they work

[Haydnexport]

any chance you could tell me the steps to get them from grubby to shiney ? Pics would be a bonus !

[Fastline]

I may do when I do the others

I run my own metal fabrication company and have an industrial buffer, this makes it much quicker to do

But in saying that most of the work is done using a car body DA sander, just start of with say a 80 grit pad give the hole thing a sand with that, trying to remove the deepest scratches, then idealy you would go over the lot again with finer grit pads up to 300grit and then use the buffing mop to mirror polish

The one in the pic that i polished is much better than the others but not really as good as i would like as i only had 80 grit sanding pads, so this means the buffer has to do much more work, if i look closely at the finish there is some fine scratches still in it from the 80 grit DA Sander, if i had the finer grit pads these would have been removed with them.

There's lots of ways to achieve a mirror finish but in my experience the fastest way is use a heavy abrasive to remove the deepest scratches and work down to finer grades, you could use wet and dry paper to get the worst out just would take more time doing it by hand.

To get to a mirror finish a buffing wheel will be required