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Hi

I'm building a tiny door and trying to sucker a friend into doing some custom metal work for my kegerator.

reply to Jon
Cleaning, working on a website, going to a friend's birthday party in the city.
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reply to Dennis
what kind of custom metal work?

reply to Jon
Back at ya!

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reply to Jon
I got a really cool tap handle, but it doesn't fit because it hits the freezer door. So i'm going to basically try to build a box out of metal to extent the faucet out 3/4". Has to be big enough for the drip tray I added also.

Hoping to do metal but I can do it in wood if need be. Just don't want to mess with staining and sealing if I can help it.


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reply to Jon
Why not just use a spacer of some sort? You could get a piece of chrome closet or shower rod or maybe even a piece of copper pipe.
You could rip a 1X2 to bump out the drip tray.

I think this'll look better....yeah I can rip/cut anything I want wood wise. God knows I have the scrap but i just would rather have a single metal box.

Honestly I think it'll look pretty bad ass when it's done...if it's metal that is.
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reply to Jon
Work... at least february I get weekends off. At least today I got off work at 930 so essentially I have the whole day open. Probably doing some cleaning and then a SOFE tonight.

Dennis what is in your keggerator? Got some home brewed Chocolate Oatmeal stout and a Hoppy Red on tap but they are about to kick it.
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WTF is a bomber?
Right now I have a 1/6 of Two Brother's bitter end. Tried to get a 6th of GI 312 but they were out of stock. And also tried to ge a barrel of Talk to the left hand milk stout. That's good shit, but no 6ths. DAMN IT! I need a bigger frige so I can get halfs!

I know what a bomber used to be - and it wasn't beer! Back in the beatnik days of the 50s a bomber was, well - you know.
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reply to Jon
Bomber - 22oz bottle of beer.

Jon are you talking to Binny's at all?

That's now - the beatniks are gone!
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reply to Dennis
No I haven't been or talked to Binny's. Maybe I should.

reply to jsinaiko

Well, the beats were the late 40s through the early 60s - and they were less lovable. Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, et al.

Today a bomber would be a spliff. As in "hey daddyo, pass that bomber over here!"
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Oh no. My parents weren't beats then, they were hippies. My dad was president of Prairie state vans back when van clubs were popular. My dad was a pot smoker. He even made a really cool bong out of a piece of bamboo. It was about 36" tall. I remember going with them to get it. His army buddy fell in the canal. My dad was a Helicopter mechanic in the army.

they went to see Led Zepplin in 72 I think and Alice Cooper the same year.
They were young. She was 16 when my brother was born (67) and 18 for me.

Yeah - they would be about my age - 57. I wasn't a hilly but we all had those tendencies in those days.

However, the term "bomber" in the context I was using it in is from the 40s and 50s. We didn't use that term - old beatniks said it in books.

It just sounded funny when Dennis said "What we do right now is split a bomber, then a bottle...."
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Okay but you still haven't said, What was a bomber 40s and 50s?