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Corny Crud
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Bart Goddard
2013-05-25 14:10:23 UTC
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I have a couple cornies I'm trying to clean up.
Most of the crud came loose with a two hour
hot-water-and-Oxyclean soak. But they both have
a ring around the bottom that wouldn't yield to
a second, overnight, double strength soak.
I put my paddle in there and chipped away at
it. Sometime chunks came off, but other
sections might as well have been a weld bead.

What's left to try? Wirebrush wheel on a stick
powered by my hammerdrill? Drano and boiling
water? Small thermonuclear device?

My daughter is built like Olive Oyl and lives just
across town. She could probably reach down there
with a ChoreGirl, but I'm a little afraid of scratching
up the inside.

By the way, the sprayer thing worked great. The hose
on the sprayer was exactly the size to accept the gas
keg connector. So all I needed was a worm clamp, and
now I have free pressure.

Bart
Tom Biasi
2013-05-25 16:19:08 UTC
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Post by Bart Goddard
I have a couple cornies I'm trying to clean up.
Most of the crud came loose with a two hour
hot-water-and-Oxyclean soak. But they both have
a ring around the bottom that wouldn't yield to
a second, overnight, double strength soak.
I put my paddle in there and chipped away at
it. Sometime chunks came off, but other
sections might as well have been a weld bead.
What's left to try? Wirebrush wheel on a stick
powered by my hammerdrill? Drano and boiling
water? Small thermonuclear device?
My daughter is built like Olive Oyl and lives just
across town. She could probably reach down there
with a ChoreGirl, but I'm a little afraid of scratching
up the inside.
By the way, the sprayer thing worked great. The hose
on the sprayer was exactly the size to accept the gas
keg connector. So all I needed was a worm clamp, and
now I have free pressure.
Bart
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I use a power washer on old kegs. There is an attachment called a
'grenade' that works really well.
This is of no help to you if you can't get your hands on one.

Tom
Bob F
2013-05-26 17:21:41 UTC
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Post by Bart Goddard
I have a couple cornies I'm trying to clean up.
Most of the crud came loose with a two hour
hot-water-and-Oxyclean soak. But they both have
a ring around the bottom that wouldn't yield to
a second, overnight, double strength soak.
I put my paddle in there and chipped away at
it. Sometime chunks came off, but other
sections might as well have been a weld bead.
What's left to try? Wirebrush wheel on a stick
powered by my hammerdrill? Drano and boiling
water? Small thermonuclear device?
My daughter is built like Olive Oyl and lives just
across town. She could probably reach down there
with a ChoreGirl, but I'm a little afraid of scratching
up the inside.
By the way, the sprayer thing worked great. The hose
on the sprayer was exactly the size to accept the gas
keg connector. So all I needed was a worm clamp, and
now I have free pressure.
Have a neighbor with a pressure washer?
Bart Goddard
2013-06-01 17:25:50 UTC
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Post by Bob F
Have a neighbor with a pressure washer?
I'm not "way ahead of you", but I'm 1.3 seconds ahead of you.
Why, yes, Mick DOES have a pressure washer and he DOES like
my beer.

But in the end, I got Olive Oyl over here and she went in with
a green scratchy pad and got the crud out. She happens to be
the secretary at our church, and when she went to work the
next day, Herr Pastor wanted to know who had been man-handling
her. The mouth of the kegs had left bruises on her upper
arm that looked just like angry-boyfriend prints.

I'm shopping for a pressure washer.

B.

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