Need any Caps for an Epoxy Bartop

[jekeane]

I am working on a epoxy bar top for my beer cave and am in need of relatively straight caps. If you have a collection of them lying about you don't need let me know. I'm currently 684 out of 1634 needed... I can pay shipping etc... The more variety the better. I have an embarrising amount of Michelob Ultra and Blue moon caps that I would like to replace.

 

[uatuba]

I have a sh*t ton of BMC caps that I kept from college. Trade me a few homebrews or other good beers and they're yours.

But they are BMC caps.


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[jpalarchio]

Not helpful to you but a local bar has been doing a "paint by number" mural on their wall with bottle caps. Imagine the caps they need...

http://oneeyedbettys.com/gallery/bottle-cap-mural/

 

[jekeane]

that paint by numbers is sweet! maybe my next project...

 

[sablesurfer]

Interested! But you can't have my bottle caps, I started my collection last year for something very similar. (Even had to hunt up the one bottle opener our of the 20 we have that will pull caps of straight.)

Any thoughts on how you are going to do this? The thoughts on my project are that I will use a dab of some kind of silicone caulking under each cap to hold it in place. Let that dry and then fill over top with epoxy.

I assume you will basically build a wall around the outside of the board to hold in the epoxy?

 

[jekeane]

sable: Silicone would likely work, I was thinking a hot glue gun. I may try and fill the whole cap to avoid potential air bubbles. It's possible that placing the cap upside down then putting a flat thumbtack inside before filling it up with silicone might be the cheapest / fastest way to not get air bubbles. Then just use the cap like a big thumbtack... suppose this would depend on how hard your surface is. Im framing out the 3/4 in plywood top with 1X4's for my epoxy "borders".

 

[Evan_L]

Check with local bars, they might let ya swing by at the end of the night or next day and grab all the caps.

 

[gstrawn]

Hey let me know. I don't have a ton as I have mine to a friend recently, but pm me your address and I'll send you what I got


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[jekeane]

Evan: Yeah I gave that a try most of the places I feel comfortable asking are draft houses and if they do have bottles the waiters use a key at the table to get em open.

Gstrawn: sent a pm!

 

[uatuba]

So not interested in BMC caps? Don't really blame you, but they're more multicolored than most craft brew caps, if a mural is what you're going for.


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[MaxStout]

I have a bunch of craft beer caps, a little more than a quart jar full. They are pretty straight. I was going to use them for some craft project, but doubt I will ever get to it. If you want them, I can put them in a flat rate envelope and send them along. PM me.

 

[pointcity-homebrew]

I have some custom caps on the way one is blue with a gnarly zombie hand and the other is yellow with an old school gypsy tattoo style . I am having them made at bottlemark.

May not be what your looking for but defiantly different

J

 

[gunmetal]

If you sort the caps by color, it makes it easier to come up with a design, This is over 740 caps, and is about 2 by 3 feet, I now have well over 1600 caps.