FiddlersGreen87
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Well I have been lurking around these forums for a few weeks now with a post or two here and there. I've been reading endless articles on making a keggle, and picked up a keg a couple weeks ago.
I finally got a break from my Cisco course today, and don't fly out for the 4th until tomorrow, so with the wife out of the house I took to my free time with a fury. I have been trying to locate a machine shop in Augusta for weeks now that would use a plasma cutter and cut the keg for me. After being told the cost of 15 minutes of work was going to run me from 35-95$ depending on who I went to and reading some reports of people dealing with nasty slag issues I decided to bite the bullet, buy a grinder, and do it myself.
I used PassedPawn's method of a jig which really worked well. I ran into a little trouble, but got 90% of the cut done without issue and finished up the last bit by hand. I can't imagine doing this freehand. Anyways, my intent is to use a clear lid when brewing because I don't want any pesky nats (GA has a lot of em), dog hair (golden retriever), and anything else falling into my wort.
I plan to clean up a little bit of the edges once my lid comes in to make sure it fits nice, and then polish it and get a great shine out of it. For now though my day is done, and my keggle is sitting in the tub with 15 gallons of scalding hot water and oxiclean. The lady I bought it from said it belonged to her uncle who passed away, and they found it in his shed. She'd had it for over a year, so the remaining beer and residue has been well aged. In other words, it cost me $20 and it'll be soaking with oxiclean for the 4th of July weekend till I get back next Monday.
The cut went well. Probably shouldn't have been using a power tool plugged into a wall outlet cutting a giant metal can filled with water during a thunderstorm... but eh I'm still here.
Can't brew just yet, still some more work and a few more pieces of equipment to get, so here's my reward for a hard days work.
I finally got a break from my Cisco course today, and don't fly out for the 4th until tomorrow, so with the wife out of the house I took to my free time with a fury. I have been trying to locate a machine shop in Augusta for weeks now that would use a plasma cutter and cut the keg for me. After being told the cost of 15 minutes of work was going to run me from 35-95$ depending on who I went to and reading some reports of people dealing with nasty slag issues I decided to bite the bullet, buy a grinder, and do it myself.
I used PassedPawn's method of a jig which really worked well. I ran into a little trouble, but got 90% of the cut done without issue and finished up the last bit by hand. I can't imagine doing this freehand. Anyways, my intent is to use a clear lid when brewing because I don't want any pesky nats (GA has a lot of em), dog hair (golden retriever), and anything else falling into my wort.
I plan to clean up a little bit of the edges once my lid comes in to make sure it fits nice, and then polish it and get a great shine out of it. For now though my day is done, and my keggle is sitting in the tub with 15 gallons of scalding hot water and oxiclean. The lady I bought it from said it belonged to her uncle who passed away, and they found it in his shed. She'd had it for over a year, so the remaining beer and residue has been well aged. In other words, it cost me $20 and it'll be soaking with oxiclean for the 4th of July weekend till I get back next Monday.
The cut went well. Probably shouldn't have been using a power tool plugged into a wall outlet cutting a giant metal can filled with water during a thunderstorm... but eh I'm still here.
Can't brew just yet, still some more work and a few more pieces of equipment to get, so here's my reward for a hard days work.
