Gas Leak Detection

[johnny_cash]

Hello,

I am a beer tech in Canada and am finding as of late alot of clients complaining and suffering from gas loss from their systems. The cause is due to poor connections to gas manifolds, missing beer nut washers, etc. Currently I am using soapy water on potential leak areas as an indicator of a leak, as well as submerging couplers (sankeys) in water buckets to determine leaks, etc. In this age of technology where we are putting people on the Moon and have a floating space station, what are my options for an easier and more technologically advanced way of detecting the origin of both mixed gas leaks and CO2 leaks in a system.

Any product suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated! If you could rank your suggestions according to what works the best and is the most time efficient (regardless of cost) that would be very helpfull.

Cheers,
Mike

[madmax]

What I have been using on my own kegerator is "leak tek". This stuff is used for detecting the slightest leaks in propane /natural gas installtions. This stuff is so good I swear it would react to a mosquito fart! Pricey but it works great!

[Scott Zuhse]

This leak detector may get you close and then use soapy water or Windex.

Scott Zuhse, Instructor Micro Matic Dispense Institute

[Macksmith]

I contact Pool leak repair service for this problem they are multitalented and can perform variety of work,they use 30 second smoke bombs. I just had one the other week. Poor people where getting bad smells every now and then.They explained to the them about the peppermint oil and that they put it down the vent stack on the roof. So they went outside to see how steep the roof where the vent stack comes out. To my surprise there was no vent stack. they went into his attic, and sure enough there is the vent stack, stopped about about 2 feet below the roof venting away in the attic. House is a year and half old.