New and Need Some Help

It looks to be a glycol cooled jockey box. I'm sure @billandsuz will know. What is your goal with this thing - using at a party for a day or keeping beer on tap at home? If the latter, without a fridge to store the keg in, something like this won't be much help. For long term storage a keg has to be kept cold.

 

If you are getting a fridge for the kegs, you might as well just do a through the door shank set up. I think you are going to spend a lot of money on this sketchy set up and possibly not be happy with it anyway. That thing is designed for remote dispensing at parties or bars.

If you want to do remote, just get a nice tower and mount that instead of the giant box you have.

 

Wait for Bill, he will be able to give you a professional installers perspective.

 

Interesting. Netherlands. For $20 it's a nice find, even if you just use the faucets off of it.

 

Well, this thing is anything BUT plug & play...it'll be more like plug & pray.

It's a commercial unit produced in the Netherlands most likely for use in a stadium concession capacity from the late '60's or early '70's. Gamko is still in business, but this was state of the art technology back in the day as evidenced by the Cool Technique (KoelTechniek)

In the first picture, the in/out stainless fittings on the left are for glycol. The glycol tubes are intertwined with the beer lines to provide cooling. That entire section is designed as a water-bath to cool the beer. The section on the right contains the condenser.

This is basically a self-contained jockey box and not practical for home use because of the high CO² pressure needed to push the beer. Kegs will eventually become overcarbed and will pour nothing but shaving cream.

I'm with NeroFiddled on this one...it's a nice find. Impractical, but a nice find nonetheless.

 

Pretty cool. Mr. Ace said most everything nicely so no need to repeat.

You'll go through hell getting that to work properly on 120/60Hz. The faucets and shanks are Euro and could be used, repaired, maintained but you'll wish you had domestic faucets.

There is one other really big thing you need to address. Domestic keg beer, with few exceptions, is not pasteurized and needs to be kept cold. This unit is intended to pour beer for a short time, like a party or at a stadium. The kegs can be allowed to warm up because the glycol line chills to serving temp. But warm storage of keg beer results in spoiled beer. So it is not an option for home use. That much can't be changed.

I think you have some value in scrap stainless. Oh, you'll need to pay a fee to remove the freon or certify the freon has been removed before scrapping or disposal. So, $20 purchase. $10 scrap. $20 freon fee. You're out $10. I'm doing the math in my head here...