Floating dip tube connection

[Davegase]

Seems cheap

I've been using them for about a year and a half now , I've not had any problems and it gives you options.
I bought 2 of them !

 

[bez]

Is that the ones from alibaba.

 

[Davegase]

Is that the ones from alibaba.

Kegland shop on AliExpress !

 

[JockyBrewer]

Those lids are available cheap from a UK seller too: Keg Lid Carbonating device - Get Er Brewed

I have a couple.

 

[peebee]

Well, that didn't work! I haven't tried the "assembly", but I did replace the keg with a second keg of that beer. The extractor failed to operate properly in that too!

Two odd failures with the same brew. Coincidence? ... There's something in the beer! Oo-err!

Well, looks like the "assembly" has its work cut out for a few weeks! (I fill via the dip-tube, transferred by diaphragm pump and a coarse filter must be in place with those pumps or the diaphragm is at risk ... but since filling, something bunged it up).

There flippin' was something in the beer! Hops! Pelleted hops I've only just taken to throwing in free after fermentation. The first gauze doesn't stop them all, the stuff just ends up on the gauze in the extractor floats and bungs 'em up. Well, I can look on the bright side, if they didn't bung up the extractor, I'll have not noticed the festering mass in the pump's filter waiting to mess up my next brew.

My alternative to @Davegase's floating dip-tubes (thanks for that idea) will be coming to the rescue now.