stevaughn11
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I decided to build a portable keg cooler, inspired by another thread on this board, but wanted to add taps. Originally, I hadn't planned on making this thing look very fancy, but mid through making it (a few month process just from being busy and out of town) I decided to use it in my upcoming wedding and make it look nice. Keep in mind i'm not that great at woodworking but thought this thing turned out pretty nice.
Started by cutting plywood I had laying around, and building the box.
After building the box, I decided I would go ahead and drill the 1" holes for the taps.
Then needed to make a trip to home depot to grab the 1" foam insulation boards. Cut those up, installed, and taped all of the corners with waterproof tape.
Heres where I decided to use it in the wedding, so I sanded it down - made it look much better. Took forever to do with my palm sander, easily the worst part of making this thing.
Now, heres where I made my first real mistake, I tried to stain it with Redwood stain, and it came out VERY red.
In retrospect I wish I had just used brown stain. Anyway, I covered the red stain with brown stain to fade the red some, and that worked a little bit, and decided this would just have to be good enough.
I tried pouring some water in this thing, and it leaked pretty bad around the waterproof taped corners. So, had the bright idea that I had some flex seal laying around, and thought I would just spray the corners!
Terrible idea! Turns out that after a few minutes, the flex seal eats through the foam board. Oh well, decided to make the best of it and line with trash bags. I put 3 layers in there, so it likely wont leak just loading and unloading kegs. We'll see, I can always add more later.
Then, decided to spray paint chalkboard paint so I could label whats on tap.
Installed the taps....
And that's it! Probably cost me around $100, most of that going toward buying the taps and the shank kits, as well as the foam board. Hey, if nothing else this thing holds ice and will fit the kegs and the CO2. Eventually i'd like to install handles - ill get to that one day.
Started by cutting plywood I had laying around, and building the box.
After building the box, I decided I would go ahead and drill the 1" holes for the taps.
Then needed to make a trip to home depot to grab the 1" foam insulation boards. Cut those up, installed, and taped all of the corners with waterproof tape.
Heres where I decided to use it in the wedding, so I sanded it down - made it look much better. Took forever to do with my palm sander, easily the worst part of making this thing.
Now, heres where I made my first real mistake, I tried to stain it with Redwood stain, and it came out VERY red.
In retrospect I wish I had just used brown stain. Anyway, I covered the red stain with brown stain to fade the red some, and that worked a little bit, and decided this would just have to be good enough.
I tried pouring some water in this thing, and it leaked pretty bad around the waterproof taped corners. So, had the bright idea that I had some flex seal laying around, and thought I would just spray the corners!
Terrible idea! Turns out that after a few minutes, the flex seal eats through the foam board. Oh well, decided to make the best of it and line with trash bags. I put 3 layers in there, so it likely wont leak just loading and unloading kegs. We'll see, I can always add more later.
Then, decided to spray paint chalkboard paint so I could label whats on tap.
Installed the taps....
And that's it! Probably cost me around $100, most of that going toward buying the taps and the shank kits, as well as the foam board. Hey, if nothing else this thing holds ice and will fit the kegs and the CO2. Eventually i'd like to install handles - ill get to that one day.
