Endless Liquid Refreshment

rabtech writes "I'm very lazy. As part of that continuing effort, I've come up with a guide for installing a soda fountain in the house. I've detailed how to get the equipment, hoses, and supplies, as well as how to install and calibrate the system. Now you won't ever need to move for lack of liquid refreshment! My next project: Food Replicator."

Comments

Even more impressive

[Drunken Coward]

Would be if you'd managed to rig a kegorator to dispense Guinness. If you feel like drinking a calorie-laden fizzy beverage, it might as well be one that tastes good.

Besides which, there is evidence that diet soda drinks are mildly carcinogenic and may slow down the metabolism enough to negate the fact that they are less caloric.

Re:Even more impressive

[Cryptnotic]

As a college student who drank Guinness through a plastic tube attached to a cheap ($20) plastic tap on keg (yes, directly from the tube without using a cup), I can say that no other equipment is necessary.

That having been said, now that I am no longer a college student, I absolutely prefer Guinness served in a glass. Actually, I think I would have preferred it in a glass back then, but all we had was that plastic tube.

Re:hmmm....

[localghost]

Teeth are overrated, and fat keeps you warm in the winter. I'll take the soda fountain, thank you.

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[puto]

Wow! How to install a soda fountain! The very height of tehcnology. Something I have always wanted to do. Wait a minute.

If the guy would have installed it and controlled it with a wireless NIC and had Big Gulp cups printed with the Penguin and a caffeine molecule

Whats next in the story department?

1. Watching Paint Dry - The do's and don'ts.
2. Color Coding Recycling bins.
3. Zen and the Art of the Compost heap.
4. Tae Boe Power Knitting.
5. Sheep dipping for fun and profit.

But seriously, admittingly I sit in front of computers probably far too much, this guy has no life. Diagramming his soda dispenser installation?

Hooray that he installed then had so much time on his hands to create a web page?

Now I have seen everything.

Puto

Coulda Spent It On...

[GamezCore.com]

...or with that same $500 you could've spent $495.00 on a decent web server, and then bought a case of your favorite soda.

You'll probably need

[Safety Cap]

an automated insulin injector, thanks to your newly-developed diabetes, too!

Feeling Incontinent?

[polv0]

And if going to the bathroom becomes too inconvenient, try some of these.

The question remains...

[moertle]

Does it run Linux?

Re:interesting

[product byproduct]

Can plastic survive soda corrosion?

If you build your plastic pipes out of 2-liter soda bottles, you should be ok.

Soda's ok

[quintessent]

Soda's alright, but I'm more of a water drinker. Do you think you could adapt this thing to dispense water on demand?

Re:Actually, it would be cooler to keep it simple

[DTC]

Hey now! Just because this guy built his own soda fountain, it doesn't give you the right to infer that he's a jerk!

Re:interesting

[Jucius Maximus]

"Can plastic survive soda corrosion?"

Uh, are you aware that Coca Cola is commonly shipped in *plastic* bottles? ;P

Re:One important thing to note...

[outsider007]

It is damn cool though, and the chicks dig it

no, it's not cool at all. and the chicks just didn't want to hurt your feelings.

Re:One important thing to note...

[iwillrefuse]

that's simply a lie. chick dig things they don't normally get, and although this seems odd for a slashdot statement, I'm pretty sure I got laid just because I had a soda machine. Either that, or my charm. And I'm pretty sure it was the previous. :)

Re:One important thing to note...

[outsider007]

where exactly do you have to go to find a chick who 'doesn't normally get' soda?