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fandomhigh2006-01-09 08:40 am
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Shop Class: [1/9]
As the students enter into the Danger Room Shop, they'll see that it has been transformed into a scrapyard, filled with various mechanical machines, scrap metal etc.
A section of the Junkyard has been put aside for the typical tools you would find in a metal/wood shop.
"Morning Kids. Before we do anything else, we will go over The Rules of the Danger Shop."
After the rules have been gone over, Mac then does Roll Call to make sure everyone is there. Then Mac walks everyone through the safety percautions and techniques to use any of the shop tools.
When that is complete, Mac rolls out a cart that has ground coffee and various types of coffee filters.
Today we are going to build a coffee machine.
To do this you must:
1. Fashion a container and device to boil water
2. Fashion a device to filter water through the coffee grounds
3. Fashion a device to receive the coffee
Notes: There are no Coffee Brewers or Percolators in the Junk Yard. I know. I fixed them. If you find a device that will heat the coffee (hotplate etc), chances are it is broken and you must take the time to fix it. Shop equipment cannot be used as functioning part of the coffee maker. Only to build it.
A section of the Junkyard has been put aside for the typical tools you would find in a metal/wood shop.
"Morning Kids. Before we do anything else, we will go over The Rules of the Danger Shop."
After the rules have been gone over, Mac then does Roll Call to make sure everyone is there. Then Mac walks everyone through the safety percautions and techniques to use any of the shop tools.
When that is complete, Mac rolls out a cart that has ground coffee and various types of coffee filters.
Today we are going to build a coffee machine.
To do this you must:
1. Fashion a container and device to boil water
2. Fashion a device to filter water through the coffee grounds
3. Fashion a device to receive the coffee
Notes: There are no Coffee Brewers or Percolators in the Junk Yard. I know. I fixed them. If you find a device that will heat the coffee (hotplate etc), chances are it is broken and you must take the time to fix it. Shop equipment cannot be used as functioning part of the coffee maker. Only to build it.
Re: Assignment: [1/9]
Step One:Using a sodering iron and wire cutters she snips the wires and attaches some battery clamps onto a metal plate she pulled out of an old microwave. Sodering the wires to the claps she attaches the other end of the wires to the nine volt batteries in order for the batteries to run through the wires and heat the metal plate. Setting her metal plate/heating element to the side Fred goes back to the junkpile to search for a container to boil water in. Finding a broken tea kettle Fred welded the top of it off to make a bowl of sorts to hold the water to boil it on the metal plate.
Step Two: Digging through the pile again Fred finds a fine mesh screen, possibly used in an old screen door or window. "Ok so I can use this to filter the water through and make the coffee, Just pour the hot water over the coffee beans, use the screen as a sort of sifter." Very happy with such a wonderful find, Fred uses the wire cutters to layer the screen three layers thick in opposing directions to get the most out of the filter. The beauty of the mesh Fred had found is it was very flexible and did not require sodering or welding to adjust it to fit Step Three.
Step Three: With some plastic tubing and a funnel, Fred fashioned the mesh into a narrow point to insert into the funnel, run down the tube and into a chipped coffee mug.
Grinning Fred was a bit nervous to drink the coffee but still she thought her first coffee pot was a success.
Re: Assignment: [1/9]
Re: Assignment: [1/9]