sleizure
Active Member
Hi all, For the past 2 (!) months I've been trying to fake making a 6 tap Keezer.
Some things that I have learned the hard way:
- I should never be allowed to use power tools
- You don't get alot done when you start drinking out of the existing Kegerator
- Wood is expensive, measure properly
- A plan helps, not just winging it each time
- Having the proper tools goes along way
- 1/4" is not actually 1/4" nor is a 2" by 4"
- Wood is strong, anything more than bare minimum is overengineering
- You should be hiring other people to do this stuff.
So some backstory. I have a 2 tap Insignia Kegerator which has served me just fine, but I've just been able to move into a house that the wife has let me take over the basement and do what I want with it. Obviously I need 6 taps of beer down there, so I began scouring over hundreds of threads on HBT wondering how I could go about doing mine. I figured I was coming high from success from another basement project (monster in wall fishtank) and I could certainly do this, it's not hard right? Wrong. Here's a running log with photos and some choice commentary at where I've gone wrong each step of the way.
Some things that I have learned the hard way:
- I should never be allowed to use power tools
- You don't get alot done when you start drinking out of the existing Kegerator
- Wood is expensive, measure properly
- A plan helps, not just winging it each time
- Having the proper tools goes along way
- 1/4" is not actually 1/4" nor is a 2" by 4"
- Wood is strong, anything more than bare minimum is overengineering
- You should be hiring other people to do this stuff.
So some backstory. I have a 2 tap Insignia Kegerator which has served me just fine, but I've just been able to move into a house that the wife has let me take over the basement and do what I want with it. Obviously I need 6 taps of beer down there, so I began scouring over hundreds of threads on HBT wondering how I could go about doing mine. I figured I was coming high from success from another basement project (monster in wall fishtank) and I could certainly do this, it's not hard right? Wrong. Here's a running log with photos and some choice commentary at where I've gone wrong each step of the way.