[THC] Interest in buying corny kegs

[Dr. L.A. Swihart]

Kaufman, Michael E. wrote:

>Does anybody use this site.
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>http://www.rcbequip.com/index2.ivnu
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>I have gotten several things from them and I think they would sale
>pallets of kegs if asked. Also you might just try calling Pepsi/coke
>bottling locally they might have a bunch as they are starting to move to
>a bag and box system instead of premix.   
>  
>

Pepsi = ball lock kegs which are slightly taller and a shade smaller 
diameter.
Coke = pin lock kegs which are shorter and bigger around
(the shorter height allows, I believe, stacking of two in some fridges, 
not sure, all mine are Pepsi kegs)


I will take four kegs if they come in at less than $20 total cost + S&H.

The time a year ago when we ordered two pallets of 25 was from Terry 
Denham in Sarver PA, near Pittsburgh.  Terry is great and runs (or ran) 
an Ebay store and has/had great ratings.  He's a homebrewer  who makes 
"keggles" (kegs into kettles) as a sideline.    We were happy with the 
deal.  Two pallets = 50 kegs cost was $500 NOT INCLUDING the S&H.  John 
Blichmann arranged the shipping and took receipt of them at his 
warehouse in south east Lafayette, and he paid shipping and we paid him 
back.  It was $153.03 for the shipping but I suspect that if John had 
not been in charge of it, we'd have paid quite a bit more. 

The purchase was split between us and a guy in Lexington who agreed to 
buy 20 of them at $10 each plus shipping.  We didn't have more than 
about 30 kegs worth of interest at this end at the time, so it's what we 
did.  We paid for the kegs and shipping and gave this guy in Lexington 
(Ken Klein) 20 of them for $280. 

There were five kegs that were imperfect -- two out of Ken's 20 and 
three out of our 30 -- I did it that way on purpose, it was not a 
coincidence..  These five wouldn't keep pressure for known or unknown 
reason, but we priced the 30 that we sold in a way that recovered that 
money, and then we let people have them for parts cheap ($10 I think).  
We sold the 30 to club members for $16 each and to non-club members for 
21.  (That included new o-rings in and out.  We made something like $50 
overall on the whole deal.

Jake -- I am trying to find Terry Denham and see if he still does this.  
If so I will give you his contact info.