Mobile kegerator build thread
 

So it begins...

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The keg will be chilled in ice, dispensed with a paintball CO2 tank and regulator and use a picnic tap for the first rev. A more integrated tap system will come later.

I'll update the thread as I go. Questions and speculation on the end product are welcome :)

-Joe

Very cool. Hre is another type of portable Kegerator for 2.5 gallon Kegs: The Brewing Network.com - The-Portable-Kegerator | Beer-Gadgets. It would be nice if you could insulate yours somehow for the real hot summer days. I am gonna try making one out of this bad boy over the winter:

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Fabulous idea. I happened to have this green funnel thing that's used for filling those paper yard waste bags. It's the perfect size! Gives me room for about 3/4" of insulation all around.

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So first I had to seal the bottom. Turns out I had a pre-cut circle from another project that precisely fit in the hole, popping under the lip and staying in place on its own. 14" egg-zactly.

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Then I cut a piece of pink hard foam to fit and used expanding foam to fill the gaps on the sides and hold it firmly in place.

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I'll be fiberglassing the inside to seal everything up water tight.

-Joe

Couple more progress pix. Putting the inner liner in place and spacing it out with foam blocks so I can use my expanding foam with the extendo-wand (tm) to start filling in the space. This crap gets everywhere. I wish I could find the two-part pour-in foam locally, but this'll have to do.

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-Joe

Very ingenious! Nice work so far.

And so we continue. Here's the inner liner with the foam sprayed in.

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Turning some MDF disks on the lathe.

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The disks will seal the top of the bucket.

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Does this picture give too much away? ;)

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-Joe

Hehehe! That's going to be awesome.

-Steve

A few more. Blocking out the round shapes in foam.

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Roughing the shapes out on the lathe.

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A double-check that the keg still fits :)

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Now I've got to figure out how to do the eyes.

-Joe

Friggin' Awesome. I think that's the biggest thing I've ever seen turned on a lathe by the way

benderator?