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Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:57 pm
by andrewtrsmith
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:04 pm
by akr71
For $25... buy now!
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:04 pm
by mr x
Nice price, if it works.
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:22 pm
by andrewtrsmith
Going to see if the guy will hold it till Saturday so I can get my wife's work van
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:23 pm
by Jmac00
do you plan on building a collar?
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:46 pm
by andrewtrsmith
I do, I was initially thinking of building a small collar and then putting a custom wood tower on top with 4 taps (plan overall not specifically for this freezer) but its a lot easier just to run the taps out of a 2x8 collar and I don't have to worry about rigging any fans or crap to keep the tower cool.
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:15 pm
by Jmac00
I ended up going with a 2x10 or 2x12 (can't remember) collar to clear the kegs over the hump. Alot of boards are not a "true" 10" or 12"....so if you go with a 2x8...measure it before you purchase cause it might not be a "true" 8

. I think the 2x10's were about 9-1/4 wide... And i rigged up a couple cheap fans to circulate things....doesn't cut in as much with the extra space from the collar. My advice....if you're going with a big collar...then you should be good( i wish i was home to measure mine, i can fit 7 with collar, can't remember the freezer measurements though, pics are in the kegerator thread)...but if you were going with a tower or coffin box....then you'd need a bigger freezer cause you wouldn't be able to fit the kegs on the compressor hump. Good luck!!!
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:13 pm
by andrewtrsmith
Ahh right, like a 2x4 isn't a 2x4. Thanks for the tip, and I have to say i'm probably going to steal your collar design

Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:40 pm
by JEH
definitely get it. black epoxy paint will make it look like new again
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:27 am
by andrewtrsmith
I was thinking black, but if i scuffed up the surface with some 320 or 400 grit couldn't i just use some generic rattle can paint? Also has anyone done the chalk board paint before? I was thinking that could be cool to put either on the front (highly visible but more likely to get rubbed off accidentally) or the top covered (not as visible but less likely to get rubbed off, and I could put a piece of plexi over it.
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:52 pm
by jason.loxton
I did my kegerator (the one I broke) with spray paint. I wanted a gloss look, and it was rather difficult in practice with large surface areas to get an even cover. It also took a lot of $$ worth of paint. I spoke a friend who painted a fridge using roll on paint (presumably house paint) for (I think) the Bus Stop Theatre, Claimed that it came up great. If anyone can back this up, it would potentially save you a lot of time and hassle.
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:50 pm
by andrewtrsmith
Lookin like I might take the cheep can of tremclad approach

Maybe i'll just get a 24"x24" piece of plywood and some trim and make a chalkboard in a frame above the keezer, probibly easier

Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:51 pm
by andrewtrsmith
Looks like I got screwed on Kijiji. Freezers been humming away for 8 hours and its still freakin 64 degrees inside. F**K. The guy said he had it plugged in for an hour before i got there and it was starting to feel cool so something must have happened on the drive home. I'm not so much pissed about the $25 but its the fact that now i have to deal with a broken freezer. What the hell do I do with it?
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:53 pm
by mr x
leave it in his driveway
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:05 pm
by Jmac00
I'd say unplug it for a couple of days then retry.......with my deep freezer(got it for free) i knew it worked cause i seen it working. Dragged it home and let it sit for a while without doing anything with it....then finally built my collar, threw some kegs in it, hooked up temp controller, plug er in and she made some awful and weird noises...but wouldn't kick in....spoke to someone else and they said that's normal as the way it circulates if it hasn't been used in a while(not sure if any truth but oh well). Anyways, she finally stopped circulating and weird noises, then finally kicked the compressor in.
if that doesn't work.....put it at the end of your driveway with a price tag of $25.....it'll probably be gone by morning..If you put FREE on it....it'll be there all week...LOL
Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:38 am
by LiverDance
This will help, and after they remove the CFC you can put it on the curb
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Re: Looking for your opinion
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:53 am
by andrewtrsmith
Thanks guys, I'll leave it until the weekend and if it doesn't work then I'll get the CFC's removed.
Thanks for all the info! The wife also said to chuck it in his driveway, but its kind of a buyer beware thing and the little voice in my head is too loud some times.