Tap a Watermelon! or How to Make a Watermelon Keg

Step 5 Connect the hardware

Wash all the hardware.

Screw your nipple into the coupling with one of the lock nuts inbetween. It's not nearly as nasty as it sounds.

Push the coupling through the melon.

Place a small piece of saran wrap over the coupling and cut an opening in the middle. The plastic wrap should help prevent leaks.

Screw on the tap with a lock nut between the tap and the coupling.

Wrap the excess saran wrap around the edge of the lock nut and trim it so it looks pretty.

Comments

[groovy]

Its all about the build ,so making ur own spout is what it is all about
I think it is great anyway you choose to build it ....so stick a cork in it (if you like).

[MzMaRii23]

"Screw your nipple into the coupling with one of the lock nuts inbetween. It's not nearly as nasty as it sounds." <---- Ahhahaha I LOVE IT!!!

[starfoxy]

Lol, i was thinking the same thing haha

[spenfisher12]

one of those pictures look like some one ate a pluming peice.

[PikesPeak]

Seek out a hobby store such as Michaels and ask for wood keg spouts, or better yet Google them, and maybe find one better than wood, then simply make your round hole in the melon and insert. Don't kill yourself builiding hardware when it is simpler to find one part as a whole unit, and use it.

http://www.winetaps.eu/Small+Medium+Sized+Taper+Wooden+Wine+Taps+Vinegar+Spigots+Faucet+Faucets+for+Wood+Barrel+Barrels+Cask+Casks+Wooden+Keg+Kegs+Use.html

[ModMischief]

I was originally looking at something like that in the hardward store but I couldn't find anything to connect to the back of it (inside the melon). Screwing together a couple of pieces easily found in the plumbing section is hardly "building hardware". I'm pretty sure building hardware is beyond my limited abilities.

[PikesPeak]

Sorry, I actually meant the building of the whole hardware, my grammatical error.

[PikesPeak]

Better yet try here. http://www.eckraus.com/Barrel_Spigots.html

[ModMischief]

If you really want to save yourself the trouble of putting it together, someone is selling watermelon taps here: http://www.watermelontap.com/