Remove the handles latches hinges wheels if your cooler has any and the covering of the cooler.
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Measure the slats to make the legs for the cooler.
Draw a mark and make the cut.
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The foam insulation will keep it cold for days.
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Making the shelf and lid.
Place a coupling between the plastic cooler and the wooden cooler and screw the faucet into the coupling.
The next step is to build a little shelf for the top of the cooler frame.
You can make it as snug as you d like.
I left about a half inch of play on each side to make it easy to remove the cooler if needed.
Cut your strips from step 2 the total height of the cooler plus 4 inches to account for the internal supports and top lid distance your boards to the appropriate length and glue brad nail screw the panel together.
It will be nice and snug.
We re basically undressing it so we may give it a new rustic armor.
A bottle opener is attached.
Assemble the frame for the cooler out of 2 4 boards.
Keep the cooler in the rustic frame and place the frame on a flat surface right side up.
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Place a piece of pvc piping into the hole of the plastic cooler and then into the coupling.
Attach hinges to the back of the lid.
Connect each 2 4 with 2 1 2 inch screws.
Create the legs for the diy cooler box.
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When you re done you ll have the rustic cooler frame.
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