# \[Challenge\] Beer can holder for workshop
**URL:** https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381
**Category:** Projects
**Created:** [September 19, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381 "2015-09-19T19:11:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ebr](https://community.inventables.com/u/Ebr)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/1 "2015-09-19T19:11:25Z")
This is not a project of mine, rather a Challenge to you out there while I clean up the mess in my workshop.
Just knocked over a can of beer and drowned my digital caliper. I was actually trying to clean this place up, not make even more mess… _facepalm_
Need a solution for beverage consumption in workshop. Something to hold beverage secure and with the ability to be moved out of the way in a safe manner.
What would be the X-carve way of solving such a luxury problem? 😄
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### Author:  [@Ebr](https://community.inventables.com/u/Ebr)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/3 "2015-09-19T19:24:03Z")
Too easy and does not involve cutting stuff… sorry 😉
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### Author:  [@Ebr](https://community.inventables.com/u/Ebr)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/5 "2015-09-19T19:36:18Z")
True. I stand corrected. 😄
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### Author:  [@RobertA\_Rieke](https://community.inventables.com/u/RobertA_Rieke)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/6 "2015-09-19T20:13:32Z")
Cupholder attached to cart/table/stand, complete with a round part on a string to set over the open can to keep sawdust out. 😄
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### Author:  [@BillArnold](https://community.inventables.com/u/BillArnold)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/7 "2015-09-19T20:17:03Z")
> [@Ebr](#):
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> Just knocked over a can of beer
That would be classified as alcohol abuse in some places! Shame on you!!!
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### Author:  [@Ebr](https://community.inventables.com/u/Ebr)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/8 "2015-09-19T20:25:18Z")
There was even a small dent in the can afterwards. Oh the horror!
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### Author:  [@DallasPowers](https://community.inventables.com/u/DallasPowers)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/10 "2015-09-19T21:21:09Z")
Two words…Beer Hat
I win 😛
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### Author:  [@TonyNo](https://community.inventables.com/u/TonyNo)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/11 "2015-09-19T21:28:45Z")
Time to retrofit a Weeble, or kids punching bag!
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### Author:  [@Earwigger](https://community.inventables.com/u/Earwigger)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/12 "2015-09-19T23:48:51Z")
First off - you need a YETI. You know how when you set your beer down and one thing leads to another… soon it tastes warm and back-washey. NOT with the YETI. Beer stays cold ALL DAY. It is a miracle. So, my recommendation would be to find a solution to hold the YETI which is holding your beer.
[http://www.amazon.com/Yeti-YRAMCOL-Coolers-Rambler-Colster/dp/B00SU9ACGA/ref=sr\_1\_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1442706333&sr=8-2&keywords=yeti](http://www.amazon.com/Yeti-YRAMCOL-Coolers-Rambler-Colster/dp/B00SU9ACGA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1442706333&sr=8-2&keywords=yeti)
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### Author:  [@HughMckibbin](https://community.inventables.com/u/HughMckibbin)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/13 "2015-09-20T03:41:26Z")
A clamping cup holder that you can move to various places that is sturdy as you are able to clamp it to various benches. 🙂
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### Author:  [@DavidWestley](https://community.inventables.com/u/DavidWestley)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/14 "2015-09-20T07:12:01Z")
I understand you can get these robotic devices to follow you around with an iPad on the top. Why not remove the top and replace it wth a small bar table.
Your beer could follow you around and when empty, it could be sent off on a mission to find some more…
> **[Google](https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ipad+robot&imgrc=s_8mHod376r8PM%3A)**
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### Author:  [@IanWatkins](https://community.inventables.com/u/IanWatkins)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/15 "2015-09-20T07:12:31Z")
Obvious solution? 3 axis self leveling gimbal as used to steady cameras on quadcopters/hand rigs.
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### Author:  [@HelgeDokken](https://community.inventables.com/u/HelgeDokken)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 9:08am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/16 "2015-09-20T09:08:13Z")
shame on you wasting beer that way 😉
What about making a bar in one corner of the shop,whit a waitress (wife ?) to serve you while your cutting away 😂
Well maby not… 😁
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### Author:  [@Ebr](https://community.inventables.com/u/Ebr)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/17 "2015-09-20T12:15:42Z")
I stand back in amazement! So many good ideas on how to solve this most critical issue. 😄
Eliminating the Wife-Factor is an added requirement I think… Workshop should be free of Spouses.
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### Author:  [@JohnSheak](https://community.inventables.com/u/JohnSheak)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/19 "2015-09-20T15:10:10Z")
You guys are an insult to Saint Norm Abram… remember to read, understand, and follow all safety precautions when using power tools… and I am sure drinking would be and unsafe activity… wait till the work is done… and as Stumpy says… “have a cold one, you earned it my friend” but only when it is safe to do so.
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### Author:  [@BillArnold](https://community.inventables.com/u/BillArnold)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/20 "2015-09-20T15:55:10Z")
> [@Ebr](#):
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> Workshop should be free of Spouses.
Except when she comes into my shop to sweep the floor for me! 😄
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### Author:  [@JkWestphal](https://community.inventables.com/u/JkWestphal)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/21 "2015-09-20T16:41:03Z")
> [@JohnSheak](#):
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> You guys are an insult to Saint Norm Abram… remember to read, understand, and follow all safety precautions when using power tools… and I am sure drinking would be and unsafe activity… wait till the work is done… and as Stumpy says… “have a cold one, you earned it my friend” but only when it is safe to do so.
Sooner or later, someone was gonna go there…
But I am inclined to agree.
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### Author:  [@RobertA\_Rieke](https://community.inventables.com/u/RobertA_Rieke)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/22 "2015-09-20T16:54:56Z")
I’ve been thinking of calling it Norm’s Law. Similar to Godwin’s Law, since eventually any woodworking related discussion will eventually draw out a safety reminder. 😄
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### Author:  [@BryanSheets](https://community.inventables.com/u/BryanSheets)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/24 "2015-09-20T17:41:09Z")
Well… It’s not. Power tool that I’m controlling… The computer is, sssssssooooooo as log as the computer stays sober were all good. Righ?
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### Author:  [@JohnSheak](https://community.inventables.com/u/JohnSheak)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/challenge-beer-can-holder-for-workshop/13381/25 "2015-09-20T20:41:09Z")
I just know that any of the cam software has to ability to add an “No go Zone” for someone passed out on the work surface… 🙂
it would also be funny for someone to make a slick video…starting with a Norm safety brief,… showing all these complicate steps… and then going to “lets see the finished product…” cut to Rick Roll… then " What didn’t you not understand about be safe…no drinking in the shop… just make sure that it has a lot of parts from different materials… viral, inventables, safety, x-carve, all hail Norm video…
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