Kegbot Action!

So here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for. Well ok, it’s the moment *I’ve* been waiting for. You’ve been waiting for it *maybe*. But this project has finally arrived at a middle, where things start to get better fast. After a cold galvanizing primer, I finished everything inside the cold box in a Rustoleum hammered-silver. I find this stuff to be tough as nails, doesn’t chip or scratch and the texture is forgiving of rough surfaces.

I reinstalled the floor grate, sanded and cleaned all the plastic threshold side and top pieces and replaced all the rusty screws. The bottom threshold got bead-blasted in our last episode so it also got primer, painted and reinstalled with its stainless screws (after they spent some time getting to know the wire wheel.) I left the adjustable shelf brackets out, less to clean. (How would you ever have a keg AND a shelf in there?) The shelf itself had been used as another layer of floor grating, which seems like a pretty good idea to me. It also got bead-blasted and I finished it in black satin Rustoluem (my favorite spray paint of all time… wut?… you have one of those too right?). I figure it will take most of the abuse of the kegs scraping in and out so it’ll be easy to take out and repaint as needed. So there you go. I can almost start working on the fun part - ROBOT STUFF!

But first I need to check out the rust around the drain hole on the side… uh-oh. Dayum. It’s not all ponies and rainbows in there. Looks like that will be the next episode.