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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]
After a lot of rummaging through the junkyard, he has a pile of things in front of him and he's muttering at them as he attempts to fashion something that will hopefully resemble a coffee maker.
The filtering part is easy enough. Some rubber tubing, with duct tape to cover the cracks, attached to the end of a funnel that he covered with a piece a speaker grill. He puts a filter on top of the grill and puts it aside and moves on to something to catch the coffee in. He tossed aside a few small glass jars with too many cracks in them before settling on an old insulated thermos, minus the insulation. Setting the funnel on top of the remains of a pole lamp, he set the end of the rubber tubing inside the thermos.
After some more digging in the piles of the junk he finds a mangled metal watering can with the spout broken off halfway. It has a handle and is therefore perfect for heating the water in. How to provide the heat was another problem entirely. Finally he came across a very old stereo amplifier that after some soldering and rewiring and more than few muffled "frell!"s generated a lot of heat once turned on. It probably wouldn't be able to power a stereo anymore, and he didn't even know that that was what it was for, but it got very warm once he managed to get it functioning.
Setting his watering can full of water on top of the amplifier, which he was desperately hoping would not start smoking again, he waited for the water to boil. Eventually he decided that it was as close to boiling as it was going to get and poured the water into the funnel and let it drip into the thermos. There may have been a few bits of decaying rubber floating in the coffee, but it was at least vaguely coffee-like. Or so he hoped.
Re: Assignment: [1/9]