Shop Class: [1/9]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

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.

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Re: Assignment: [1/9]

[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

Ivanova considers the challenge. Luckily she had bought her own coffeemaker so was fully caffeinated for the class.

The heating element would be easy. A drifter Down Below had shown her how once. She located an empty paint can and made three holes in the top and bottom, on opposite sides of the can. A single piece of newspaper should be enough to make it hot enough to boil water. After much poking about, she found an old cheesegrater. After prying it apart, she layered the different sides on top of each other to make a servicable seive. She carefully duct taped them together for good measure. Some further scavenging turned up an empty jugs, of the extralarge type used for juice or bleach. After carefully rinsing it out, she cut it in half and duct taped her cheesegrater seive over it, so that the mouth of the jug would serve as a funnel. A cracked mug, newly patched with a bit of transfer china and some more duct tape, would catch the coffee. Now she just needed to find something to boil the water in. Another jug wouldn't work. It would probably melt before the water got hot enough. Mmmm, PCPs.

Oooh, shiny. Another paint can. Perfect. The whole system was propped up by bits of wood or metal rods so that the paint can full of water, atop the hobo stove, could at a certain point be pulled by a string through a track made of two more sticks into the jug and through the filter, finally arriving in the mug. It took a few cinderblocks to get the proper downhill affect, but it looked alright. She took a piece of newspaper, carefully poking it under her hobo stove, and scooped some coffee into her filter. In a surprisingly short amount of time, it was boiling cheerfully. She pulled the string and watched as the paint can slowly, slowly, slowly tipped, bumping along its track, sloshing water everywhere. The jug hissed a bit, and seemed to crumple a little at the top when the hot water hit it. The coffee, however, seemed to be okay.

She still wouldn't want to drink it.

Re: Assignment: [1/9]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Thank you Ivanova. Nicely done."