That the left lane is the fast lane in traffic. Nope. It’s for the people who want to go fast, but are nuts to butts in the mountain curves, so it ends up as a constant stop and go wave. I’ll chug along in the 80% less busy right lane and sneak in when the “fast” drivers hit the brakes in the next curve so I can pass the actual slow cars.

Managed to get it done with a quick 220grit sanding between. Don’t mistake me for someone who knows what they’re doing.

Put together the upper cabinets for the closet after drilling shelf pin holes and sanding. Hoping to get 2 coats of primer on today with the fancy new hvlp sprayer if I can find the time while it’s light out.

Interesting. I’m on version 1.1.2 from F-droid, last updated 10 months ago.

You’re welcome! It’s a fun project and journey. Feel free to message if you have questions.

I replied to a different comment with the list!

The list is going to be mostly USA specific (I’ll come back with links), but many of the fittings are from Kegland (Australia), so we get a blend of “freedom” units and metric

We’ll start with level 1:

Tools: Depending on what exactly your goals are, you’ll need

• a tubing cutter
• a faucet wrench
• a crescent wrench (for attaching the regulator nut. 1^1/8in nuts on the regulators in my possession)
• a cheap water pressure gauge (you can check on your hose bib outside).

I’ll be specifying push-in fittings because they’re so much nicer to use.

Kegerator: obviously not a hard requirement. You can build a “keezer” out of a chest freezer, or bore a hole in your fridge for the faucet, or even use a picnic tap on a keg in the fridge (but you’ll also have to get your gas line in the fridge which means also putting the tank in there, or boring a hole for the line anyway)

CO2 tank: These come in 5, 10, and 20lb sizes commonly available at welding shops, and are almost universally swapped out instead of refilled (so don’t get attached). Check your prices for a new tank on the internet before you go to the welding shop to buy one. They will likely overcharge you for the first tank (by a hundred dollars), but they’ll like it if you bring them a shiny new one and might give you a discount. My 10lb tank lasts us about 6 months and I have a backup 5lb tank.

CO2 regulator: If you’re planning on beer taps too, go for a dual regulator right away and save yourself the hassle (serving beer is low pressure vs high pressure for water). Try to find one with a threaded output (“flare”) instead of a barbed output (or bonus points for having a push-in fitting already).

Keg: I use 2.5 or 5 gallon ball-lock cornelius (corny/soda) kegs

Gas and beer/water tubing: I use evabarrier only. All the fittings will be 8mm push-in (typically “duotight”) so get a length of 8mm x 4mm for liquid, and 8mm x 5mm for gas. These are the conventions for beer, and I just followed them for water.

Fittings:

• 1x of the 1/4" x 8mm push-in fittings for the CO2 regulator
• 1x Gas ball lock (typically gray), 1x Liquid Ball lock (typically black). I’d go for a “flow control” liquid ball-lock fitting. They are just enough different to be incompatible, so make sure to get 1 of each.
• 1x 8mm x 6.5mm push-in reducer (for the tap faucet shank)
• 1 6.5mm (3/16") compatible faucet shank
• 1 beer faucet
• 1 novelty tap handle
• I always recommend a check valve on the CO2 line, but it isn’t a hard requirement (until we plumb the water line in level 2).
• Optional: keg lid with diffusion stone (or buy the stone and attach it to your gas post to save a little, but you’ll need matching hose and clamps.

Level 2: This assumes you have completed level 1 Additional tools: none!

I’m going to assume you have a standard angle stop (like your toilet) for your water line. And I’m going to assume your plumber was nice enough to attach a 3/8" (9.5mm) push-in fitting.

Tubing:

• 9.5mm evabarrier to connect to the output that we’ll step down to our “standard” beer dispensing 8mm. I have about 4 inches of it before reducing

Fittings:

• 1x 9.5mm to 8mm push-in reducer
• 2x 8mm check valves for your gas and water lines (don’t be backing up the system on either side!)
• 1x [liquid ball lock ](Liquid Ball lock)
• 1x inline push-in regulator if you don’t know your water pressure and/or need to reduce it
• 1x continuous carbonator keg lid (you can move your diffusion stone to this cap)

You can skip the soda stream and use a cheap carbonator cap on standard plastic bottles and a ball lock connector on your gas line if you’re willing to shake the bottle manually.

I’ve taken this setup a couple levels up over the last 5 years.

First level: kegerator and switch out the bottle for a keg, bonus points for using a diffusion stone in the keg to speed the absorption of CO2.

Second level: plumb the water line and use a continuous carbonator lid on the keg. Your gas pressure will need to be 10-15 psi (.7-1 bar) lower than the water pressure. Even a small 2.5gal (9.5L) keg makes for nearly infinite cold fizzy water at reasonable consumption rates.

Happy to make a parts list if anyone is interested.

Backstory: my mom wanted a very specific clock from a furniture store.

She passed from esophageal cancer 6 weeks later and 6 years ago next week.

I was gonna suggest Jones soda, but they seem to be owned by a chain of increasingly weird weed and crypto parent companies now.

Enshitification has come for them too:

https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/jersey-mikes-to-partner-with-blackstone-to-accelerate-leading-franchisors-continued-growth/

Enjoy it while you can.

Hey, me too!

I envy your lack of this particular childhood trauma.

No kidding.

I remember dad making me read some book proving the end times were here because Saddam was Nebuchadnezzar reborn (the proof was their silhouettes looking similar). So much “whore of Babylon” stuff.

He recently sent me a YouTube video of a guy talking about the valley of Jehoshaphat and Trump heralding the end times.

It never ends.

When you start proselytizing your feelings about it including through seemingly bad faith posts on the Internet that beg the question.

Was (not was) - Walk the dinosaur featured on the live action Flintstones movie.

Good ol’ hanlon’s razor.

The power team. Apparently vast amounts of sweat, tearing phone books in half, bending steel rods and blowing up hot water bottles is godly and there were several alter calls.

Then I had to see them at Jr. High the next day to preach about how bad drugs are.

Here’s an article about a visit.

It’s certainly a rarity (and a crying shame!). The closest things we see regularly are chicken nuggets and battered/breaded fried fish, but I’ve never seen those premade at a butcher shop either, just the freezer section from the giant companies at the grocery store.

But this thread did make me recall https://shorelunch.com/ which is a DIY crumb. Shake-n-bake is the pervasive product.

Panko is also a popular option for the crumb.