I don't use keggles, so I've always wondered: is the polishing for aesthetics, or does it serve another purpose?
Aesthetics because it looks nicer, easier to keep clean as well. I personally like the polished look of it. It does not make it any more functional though. It is also a good way to clean up an old keg for a high temp Powder coating on it as well. if you choose that route.
This is so amazing haha I love it
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Very cool. Next step is to make it mobile and provide keg polishing services at beer fests and competitions. A weighted inside polishing arm might be nice. Perhaps a sledge covered with a pad? Once you're mobile you could do driveway service like the knife sharpeners of my youth.
Are you a crazy dragon?
I love your method, but I would never stick my hand and arm inside a spinning drum. A sledge on a pivot with a tensioner may do the trick and definitely more safely.
Nice and clean, but you've still got plenty of work to do to call it polished. I think you have more of a brushed finish now. I could still see the lathe shaving off a lot of back breaking work, but the polish step would benefit from mounting terry cloth buffing wheels on a polisher or angle grinder.
Yeah well I do expect some blemish from heat but then I can put it back on and turn it on. With it spinning like a lathe all I gotta do it hold an abrasive on it.
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Please post a video of re-polishing after fittings are installed
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