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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.
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Then she remembers how they used to heat up chili when she was living on the streets of Buenos Aires and sets off.
She comes back with a stack of old newspapers, stuffing from an old couch, a half-broken kitchen cabinet, a metal hubcap, a pasta strainer (also metal), a cracked fishbowl, an empty can of beans, a bungee chord, a small length of yellow plastic twine, an ornamental glass lamp cover, an inflatable hemorrhoids pillow, a lot of crumpled tin foil, and a short length of 1" diameter pvc piping. She grabs a tube of superglue and sets to work.
First she glues the cracks in the fishbowl to seal them. Then she breaks apart the kitchen cabinet into four long pieces and a pile of splinters and shorter pieces. She takes three of the long pieces, the superglue, and the bungee chord and sets up a tripod on top of the hubcap. She puts the fishbowl in the strainer and hangs the strainer from the top of the tripod, so the bottom is several inches from the hubcap. She punches a hole in the bottom of the can of beans, rests the lamp cover on the inflated pillow, the can on top of the lamp cover, and balances one end of the pvc pipe on the edge of the can of beans. She uses the fourth long piece of the kitchen cabinet to prop the other end of the pipe next to the lip of the fishbowl, and shapes the tin foil into a funnel. She quickly tests this by using the handle of the strainer to tip the fishbowl into position; it should pour easily into the pipe, then filter through the can into the lamp cover.
Satisfied with this construction, she puts a filter and some coffee beans into the can of beans, puts the newspaper and couch stuffing down for kindling, and arranges the splinters and bits from the cabinet on top of the hubcap, pulls out a lighter, and starts a fire.
She sits back and waits for the water to boil.
Hell, she could do with a cup of coffee, anyway.
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"Looks good Nadia. Let me know if it's suitable to drink," Mac says with a grin.
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