BeerPal wrote:...I can't open the lid very much to get ice in with the keg inside. I'm thinking I'll have to defeat the hinge and simply lift the lid off when I want to put ice in.
Problem solved! It turns out the little "hinge pins" are really nothing more than small, round tabs that are easily pried out of their receiver holes in the hinge body with a flathead screwdriver. So it looks as if removing the lid to fill the cooler with ice while the keg is in place can be easily done with no additional modification to the lid.