Kegco SEDP-220D Drip Tray, 12', Stainless Steel

I hate for any beer to go to waste, but this drip tray handles the sad task exceptionally well. And it looks good doing it too. Nice craftsmanship.

I recently built an outdoor kitchen and I wanted to add my kegorator but for those who have a kegorator they know how nasty that tray below the taps can get. So I wanted one that that would never fill up and that I could simply dump water down to clean. This fit the bill perfectly. Let me first start with prior reviewers complaints.....Yes the corner of mine was bent. Putting it on a flat surface and a few taps from a rubber mallet fixed that. Issue number two was that it was a flat bottom so liquid isn't forced down the drain. Yes that is true and kind of annoying but dumping a cup of water down the drain seems to do the trick.One thing I never thought of was clearance. I installed my kegorator under the counter top and this drip tray above but I kept it very tight. Granite was 3/4 of an inch, plus about 1 inch framing so I had a 2 inches to work with and the drain tube comes straight down about 1 1/4 inch and then it sits resessed about 3/4 of an inch so it didn't fit. The drain tube seemed rather large for the size. After several trips to the home improvement store with my drip tray in hand I found a 1/2 PVC elbow that seemed to do the trick. I first cut off a majority of the drain plug leaving me about 1/2. The 1/2 PVC elbow didn't quite fit so I used a heat gun to heat it up quickly stretched it around the drain plug. I siliconed the PVC elbow in place and the other side of the elbow was threaded so I purchased a male threaded tapered barb connector and attached the tubing to that. I have been using it for about a month and while it took some macgyvering to get working its working beaufullyI gave removed one star because I think they need an tight elbow connector on the bottom vs the straight connector.

Same corner mysteriously bent in the same way as documented by another reviewer. Leads me to believe this could be a manufacturering defect. For that, one star.

This was perfect for my duel tapper on my outdoor bar. It looks great and works perfect!!

Overall it's not bad but one major complaint is that the tray is not tapered so nothing flows to the drain. It just fills up in the base of the tray.

One piece the flange corner is damaged (bent).

The tray itself is very nice and solid construction and looks good. One correction though - the threaded connection on the bottom is 1/2" NPT, not 3/4 as stated in the description. I have a countertop version that came with my kegerator but I am building a bar and wanted a flush mounted drip tray. As some reviewers noted, the lip that sits on top of the countertop is prone to being bent. Mine was fortunately not as bent as others and I was able to straighten it out with a pliers.The biggest problem is that this needs a lot of space between kegerator and countertop. I originally used a 1/2" PVC threaded by threaded elbow to screw to the drip tray and screwed a 1/2" threaded by 1/2" hose barb into the other the other side of the elbow. After screwing this on as far as I could and accounting for the over 3/4" depth of the drip tray itself the total clearance required from top of kegerator to top of countertop was approaching 3-1/2". This put my cabinet countertop over 37", and worse, the bar top was over 43" (standard is 42" and that is what bar stools are built for). Fortunately I saw the old 2018 review by Scott S and improved on it just a bit. I cut off the entire threaded portion of the bottom connection so only the unthreaded portion was left. Instead of using a pvc fitting I used a blue 1/2" female NPT by 1/2" hose barb irrigation fitting from Home Depot as shown in the picture (called "blue twister elbow"). I wrapped some rough sand paper around a dowel and put the end in a drill and sanded out the threads from the fitting. It was still a couple hundreds of an inch too small diameter so I heated it a little with a heat gun and the plastic got pretty soft and I slid the blue fitting on the drip tray stub and pushed it down as far as it would go. As it cooled, it did not shrink tight to form a seal as I hoped it would, but stayed deformed and was loose on the drip tray. So I put a hose clamp on it and reheated just enough so it was soft again, tightened the hose clamp a little, and let it cool. The plastic gets pretty soft so don't tighten the hose clamp too much or it will just squeeze the plastic out. But a slightly snug fit will make sure the plastic is in contact with the drip tray all the way around so it won't leak. After completely cooling it is now nice and tight and I don't think there is any way it will leak (it's only a drain after all). I may put a bead of caulk between the fitting and bottom of the drip tray just to be sure, but only because I have some other caulking to do so I'll have a tube of caulk ready to go, but I think that's overkill. Note that it does not take much heat to make the fitting soft. I used a heat gun on lowest setting but I bet a hair dryer would work. The1/2" hose barb end fits nicely into a 5/8" ID hose, and the hose also fits on to a dishwasher fitting on the sink drain pipe.This saved just over 1". In the picture, the overall distance from the face of the drip tray (facing down) to the top of the blue hose barb is just under 2-1/2"

Great craftmanship.