This thread is awesome, spent two nites reading through the whole damn thing looking for ideas, skimmed over some bits and looking at pix mostly but it took two nites. Some of you guys have put together such drool factor stuff, makes me want to delete my post back in the first few pages.
Be good to have another thread like this but everyone only posts once with some pictures and a brief discriptions, no banter or questions allowed. Be a good thread to drool over.
Might get this thread pinned to the top aswell since any thread with 50 pages should deserve it.
Anyway just got my new kegerator operational, ebay 300l new world 300 for $150, now its proberly 20-25 years old and who knows if it is really even worth that but it is 300l and supposedly in exellent working order so it was worth every cent too me. Fits 7 19L kegs even without a collar. Thats if you have shorter rheem/firestone whatever they are ones on the hump.
I put a collar on it for 50 bucks so i could mount all manner of things, thats $50 from home hardware so a hardware store thats not actually a rip off I'am sure could be done cheaper. My carpentary skills are second to only a beaver in that all I'am good at is piling a few bits of wood together. Lesson learnt for others with equally bad carpentary skills and no real tools is if i had my time over i would get the hardware store to cut the wood for the collar for you, as having few beers and getting out the handsaw doesn't do the best of job for a real nice flush fitting angle(but it will do the job.)
I am going five taps, ATM its only three, the old side bangers and a brumby with the creamer action i have had for years. But come friday hopefully my new perlick and celli will be here to join them, a big thanks to the stimulus package for that (for everything really). Also got a single tap font that i will mount somewhere, proberbly make a ledge to the side so the top of the lid is free.
Its still got a ways to go before its perfect, can't afford a gas manifold really so its two hand fulls of tee pieces for the gas lines ATM, wood collar is not sealed yet.
This post is getting too long sorry especially for something like this which is no where near in the league of many others here so heres some pics. Gunna be going with the old american pick up truck grey metal primer look like one of James Hetfields guitars.
Its looking good next to the fermentator just need a bar to go around this end.
