A little bit ambitious here of me, but has anyone ever built there own cooler ?
A mean like properly not just sticking a coil of copper wire into a cooler box full of ice not that there is anything wrong with this method but since building a kegerator and messing about by-passing the thermostat and adding a temp controller to the compressor and studying videos about how fridges work etc, I've suddenly decided I'm some kind of refrigeration expert and wondered just how hard would it be to build my own beer cooler.
I could get an old fridge or freezer, take out the compressor get some kind of water tank add new cooling lines around water tank, put in the coil of copper pipe that my beer goes through, attach a pump to the water tank for re circling the cold water around (as they do for the towers :) ) attach smaller condensing lines and a condensing fan.
sounds really easy when you say it fast. Apart from the obvious danger that I have no idea what I'm doing and can very easily kill myself can anyone see why I should forget this idea straight away or has anyone successfully done it??
(oh also forgot to add I would need to learn how to re gas it too, but I think you can buy a cheap air con gas kit to regas your car yourself.. I guess it's the same thing isn't it??)
I guess I should stick to the ice box and copper coil or buy a cooler and stay alive eh :)
A mean like properly not just sticking a coil of copper wire into a cooler box full of ice not that there is anything wrong with this method but since building a kegerator and messing about by-passing the thermostat and adding a temp controller to the compressor and studying videos about how fridges work etc, I've suddenly decided I'm some kind of refrigeration expert and wondered just how hard would it be to build my own beer cooler.
I could get an old fridge or freezer, take out the compressor get some kind of water tank add new cooling lines around water tank, put in the coil of copper pipe that my beer goes through, attach a pump to the water tank for re circling the cold water around (as they do for the towers :) ) attach smaller condensing lines and a condensing fan.
sounds really easy when you say it fast. Apart from the obvious danger that I have no idea what I'm doing and can very easily kill myself can anyone see why I should forget this idea straight away or has anyone successfully done it??
(oh also forgot to add I would need to learn how to re gas it too, but I think you can buy a cheap air con gas kit to regas your car yourself.. I guess it's the same thing isn't it??)
I guess I should stick to the ice box and copper coil or buy a cooler and stay alive eh :)
