well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews well today you've seen the first cut and this isn't
rate here using my plasma cutter and I'll have to make another cut right here and what I'm doing it
today is building something that I've never done before but to me it's logic and using a little
bit of reasoning and experimenting on making an ice block it's not so easy to make an ice block
yeah you can just throw something in the freezer and make an ice block but you know what I've been
using camping coolers well for about 50 years I've been making ice blocks while about half that time
and there's one thing I've noticed here's one of these blue gel ideas and if you take a look
at that you could see how this is all wowed out like this well as ice freezes it expands roughly
I know guess 10% so what I've been doing for many many many years we've been following the channel
I showed everybody how I make ice blocks I've got a freezer outside here a small little deep
freezer I make my own ice blocks and what happens squishes out sideways pushes the bottom in does
all kinds of distortions to these now the only one I will use is the Rubbermaid this is like over ten
years old I'm still using it and you know what the things indestructible makes great ice blocks but I
want to make one out of Steel it's going to be ten inches by 10 inches by 10 inches high so and I'm
gonna have a future camping cooler I'm going to show the reason why I'm making this specifically
for that and we're going to continue now and we're going to make this and the whole idea is
so that there will be no more distortions I'm using 16 gauge steel and I don't believe that
it will buckle the sides push the bottom out this kind of thing and I think that it's work
now what I'm planning on doing is putting enough water inside so it comes up to a roughly ten ten
and a half inches high so I figure if I put in say nine inches of water well it'll probably expand up
because 16 gauge steel all the way around I don't think it's going to push it out to you but I'm
gonna show you a nice block when I'm finished when I got this all done and we'll see how it fares but
let's get to it right now and I'm going to finish cutting up I got a big slab of steel there I'm
gonna finish plasma cutting all the pieces up and then I'll show you how it all goes together
and welds well for use that are interested I'll show you the setup here yeah you can see where
I'm going to put the weld up there and on this side put the weld up there and I got my square
in there the two magnets it's all you just the two magnets and you know you have to square everything
up and I made sure that it's exactly ten inches from here to here now these plates will move
back and forth but I'll put a clamp on here and here pull them in together so it's right on the
10 inch mark so that's what we got there so far and that plate here is gonna go on top so let's
start talking that together and let's see how we do okay you ready let's put some tacks on this
okay I've done the other side we turn it over now and then we'll attack on the top well let's
just take a look and see this is the top this has already been welded on and I know this tape
measures upside down for you but there's the 10 inches there and you know what it didn't buckle
the sides or nothing I just talked it lightly so we're going to fire that on right there okay let's
get to it and I like to just talk the front in the back first so that doesn't move on you
okay I'll weld up the other side and then we'll take a look well this is what we've got so far
you can just see I've just got tax there all the way along and it's exactly ten by ten and I do
not have a piece for the bottom but I'm gonna go get that and this is the rate here just tacked
up and I am gonna wait until I put the bottom on before I attack the bottom on and then I'll weld
the whole thing rate up and of course I have a little bit extra on the outside here so of
course what I'm gonna do is just grind it right nice all the way along the edges there and that's
what it's going to be so far so I'll bring you back when I got the bottom and I'll start tacking
the bottom all the way around okay I'm back from the steel store as you can see this is the piece
I picked up right here difference between those guys when I seen this 14 gauge I thought oops
this is this is like almost 1/8 so I don't know what that is maybe 8 gauge for gauge I'm not too
sure but I put my steel ruler on it it's just a hair below 1/8 so on the bottom here yeah we're
gonna put some 14 gauge just gonna slip it on the bottom there and I don't think the bottom
hopefully will make any difference anyways so let's get start welding this up and I think 14
gauge is plenty cuz I looked at the other one and I thought man that's pretty thick for 16 gauge oh
wow these things happen Hey okay so let's get to it let's start welding okay I got your zoomed in
there pretty good now as you can see yeah I had to put a clamp on here and put a clamp on here
and of course you know you got to have everything all fastened up because if you don't what are you
going to have gaps it's harder to well so let's just put a couple of tacks in there okay so
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna tack it all the way around and then I'm just gonna lay a bead from one
end all the way to the other all the way around and I'll bring you back when it's all welded up
well she's all welded up I did my best at welding it all the way around and as you can see I've got
these flanges I got to take off here this outside edge I've got to cut this all around here and of
course I'm gonna use the plasma cutter and around here and she's pretty well done and if you look
inside there yeah just a square box and hopefully it doesn't leak and if it does I can just touch
it up no problem so let's go to this right here and just zip this right off and I'll zip this off
here to the plasma cutter and I'll show you how we easy that is to do well let's get to it right now
here
we got one more time here
it's all done and this here is just the pieces left over from using the plasma cutter well the
only other thing I did is I put a couple of books along here because you know you have to actually
carry this right and I'm gonna be able to put a rope on it and drop it right down in my deep
freezer okay so let's take a look at it here and it's just more or less just grounded off around
you know it's nothing fancy and of course there it is just a 10 by 10 and you know this is 12 inches
high here I'm gonna put the water to get a 10 and 1/2 inch block I'm guessing I'm gonna put maybe
nine and a half inches of water in so I'm gonna put the liner in and I'm gonna see if I put nine
and a half inches of water what will I end up with a frozen block so we'll come back when this block
is all frozen and we'll take a look and we'll see okay we're back as you can see she's all painted
up and there's the ice block there and here's just a little piece of plastic tubing I used as
a measuring stick and I put in nine and a half inches and it came to ten so expanded a half an
inch over that surface so the block is ten by ten and so what do you guys think now that took two
days to freeze and I think it looks just terrific well what do you think it was easy all you do is
you just put the water in there you take it open your driveway and you just get your hose and just
hose off the outside of it so it breaks the seal on the other side so I used to do that with the
plastic totes as well and makes a beautiful block okay so in the future I'm gonna show you exactly
what that's for I'll explain the whole reason behind all of this and look forward to that but
this was an easy project and for me I can make the ice blocks in the future all different sizes
and you're gonna see how this all goes together in the future and you know I wonder how many of you
have ever decided to make one of these ice block makers I don't think too many and I don't know
how many are going to try it by themselves but for me ice blocks seem to be the best for me in
my experience of so many years of using camping coolers and this one here is made for a perfect
camping cooler you're going to see in the future okay these guys take care come back again if you
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