Source for 4-faucet draft tower

[Mill Rat]

I am looking for a single-column 4-faucet fraft tower for my newly acquired kegerator, preferably with an air baffle. My preference is for a T-tower. I have checked out Micromatic, Bev Factory, Perlick, etc, and found the new equipment prices a bit steep. I also have a couple items I'm tracking on flea-bay. If someone has one gathering dust with which they'd consider parting for reasonable compensation, please reply.

[Mill Rat]

Well, I gave up on the flea-bay search, and decided to buy new. Since I already had all the shanks and faucets I'd need, there was little point in buying a tee tower with a whole 'nother set of them.

I ordered a 4-hole 12" wide bare tee tower with a 4" dia single column in stainless from American Coffee & urn (www.acumetalfab.com) and they lightened my load by $167 and another $15 to get UPS to lug it from LA to Chicago. It arrived in pristine condition, well packaged and protected.

The construction is very solid, and there's plenty of room in the top for the shanks and hoses. The welding is top-notch. The 4" column is a very good idea, a 3" would have left little room for both the beer lines and an air baffle. The insulation in the column is good quality foam rubber, and they include a foam rubber gasket for mounting the column to the kgrtr.

My only quibbles are that the insulation in the tee top is styrofoam instead of the foam rubber, though I suppose that makes it easier to find replacements when it gets dinged,and their packaging included a sheet of the same strofoam sheet, so maybe that's spare material for when I muck it up?. They also do not offer an air baffle, so I guess I'm going to spend a little quality time with my air-driven metal shears this weekend.

My overall evaluation is that this is a solid commercial-duty product. If you do not have shanks and faucets yet, you may be able to equally well price and quality-wise buying from Micromatic or a similar outfit, but I don't think you could do much better. If you have the faucet hardware and don't want a pile of duplicate equipment cluttering your bar, you can't get a pre-assembled tower with the parts you want, or you can find a better deal piecing your tower together, this is one nice source for a bare tower.