DIY Drip Trays - I call them "The Fellas"

Simple but should be effective. Now if only my faucets would show up.

PS - The phallic nature of the end product was not intended.

Well, it'll look less phallic once the towers are installed. On the other hand, hopefully it'll be giving you great head on your beer, so that kind of offsets that.

That gets the Ace and Gary seal of approval!



Nice work citizen!!

cock n balls! HAHAH! Awesome!

Don't know what it is...but my SWMBO seems a bit more beer-eager.....

Lurve yer work!

...could you make the taps like a prince albert?

Thanks. Ya know...sometimes when you hang around Lowe's long enough...ideas just present themselves...

DO the mouting screws screw in to the pipe coupler or are they just there to keep the strainers from sliding off?

My 4" three faucet tower is a ***** to find a drip tray for. So these will do the trick.

BierMuncher said:

Don't know what it is...but my SWMBO seems a bit more beer-eager.....

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My SWMBO is in favor of getting one of those. she said we could put it right by the dryer in the laundry room. LMFAO she was kidding.... wasent she

....and the protein content of your beer is how much?

That's a real nice setup. I wonder though, when you dispense the product say, a light ale, what images come to mind then. Great idea, all the same.

Dennys Fine Consumptibles said:

DO the mouting screws screw in to the pipe coupler or are they just there to keep the strainers from sliding off?

My 4" three faucet tower is a ***** to find a drip tray for. So these will do the trick.

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No, they're strickly for appearance. They and the strainers are held down with a couple drops of superglue.

Thinking it over, I could have glued some sort of plastic cleat inside the edge of the PVC and then used those to drive the screws into. I'll have to see how the superglue performs.

Yeah, drip trays are rediculously expensive. For the past three weeks, everything I looked at when at the hardware store...I tried to figure a way to turn it into a drip tray.

I have to tip my Wiezen glasses out from under the taps now.

The Shirrons have a longer beak than other faucets.

It is a good idea, but I can't use it without getting a taller tap.

homebrewer_99 said:

I have to tip my Wiezen glasses out from under the taps now.

The Shirrons have a longer beak than other faucets.

It is a good idea, but I can't use it without getting a taller tap.

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You could cut the couplers in half or just by soome 4" pvc pipe and cut to length.

Dennys Fine Consumptibles said:

You could cut the couplers in half or just by soome 4" pvc pipe and cut to length.

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I don't have a drip tray at all and the tip of the tap is already in the glass. The least I need to do is buy an extension.

Is your tower just made from ABS as well? Good idea. It looks shiny and spiffy in the picture though... much nicer than the sewer pipe in the hardware store.. did you have to polish it?

Keegan

PS: Please don't post pictures of you polishing your tower.

mrkeeg said:

Is your tower just made from ABS as well? Good idea. It looks shiny and spiffy in the picture though... much nicer than the sewer pipe in the hardware store.. did you have to polish it?

Keegan

PS: Please don't post pictures of you polishing your tower.

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Just plain old PVC. The trick was to get a high gloss laquer made for plastic. Lowes carries it and it worked well.

Dennys Fine Consumptibles said:

You could cut the couplers in half or just by soome 4" pvc pipe and cut to length.

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Actually I did cut the couplers in half, just shy of the inner ridge. That ridge is what the plastic caps attach to, to make the bottom. I wanted to go a bit shorter...but I just didn't want my fingers any closer to the chop saw than they already were.

Here's mine. I used a 4" drain stuck into a 4" end cap. Then took some carbon looking adhesive film I had laying around and covered it. I need to paint the inside balck so the white doesn't show. Should have done that first but I was impatient. lol

I discovered the 4" drain when I couldn't find the darin covers you used. Damn home depot didn't carry them.

DFC...they look great. Get that inside blacked out and they'll blend right in.

Oh...and...WTF are you doing up at 2 in the morning...?:cross:

What's a faucet ?

BierMuncher said:

DFC...they look great. Get that inside blacked out and they'll blend right in.

Oh...and...WTF are you doing up at 2 in the morning...?:cross:

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Well, it was only 12:40am here. lol

Nice! Add some handles like these and you have yourself quite a system!

EdWort said:

Nice! Add some handles like these and you have yourself quite a system!

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I like those. Except they're kind of phallic looking.

Maybe that's why I like them...

Not that there's anything WRONG with that....

EdWort said:

Nice! Add some handles like these and you have yourself quite a system!

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Interestic faucet condoms of the leftmost two. With resivour tip, even!

Do non of you guys use these things.

Sadly, not ribbed for her (SWMBO?) pleasure.

Gloworm said:

What's a faucet ?

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It's what these strange American types call a tap. Except when it's on a bottling bucket, when they call it a spigot.

It .... is .... ALIVE!!!!!!

Nvm...