Kegerator Day 2 – A Sunday

 

I am by myself for day 2, and most of the projects are, or should be, one person jobs. After a lot of internet searching we have determined that the tap handles we want are just to darn expensive and that of course we can make them....Here is the link for what were will be going for.     Tap Handles

Back from day 2 shopping trip #1 (time on receipt 1:20 pm) with a bag full of old school table legs, and various screws, bolts and nuts and chalkboard paint. After a quick analysis of the table legs it was clear that “one of these things is not like the other”, so back in the car I go.

Back from trip #2 (time on receipt 2:19 pm) with 4 more table legs and some other screws and stuff that I think might be useful in attaching a table leg to a beer tap, and another piece of wood to the top of a table leg. I was so wrong it was not even funny. My first thought on how to complete these taps was to put insert nuts into both the top of the tap handle and the piece of wood with the chalkboard. This turned out to be a complete failure because the only way I could get the tap screws in was to screw them in with pliers which completely pinched the sides not allowing anything to be screwed into them. It was time for a change of strategy and another trip to the store.

Back from trip #3 (time on receipt 4:40 pm) with new table legs and bolts.  My new strategy is to cut a hole with my new awesome drill bit, glue nuts into the hole that I create, and the use those nuts to screw onto the tap. Problem one that I encounter is that I need 2 nuts to fill the hole, so I gorilla glued two of them together and speed bump 1 was overcome. At this point I am waiting on my wife to get back from a baby shower and take some time to move my lager to the secondary fermenter.

Now the time has come to cut our chalkboard toppers so I get the guidance from the wife and go to it. This went really well, and without any mistakes ended up with 3.5 x 3.5 1x6’s and 3x3 pieces of balsa wood for the chalkboards. All we could do for the rest of the day was stain everything, paint the chalkboards and rest up for the work week and day 3.

Pictures of the semi-finished chalkboards and tap handles.  The screw on top of the handle is double sided and will hopefully hold the chalkboard top when all is said and done.

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"Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire" - David Rains Wallace