The cheapest solution would be to remove liquid QDs after the session and put a pad lock on the fridge/freezer door. Adding in-line ball valves right behind the shanks would add some convenience. I like that idea with the solenoid valves.
This got me thinking, you could also design a 4-bar linkage (we used to use construction paper and pins to get the lengths right) that would actuate the valves inside the kegerator from the outside. 1/4" stainless inline valves are around $30, so this wouldn’t be cheap, and I don’t know if it would work with plastic valves.
[quote=“StormyBrew”]But they have other issues to worry about: hairy armpits and legs and strange accents just to name two. [/quote]Wouldn’t that be five things to worry about (for a regular human)?
This is what I have on mine. I haven’t had to use it yet, as my son isn’t even 2 years old, but it’s prepped & ready. A nice $12 solution, considering 4 tap locks would have been more than 10 times as much.
Well, I’ll just throw in another tangential thought since folks seem to have focused on how this relates to THEIR kids…
… regardless of how you’ve treated your own kids and the brew… for me, the issue pegs the paranoia meter when my 15 and 17 y.o. daughters have a big group of kids over to the house for a movie night, etc. RIGHT THERE BY MY KEGERATOR.
I almost always know the kids who show up… but when there is a group of kids coming over and I don’t know too many of them, I disconnect the out posts. Better safe then sorry.
Tangential soap-box rant:
The confliction of a Father is knowing his daughters well, and believing in them and their friends who you’ve also known since they were itty bitties, … but also having been a 12 year old Cold Duck drinking horn dog and KNOWING what they’re thinking about EVERY waking moment.
Sigh.
Sigh (yes, that’s a double, from the gut, SIGH).
[quote=“mtodd”]You know what they say Diesel Tonic…when you have a boy you only have to worry about 1 penis…when you have a girl you have to worry about all of them.
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