a beer keg?!?!

anyone know the max psi a beer keg will hold up to?

???, r u using it for a fuel cell?

thinkin bout using it for an air tank

150 i believe....

not enough lol just put an air tank inside of it to make it look like a keg is being used as the tank, thats what most people do. too big an air tank for me though....

I pressure tested one and could only get 120 psig (Coors 15.5 Gallon) before it started to change shape.... I pressure test pipes in plants for a living.

Don't do it !!

Beer kegs are used to hold fluid, not air.
When in use, there is approximately 12-15 PSI CO2 in the keg.

If a beer keg should fail, the fluid will absorb the impact of the failure.
If it should fail being used for air storage, it will have nothing to absorb the failure and you will have aluminum shrapnel due to the thin aluminum that the keg is made from...

Steel is malleable, and therefore stretches. Aluminum is far less malleable and tends to fracture.

Originally posted by SCINFERNL



Don't do it !!

Beer kegs are used to hold fluid, not air. When in use, there is approximately 12-15 PSI CO2 in the keg.

If a beer keg should fail, the fluid will absorb the impact of the failure. If it should fail being used for air storage, it will have nothing to absorb the failure and you will have aluminum shrapnel due to the thin aluminum that the keg is made from...

Steel is malleable, and therefore stretches. Aluminum is far less malleable and tends to fracture.



WHAT HE SAID!!! It makes a big OL BOOOOMMMM!!! I have seen it happen!

Drink the keg & make it a tank the same night

Edited: 9/24/2008 3:43:53 PM by Sltoh71

30 working psi, I would not recommend using a keg as an air tank. As said above, Build a tank to fit inside the keg. Although, kegs are no longer made of aluminum, they are now made of stainless steel. The old kegs are made of aluminum.