hey there dustin here just want to shoot a quick video on replacing the o-rings and overhauling a corny keg got my o-ring kit here cost whopping 4.95 cents i think i got it from morebeer.com but i actually picked it up at their store so over the course of this video what we're going to do is um replace your uh the out o-ring here this is where the beer comes out this is the an o ring where the beer comes in you can see yeah maybe inside the keg here there's no dip tube there if i swing the two k ground you see there is a dip tube on that side um this corny has been i've used it for quite a few years it's clean right now but um today we're going to replace the o-rings replace the mano rings for the lid and clean it so for this project you're only going to need two tools one is a 7 8 inch socket standard socket and you can even get by with just 7 8 inch wrench but i prefer a socket for one side and then you will need a 7 8 wrench with a 12 point end on it you can see that's a 12 point end here versus that's called a six point the reason you need that is um that's six point side on your out and on the end on some of these kegs you've got this uh 12 point setup that obviously the six point socket won't fit on so your first step is gonna be um go ahead and take off the out port jump on here and break it loose and then you heard me break it loose there and see i've got it loosened up i'm gonna grab my wrench and jump on this other port i've pre-loosened this and i have it now to the point i can get it with my fingers so pull us out of here you can see right there's our other o-ring on this keg and this actually looks quite clean and go ahead and take the dip tube out yeah it looks pretty clean as well let's get a little nasty on there so i'm reaching inside the cake now i'm actually grabbing the dip tube with my hand and pulling up and you see now the zip tube is starting to extend out of the tank and voila there you go now now's the time um some people like to cut their dip tube a little bit um at the bottom maybe take off a uh oh half an inch or an inch or so i've read i don't personally there's a little dip in the bottom of the keg and the dip tube sets down on that some people feel that if you cut back an inch or so you don't pick up as much yeast i treat my beer with gelatin so all my yeast comes out in the first couple cups i served so here i'm gonna go ahead and remove this o-ring see this one's actually got a little damage on it um it doesn't affect how it works but i've never noticed it before it looks like i slammed something down on top of it so to get this out i'm just going to reach underneath of it and then pop it up i'm going to go ahead and just destroy this one because i'm not going to reuse it so i'm actually going to puncture it and then just pull it off like that um you're going to reuse them be a little bit more kind to them and get them off without damaging them so there's one here's my next one and i'll try to be a little bit more cautious with this one you see if you run in sideways you actually start getting the o-ring to pop up a bit then you can just reach underneath that you can see on this one i haven't damaged him pulled him right off so like i say you don't need this uh tool you can use a paperclip or a wife's bobby pin or anything like that so now we've got both our uh inlet and our outlet cleaned up and our next task is going to be down here um actually on the keg itself um to remove these little o-rings here you can see that one just sets there that's easy to take off which i just did and then this guy here yeah so now we're gonna work on our in or the gas end fitting o-ring there's a small dip tube oh he said pop up there i was pushing from the bottom and just let go i'm happy to catch it but um yeah there she is all right the next step i like to do on changing the o-rings is give everything a nice little star sand bath clean everything up you don't get into these areas too often unless you're doing o-rings and what i've done here is taking the pop-it out of this side and you can see right on through now to do this flip it over and whack it a few times it falls out or you might have to push it with the screwdriver your awl or maybe that paperclip you're using now from here i'm going to take my two little poppet valves and attach themselves my gas in and uh run this over here i've got um tank of star sand going here it's probably yeah so um i've got my star stand going over there warm and i keep a sponge in it what i'd like to do is take my sponge and just give everything on top of the keg a little um pre-soak with the star sand i'm not going to scrub on it right now i'm just putting some star sand on here to loosen things up and in fact i'm going to go grab one more sponge full of star sand and put on and let it soak for a bit and then i'll give it a scrub down so i finally cleaned the top here i let it set with the star sand on for about 15 or 20 minutes and then i came back and what i like to do is i like to wrap the sponge around the fitting here and kind of rotate it back and forth and then also work down in the hole where those inserts that you know on one side you've got the dip tube and on the other side you've got a little co2 tube and then um the other area i like to hit is um kind of back behind where the tubes block on both sides those often get neglected when you're cleaning because you just can't get a tool back there and it's hard to get your hands back there or anything back there so um you know on the inside i've cleaned this whole strip here quite well and then you know down the outside where the dip tube goes and getting ready to put things back together so our first step i'm going back together is to take the o-rings and yeah i've got the o-rings i've give them a little um docents of star sand just to um clean them up a bit you know don't know where they've been some people might not want to do that they think that the star stand might break down the o-ring um i can afford four dollars and fifty cents to replace them um i've got everything else going in here you'll see i've got the actual lid and just letting it soak so i'm here in a bit i'll pull this out and start the reassembly process so back here again first step of reassembly is putting your actual o-rings back on the dip tube in the co2 tube so first step here is just take this and i like to just slide it right up the dip tube and the o-ring before i uh put them back in the keg so you see i put the co2 one back on do another swish in the star sand and grab my dip tube here and uh start way down here on the other end and i did switch just a little bit star sand on this outside the view of the camera just for lubrication and you can see i'm sliding up here at the top before i slide it up to the top and make sure i get all my hairs from the brillo pad on the sponge there's still some green stuff that tends to get stuck on there and i like to have a nice clean uh you know fitting nice clean fit there and you can see voila put that o-ring right up to the end so the dip tube and the co2 tube are ready to go back in um from here come back down to the keg and obviously the dip tube goes on the outside so i'm gonna stick it in kind of work it it's a little bit uh tricky to get around that little curve there and as you drop it back in the only thing you have to look at is um to make sure see if i get some light in here for you that um the dip tube is down in the very center and that little recessed area in the bottom of the keg and as i was pushing down i did twist it and cheated and stuck it right in there so next is the co2 fitting and that should go in the inside and dropped it right in there so all that looks wonderful um just looking here got a little uh little burr or something here i'm trying to yep rub off with my finger got it off and uh next step will be to reassemble our our valves and drop the poppets back into them so back here and said we're going to assemble our valve tops and first step is to put the o-ring back on the outside that actually mates with the beer the gas line um you should take a look and just make sure you don't have any crap going in this uh groove here and this groove tends to see a lot of beer see a lot of liquids from the fridge and then i've got my o-ring real simply just going to slide it right over with my fingers popped on there then i've got my poppet valve take it and basically just drop it right in to the to the unit and you take a look when it's seated correctly the top of it kind of comes up and makes a flush surface with the oh top surface of the nipple itself grab my other one here and stick it together and then uh we'll go back together with the keg itself so first step again uh stick your o-ring back on voila and yeah while we're off camera here i did have these soaking in star sand for about 20 minutes and clean them with a brush so the next step here is um actually putting things back together where our nipples will go back on the uh little bungs on the outside of the kit here we go with reassembly you can see i've got the nipple that had the 12 point connection on it that's our in connection i'm gonna set it on here thing you have to look at and it happened to work out perfectly here the little uh pop it shot right back up in uh the correct spot you don't wanna get that pop it kind of cattywampus in there and then have that thing uh jam on you so now i've got the um actual uh six point and that one was on the out if you recall and drop it back on here and you can see that actually i've got an issue um with the pop it there it didn't quite set up straight i'm gonna pull it back off and uh look this over one more time just to see what's going on so i've got the issues sorted out with the poppet over here um with both hands one night on the camera went right in the next time so the next step here is to torque these two down and you know for that you're back to using your wrench again just remember righty tighty lefty loosey doesn't take a tremendous amount on these things but uh you do need to you know get them torqued down so i'm gonna drop off here again torque these down and then i'll be back with you for the final i was talking about steps areas that we missed on these things and um yeah on this particular keg you can uh remove the pop-up valve out of the co2 bleed some of mine is welded in some of it's not um this one happens unscrew so i unscrewed it here and it looks nice and clean so i'm just giving it a squish in the start sanding and put it back in so the last step this process is uh doing your little clean up and overhauling the lid i've got this uh the o-ring here i've had it start soaking in star sand as well one thing i do like to do is um open the air lock here you can see i've got the uh actual key turned sideways so if i do pick up some star standing here it'll drain right through there and um clean the inside of there i think that's one of the areas we probably missed when we're cleaning these things not that i've ever had an inspection but i don't want one so um i keep it quite clean so the last step here is taking our big o ring and putting it around here i can't do it with one hand i'm sure if i took it over the top maybe i could get it on there with one hand but uh it's pretty easy to do i'm gonna stick that on and put my star sand in the actual keg and let it swish around a little bit and clean in there and then cause quits so that's it uh my whole process took less than an hour you know even with the soaking probably 15 minutes of working time 20 minutes of soaking time and you got a fresh new keg that doesn't leak on you and not going to infect you hope you enjoyed it you