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Inspired by a comment in the Will Ferrell movie Talladega Nights,
VIDEO of the Six Cheese Fountain in action on Step 9!
- Fountain Design
- Fountain Construction
- Cheese Pump Design
- Cheese Pump Manufacturing
- Heat Source Solution
- Cheese Choice and Prep
- Power for the Cheese Pumps
- Lights, Camera, CHEESE!
- Shopsmith Mark V as a Table Saw, a Horizontal Boring Machine and as a Drill Press
- Jet Mini-Lathe
- Kreg Pocket Hole Jig
- Shopsmith Bandsaw
- Shopsmith Over Arm Pin Router
- Hitachi Chop Saw
- Hafele Hole Cutter
- Bench Grinder
- Shop-Made Sheet Metal Break
- Miscellaneous Hand Tools
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Signing UpStep 1It All Starts With A Biscuit And A Design
Over bacon, egg and cheese biscuits everything becomes clear: There is no way we can make a single fountain that will hold and dispense six different cheeses without mixing them, so we decide on a design that incorporates six individual fountains arranged in a hexagon. This design will allow us to rearrange the fountain for future use as a single cheese, three cheese, or even to line them up along a wall for a Wall-O-Cheese!
The fountain will be made from 3/4" x 4" pine lumber (which is called "1 by 4") and simple butt-joints. This means no fancy joinery or complicated tools are needed for this step, though a pocket hole jig is used for a few of the joints. This is a specialized fixture that allows the user to drill an angled pilot hole for a special screw, which will add strength to what might otherwise be an unsupported butt joint. The pocket hole jig we are using is manufactured by the Kreg Tool Co.
We decided to use a 12" x 10" x 2.5" aluminum foil chaffing dish as our bottom cheese reservoirs, so the footprint of each fountain segment will have a 12" x 10" inside dimension. These are the aluminum pans that are used for lasagna, and we found them two for a dollar at Dollar Tree.
The 1/4" plywood bottom was almost an after thought, but we realized that we needed to protect the table from the heat source. These pieces were cut a hair under size so they wouldn't be seen, and were attached with a bead of glue and a few brads.
The last photo below shows how the back braces are pocket-screwed in place. Later we will attach the pumps to these braces.
For this step we used a Chopsaw to cut the boards to length, a Bandsaw to safely cut the long taper on the angled board, and a Kreg Pocket Hole jig for some of the joints.
Don't miss the VIDEO of the Six Cheese Fountain in action on Step 9!
The fountain will be made from 3/4" x 4" pine lumber (which is called "1 by 4") and simple butt-joints. This means no fancy joinery or complicated tools are needed for this step, though a pocket hole jig is used for a few of the joints. This is a specialized fixture that allows the user to drill an angled pilot hole for a special screw, which will add strength to what might otherwise be an unsupported butt joint. The pocket hole jig we are using is manufactured by the Kreg Tool Co.
We decided to use a 12" x 10" x 2.5" aluminum foil chaffing dish as our bottom cheese reservoirs, so the footprint of each fountain segment will have a 12" x 10" inside dimension. These are the aluminum pans that are used for lasagna, and we found them two for a dollar at Dollar Tree.
The 1/4" plywood bottom was almost an after thought, but we realized that we needed to protect the table from the heat source. These pieces were cut a hair under size so they wouldn't be seen, and were attached with a bead of glue and a few brads.
The last photo below shows how the back braces are pocket-screwed in place. Later we will attach the pumps to these braces.
For this step we used a Chopsaw to cut the boards to length, a Bandsaw to safely cut the long taper on the angled board, and a Kreg Pocket Hole jig for some of the joints.
Don't miss the VIDEO of the Six Cheese Fountain in action on Step 9!
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Now, if only you could create a device for dispensing bacon, kind of like ATM receipt dispensers....
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Chocolate-y bacon-y sauce
i feel the flow rate is a little ..emm un-satisfying
maybe a washing machine motor O.O ?
When it was done you should have let a woman make it look presentable (it was a wedding).
for me if it works its great..the looks are well.. secondary or just labeled steampunk
Some things ARE done because we can. Some things are done because they are fun or silly or constructive, or philanthropic, or educational; either way it's OK for adults to decide for themselves.
If it makes you feel better, some of the parts of the fountain have been resourced into a couple H2O-saving container gardens; but again, they're just producing more food! Oh, the circle of life...
This is obviously the wrong forum for this, I guess the cheese fountain was my last straw for hope for humanity.
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."
George Carlin
...any undeserved evil that you inflict on someone else among the people is one that you do to yourself. If you viify, you vilify yourself; if yo steal from him, you steal from yourself; if you kill him, you kill yourself. Only the law of retribution (jus talionis) can determine exactly the kind and degree of punishment.
It's also considered proper in most english language usage dictionaries.
And there is a difference between simply bitching, and expressing righteous indignation.
Now go forth and invent a new flavor for jello shooters. I'm gonna go shoot my potato gun and annoy my republican neighbor....
Long live Ron Popeil!