Post your favorite homebrew stuff

[4.3LXJ]

C'mon guys and gals, let's see all the cool stuff you have made

[Pookapotamus]

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How about the fire extinguisher we converted into a gas tank for my buddies bike.


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[4.3LXJ]

So it puts the fire in the engine out :smiley-taunt002:

Why not? As much as that engine burns it should work well

[denverd1]

Oh so just homemade stuff, not homebrewing (for beer) stuff. Along those same lines, I converted a chest freezer to a kegerator. with a simple Johnson controls thermostat. then built a wood ring around the top to beer/CO2 lines, etc. I'll post a pic later.

wrapping up a steel and wood coffee table that I'll post a pic of as well.

[4.3LXJ]

HUMWEE Jr kegs his home brew in soda pop cylinders. Kegs are regulated here. He then puts them in an apartment size fridge

[Pookapotamus]

Mmmm keg!


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[4.3LXJ]

He brews really potent stuff Dana. If he goes to a party and there are people he doesn't like, he just keeps giving them beer until they pass out. Then he enjoys himself :D

[Pookapotamus]

Sounds like pookapotabrew!


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[4.3LXJ]

Dark ale actually, award winning recipe and just might qualify

[denverd1]

whats his typical ABV? brewing is fun, but can be a PITA. to that end, if I'm going through the hassle, it needs to be "effective". I'm usually in the 8-10% range.

[4.3LXJ]

You are talking a language I don't really know. You should ask him. He lurks on the site and will answer

[denverd1]

ABV = alcohol by volume.
Bud light is 4.3%
Humwee and I like 8-10%

PITA = Pain in the :ass:

[4.3LXJ]

His is higher I believe. That other stuff he calls lawn mower beer. It is the stuff you drink while working outside

[denverd1]

His is higher I believe. That other stuff he calls lawn mower beer. It is the stuff you drink while working outside

:bacondance:

[Hum Wee JR]

I have one of those thermostats as well.

[Hum Wee JR]

To be honest, I broke my refractometer about 10 years ago and never bothered to replace it. So I don't really know my abv anymore. I generally add a couple extra pounds of 2 row (barley) and 1/2 oz of hops and higher gravity yeast to my recipes. Boost the kick.

[Hum Wee JR]

Tonight's beer on tap, quadruple Carmel Belgium, brewed using a traditional old world decoction technique. One glass you feel great. 2 glasses and it's bed time. 3 glasses and your in trouble for falling asleep on the couch.

[denverd1]

Tonight's beer on tap, quadruple Carmel Belgium, brewed using a traditional old world decoction technique. One glass you feel great. 2 glasses and it's bed time. 3 glasses and your in trouble for falling asleep on the couch.That sounds delish. So your using 4:1 dry ingredients to water? Yea no telling what your ABV is but it sounds really good.

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[4.3LXJ]

I think we still have a refractometer floating around someplace. Marked for sugar content though

[denverd1]

I think we still have a refractometer floating around someplace. Marked for sugar content though

that's what we're measuring here too. sugar + yeast = happy juice

[denverd1]

Coffee table
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[denverd1]

2 lagers ready to keghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180112/a8d131da3e8e3fef20e7c85da2a5542d.jpg

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[denverd1]

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How about the fire extinguisher we converted into a gas tank for my buddies bike.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkPook that's really cool! Has he finished it? Keeping the gearing or will it be a fixed?

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[XJ Wheeler]

A couple years ago our fridge went out. It was a cheap, old freezer top unit. Not really much home"made" but we just wheeled it our back, painted it black, and used it for a tool cabinet for our cheaper tools. Plenty of space, lots of shelving, handles loads of weight, relatively weather proof, and slapped a padlock on it after making a couple brackets to lock both top and bottom together. Come to think of it, I NEED to clean it out and organize it. Tool cabinets cost too much when you have a free fridge setting around. :D

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[4.3LXJ]

They make a good place to store welding rod too

[Pookapotamus]

Pook that's really cool! Has he finished it? Keeping the gearing or will it be a fixed?

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He keeps working on it, I believe he is painting it back at the moment


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[denverd1]

Coffee table
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didn't we have a woodworking thread? I spent quite a few hours sanding that wood. Still needs poly-u but I thought it came out ok.

[4.3LXJ]

Yeah, looks nice. I have a burl wood table I am re doing. Finish is about 45 yeras old and resin needs replacing

[bluedragon436]

That's an awesome looking table... I need to learn how to source and work with wood, and welding to be able to build stuff like that... That's the kind of thing I'd love to learn how to do... I got a wood cabinet, that has been through quite a bit over the years, prior to me getting it... I've been thinking once I get a place with room to do it, that I might tear it down a bit, sand it down and refinish it... Not sure what kind of wood, it's actually made out of though... so not sure what finish it'll have...

[denverd1]

Mom saw my coffee table while over for Christmas. Said she had a line on a slab of cedar and asked if I could help her build a dining room table. She got the wood the other day, Sunday I went over with saw, cut a few feet off of it and threw in the truck. I'll start sanding on it soon.

Order a pair of 4x4" steel legs in an X pattern already welded up and ready to go. I could've done that part, but she didn't mind paying and I'm definitely happy to have that part of the project done. (jeep needs work more)

Plan is to rip the slab, router a 3/8 to 1/2" inch deep slot 3" wide on each edge of the ripped slab. separate the wood about 20" or so (final width of 42") and put piece of glass down the middle. I'll post pics later if I get to it today.

also, those pics ^^ aren't the finished product of coffee table. I'll snap a few of those as well.

[4.3LXJ]

Very cool. I have some maple burl tables, but the wife doesn't like them so we don't use them

[denverd1]

Been sanding a bit. One more round of 60 grit https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200202/f7e7b53c16c32283e5d0b577b787a9ae.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200202/5bc8fd3f063c6e1b7bf1dc30adb4e30c.jpg

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[4.3LXJ]

Very nice. Cedar always has lots of colors

[LandoMoto]

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[4.3LXJ]

Very nice little sand toy. Snowmobile engine?

[LandoMoto]

Thanks, and happy Thanksgiving. I've built a couple of these and drag bikes in the past but never esensually from scratch. There was always a donar frame that was modified. The motor is a Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa street bike motor that puts out little under 200hp this one is running 12lbs of boost and is making 312hp. The sled motors loose to much HP in there belt drive system and then have to be converted back to a chain drive. This street bike motor has a 6 speed trans in the bottom case.

[4.3LXJ]

Very nice. With that much HP it should be a real rocket