Sanky Valve...what to do with it!!

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Sanky Valve...what to do with it!!

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I removed the valve from my keg a while back, and now it sits on my bench...staring at me. I cant seem to come up with a reasonable use for it, other than a good whoopin stick. You guys find a good way to re-purpose these things? :?
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I was thinking about trying to fashion mine into a racking cane combo whooppin stick.
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:lol: You got a genuine "laugh out loud" from me on that one...I was thinking the same thing, I just wanna keep its whoopin stick capabilities intact :ewink: . Even if there is a non-stilling bastardization for it, im wide open for ideas...thanks for the laugh
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Any other ideas? Im sure there are hundreds that have been pulled out over the years by youse guys! The racking cane Idea is the only one that comes to mind, but still...i hate wasting things
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I have used one to wind a coil around.

I agree with you. They 'appear' to be VERY useful. But I can think of few things, other than a racking cane, that they are good for.

One other thing I can 'think' of would be a stainless parrot. But with the ease I can solder copper, building a stainless one (for me at least), would not make it any easier to do.

It might be useful for some form of tubing for a drain valve in the bottom of a boiler. Also, if you built a double boiler, it might be used as a vent tube to the double boiler part (or even a fill tube).

Those are a few things I could think of. Lot of uses for tubing, and the valve tube IS a nice tube, but for many things, it is just too small diameter.

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use it for what it was made for. put an extension on it, and schrader valve and put it back in your keg when your done running, and use air pressure to empty the keg. cob
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Save it, if you ever get into beer making it might come in handy for spare parts.
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A burner if you knew what you were doing

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Pretty cool video. I like the intensity of the flame thrower there, although I dont have much use for a WMD like that. Think my banjo burner will fit the bill. :)

[quote="CoOkEd"]A burner if you knew what you were doing

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it seemed to me that if someone didn't know how to work with gas it has the potential to be unsafe. I meant no disrespect towards you, just a warning to potential viewers of the this thread to err on the side of caution
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With the valve head still attached, they make a good club.

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No hook it's not just you. I've been thinking tire thumped.
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cooked, i understand the need for a disclaimer, that thing is seriously intense! no problems over here man, i dont want you comin at me with that thang!

im still hanging on to it, if for nothing else, a whoopin stick...for...tires...right :twisted:
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Tater made me a nice potstill fittin' outta one.

I haven't used my big still since I moved to an apartment, but I still have my keg and that nice fittin'.
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got any pictures? thats a great idea
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I've found a good use for the valve head.

I attached it to the end of some silicon tube (split one end of the tube into "tendrils" and wrapped with thin copper wire ) and use it for raking DWWG.

The weight of the valve head is good ~ I should put a cotton "sock" around it to help filter the wheat germ.

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I know I am digging up an old thread but I was hoping for some input. I was thinking of using my valve for the hydrometer portion of a parrot but is it big enough not to cause issues with the hydraulic effect on the Alcolimiter.
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The tube needs to be about 1"diameter unless you have a thin alcometer, otherwise a narrow tube will hydrolic giving a false reading, also copper is easier to solder than stainless.


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theholymackerel wrote:Tater made me a nice potstill fittin' outta one.

thinkin the same thing. yea does anyone have any pics of this
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I have no problem tig welding so working in stainless isn't much harder that working with copper. What inside dimensions are people seeing for their valves?
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I was planning on drilling a hole in the bottom of a stainless pot from goodwill and tig weld the valve to the bottom of the pot to make a nice funnel when pouring the wash in to the keg. Just a thought. 8)

The non Sanky valves (on Miller kegs) are even better for this because these are threaded into the keg neck.
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Mine was placed in the back of my car and renamed...

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i used mine for a transfer case shift knob in my truck
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One of mine was made into a hydrometer jar. I just used some of the tube and a piece of flat stainless for the base...

another became a funnel when welded upside down onto a cut off keg top.

another became a holder for GAC and connected by stainless lines to a corny keg. A pressurized carbon filter. :esurprised: Worked ok, but a hassle and not really needed...

another became the barrel to a potato cannon used to keep the squirrels off the bird feeders. WAY too much fun...
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junkyard dawg wrote: another became the barrel to a potato cannon used to keep the squirrels off the bird feeders. WAY too much fun...
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I've seen guys take the 12 inch disc of stainless (that is commonly removed from the top of the Sanke keg to make a boil kettle) and then taking the valve, hammer the ends flat, and then weld or bolt this to the 12 disc of stainless shaped/bent as a handle for this new lid. Usually then washers are welded at 3 to 4 points on the disc and this is what holds the lid from falling through.

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Its pretty simple... There is a 4" pvc pipe, capped on one end with a shraeder valve mounted in it. The other end is reduced down to a 3/4" fitting that connects to an electric sprinkler valve. coming out the other end of the sprinkler valve is a fitting that the stainless tube is soldered to. This needed a little grinding to make it fit, but easy enough. I used a little box from radio shack and a nine volt battery to actuate the sprinkler valve. just push the stainless tube into a potato so it gets a little 'slug' inside. Push it down to the base with a stick, air it up, push the button... valve opens, air rushes out... potato flies, squirrels run... That one has since been dismantled. The parts went into a 2" pneumatic spud gun. This big one is really powerful... It would easily kill small critters. I stuff a paper towel wadding in there and fill it with a cup or so of deer corn to 'erase' wasp nests. :mrgreen:
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I just flattened out a piece of copper,cut a disc out of it and punched a few holes to make a screen.
You could also use it to hang something into your wash !
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