🙌🏽Sublime Sunday🙌🏽 An excuse to post your random, creative or crazy ideas by - @c0ff33a ☕️

Welcome to #SublimeSunday , a tag presenting you with the unique opportunity to post something a bit different, wacky, crazy or just whatever takes your fancy and instigated by me @c0ff33a ☕️

First up though is a #beautifulsunday (hosted by @ace108) photo with a #funkyedit (hosted by @krazypoet) with Saturation to the Max.

A throw back to Blackpool on the West coast of the UK, when they had a display of old war planes including this Spitfire - in fact this ties in nicely because in the UK we normally have a Bank Holiday on the first Monday of May - so it would be tomorrow (May the Fourth be With You) but this year it has moved to Friday 8th of May in celebration of VE Day - Victory in Europe and the 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II when Germany signed a document surrendering the war.

And I have spent all my weekend painting - because obviously that is the thing to do in life isn't it? Eat sleep work repeat. I removed an old and defunct radiator from next to the new coffee roaster, wall mounted a Carbon Monoxide dector because of course the roaster is heated by a gas burner, replaced the light switch to the right because the old one had been smashed around the edges and covered with duct tape - it was like that since we moved in thirteen years ago only just go around to fixing it!

This is the best before photo I have, you can see the radiator I removed and the brown paint I have now covered with white Masonry paint. I'm actually planning on having a coloured lower section like with that nasty brown, only in matching green to the roaster - I think that will look pretty cool.

But of course in between all the painting I have to play with my new toy, the drum gate and also the gate at the top that let's the green beans into the drum are operated by compressed air valves - so pressing a button on the touch screen of the roaster opens or closes them with a satisfying clunk and hit. I had to purchase an Air compressor and hook it up to make this part work - extra expense but much easier then manually operating such a big heavy gate.

Talking of the Air Compressor there it is, I managed to tuck it in behind the chaff collector - I moved it forward a bit so I could paint the wall behind. I fitted a double socket next to the three phase power outlet the electrician fitted to power the air compressor and a PC to run roast profiling software on. But I expected the air compressor to have a long power lead - sadly not it's barely a foot and a half so I now need to run a second spur off that double socket and fit a single socket near it. I have plenty of twin and earth left, and some left over cable casing so that will be no problem.

Double socket, I have cable casing to cover the twin and earth to the three phase switch - then the cable is just tied to the three phase cable the electrician ran. There was a socket I could run from 6m away, and now I will run a feed down and across the window ledge to the air compressor. Copper pipe is the gas feed newly installed.

Close up of the big 30kg roaster, the controls in the background are on a swing arm.

Most controls are from the touch screen, you can manually control the roast and also use the Profile Roasting to set different roast curves for different coffee origins making it easier to consistently roast the same coffee every time you roast.

This wall next to the chaff collector was a pain to paint - because the chaff collector was in the way! It would have been easier if I had it done before the roaster had arrived - which I would have done if Coronavirus didn't cause all kinds of stupid happen and I ended up spending every waking day including weekends packing and shipping orders.

I got it done, but it was way harder and slower then it needed to be.

So here is a new idea I had, back up this post you would have seen the frame for the hoist that lifts goods from below to upstairs and back. It was an open frame of wooden beams and then also some metal frame work. I decided to tidy it up by boarding it up - and handily I had these boards hanging around from when we moved in - the previous occupiers had used them to make workstations upstairs for their computer workers - hence the small square holes I think that was so they could look through at their co workers lol. Anyway they just happened to be the perfect size to fit in place - I can't decide if I will cover up the holes or not - in a way they feel quite artistic is a post modern sort of way.

Believe it or not, this bit looks better then it did before! Might take a few coats of paint to really cover it - I left this radiator in place because really it isn't hurting anything and they are a pain to remove and pretty heavy - plus once you drain the water out they leak a horrible black sludge for ages. And then I will have to load them in the van and take them to the scrap metal merchant - and this area will just be for pallet storage so that radiator can stay. I also have the ceiling to do yet - this is a long term project.

Still a lot of work to go, but already this corner of the warehouse that for years stored pallets of disposable cups is starting to look ready for coffee roasting, clean and tidy plus of course this machine is not just for my own coffee roasting needs - it's a demonstration model for people that are looking to invest in an industrial size coffee roaster - so this will be a demonstration area as well as for production.

Anyway I'm done for today, a #funkyedits to finish from Haven holiday park where we stayed in the static holiday homes.