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cjet79  3mo ago (text post)   2842 thread views

Maker's Monday

Trying out a new weekly thread idea.

This would be a thread for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers. We can coordinate weekly standup type meetings if their is interest.

@ArjinFerman, @Turniper, and myself all had some initial interest.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

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That is nice.

Here is are some projects that I am pursuing (lazily):

DIY mini clinebell for big blocks of clear ice.

Right now I am making my clear ice with 1/1 GN 20 liter polypropylene container whose top and top 1/3rd of the sides are insulated with XPS and small aquarium pump to circulate the water. The yield is somewhat low - 15kg for 72 hours, so I am aiming bigger.

So far my design is to repurpose some cheapo second hand horizontal freezer, make sure the bottom is filled with brine that will be kept at around -6, and be able to hold couple of those containers. My goal is to be able to make around 6kg. The bonus of clear ice is that it makes the water almost distilled - when clear ice is melted it contents of impurities is around 7ppm. So it is a good starting point for any project which depends on quite clean water.

Some form of DIY dough sheeter

I am into croissants lately - it helps tremendously. The prosumer ones that are available cost around 5-700 euro which is quite steep. The aliexpress ones are around there with delivery and taxes.

**DIY sharpening guide for whole stones **

https://youtube.com/watch?v=usJ00Ude9Rg

so a clone of this.

https://kochmalscharf.freeforums.net/thread/970/bauanleitung-bogdanclone those are some good ideas. Tried to make one of the builds but the clamp needs quite more work.

** Homemade seltzer and sodas **

The carbonation kit is arriving tomorrow. There is noting sadder than looking the how the "skillful" bartender hands remove any trace of bubbles in your spritz. So the plan is to prebatch couple of bottles of campari and aperol spritzes and properly carbonate them. And keep them that way.

Uh, why do you need six kilos of clear ice at a time?

Sorry. I meant to write 60. Well because it takes forever to make and in the summer I am consuming prodigious amounts. And if I have to make it - why not make it clear. It looks awesome.

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