I definitely used more Envirotex than I was expecting. I ordered the 1 gallon kit off Amazon (64 oz jug of resin and 64 oz jug of hardener) for I think $79. It's going to be close, but I think it's going to be just barely enough.
A church key bottle opener definitely helps. Most key chain bottle openers mangle caps pretty bad. I did use a pair of pliers on a lot of caps that had bent edges.
I poured the first 2 layers of Envirotex. It's looking good!
It was about how easy I thought it was. The amount of bubbles in the resin panicked me at first, but using a heat gun removed them quickly.
I'm going to put one more coat across the entire surface as a few caps that were a little...
So I picked up this 3 way secondary regulator. Does anyone know if these are just shut offs, or shutoffs with check valves? Taprite's website doesn't seem helpful saying either way.
It was definitely more caps than I was expecting. Laying caps out on a surface 1/3 of the size and x3 was extremely helpful for my planning.
And there is no miller cap! I made a point to not use any bud/bud light/miller/coors caps. I didn't want it to look like a college fraternity beer pong...
Over the last 2 weekends I put on 2 coats of black paint and cut holes for my 3 faucet draft tower and drip tray I scavenged from a different project.
Next is going to be the time consuming process of glueing the 1200+ bottle caps!
I'll see if I can put a list together. The wood and some other parts were things I already had, so I'll have to estimate prices for those.
I'm going to use a ranco temp controller for now (I use it for my fermentation temp control currently). I might switch to something else later