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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:59 pm 
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I thought you guys may get a kick out of this...
Some of you will remember my Car-BQ from a while back...
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Well Ive decided to take a step up and make a bar out of my balcony set up and call it the mini bar.
It started around 6 months ago and looked like this...
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Since then Ive aded a few beer taps pumping out home brew but I thought I might go that one step further and give it a car theme that the title deserves.
First things first was to replace the bar top...
Heres what I started with:
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After a bit of cutting, sanding...

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Im replacing my beer tower with a car muffler, I know it isnt strictly a mini muffler, but I need something with a bit of show and also big enough to hold my taps:
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As for the tower itself I decided to go with two exhausts and use one simply as a donor for a cover panel
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The taps will come out of the panel in the pic above, I just need to find a tool capable of drilling a 24cm hole in stainless...
Ill post more pics up tomorrow once the tower is mounted and beer is pouring. Ill also include a few pics of the rest of the setup..
including what else im adding to go with the car theme....

Does anyone have an automotive outside temperature gauge btw?

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Cant you get a 24cm holesaw?

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You can but the two I've tried just seem to go blunt. I've got an adjustable hole cutter which looks like it will do the job.

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What do you need a nearly 10" hole for :?: :wink:

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seifer is the hole you need to cut in S/Steel if so I could have someone who can help you.(I think Your In Sydney) which reminds me, I have a job for him also.

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i reckon there's probably a few more than just seifer and i who are homebrewers and on the AHB forum as well...

i also keep chooks and know another ausminier who's on a poultry forum too :P

funny the tangled web lives we lead!


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A few shots of the finished product..

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Pop by for a cold one.

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Noice 8)

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Maaaate, that bar hauls ass!! :P

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woodwormm wrote:
i also keep chooks and know another ausminier who's on a poultry forum


Unless he lives in Gulgong, I know another one too!

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1310/71 wrote:
woodwormm wrote:
i also keep chooks and know another ausminier who's on a poultry forum


Unless he lives in Gulgong, I know another one too!


So who knows who then ????


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