Keeping the Keg Cool in the Summer

[springtime]

I'm trying to plan for the summer when the weather gets hot :) and I will have to find a way of keeping certain keg beers / ciders cool.
Currently I'm storing my beers in the garage which is built onto the house with the utility room at the back.
This enables me to run 2 beer pipes through the wall to a makeshift setup of 2 taps which are connected to my cornys.
Fine, at the moment if the weather is cool as there is no heating in the garage but I think it will be a problem in the summer - how do I chill them.
By chance I have a spare larder fridge (only 14 months old) which is a Proline 3.32cu ft under counter larder fridge.
You'd think that would solve the problem but I can't get a cornie inside due to the shelf moulding part the bottom that covers the compressor & the plastic door inserts & mouldings.. :wha:
I suppose I rip off the plastic door moulding & reseat the door seal after carefully cutting around the edge of the plastic.
I could also hack into the shelf at the back a bit but I'll have to be careful not to damage anything.
there are no cooling fins at the back so these pipes are buried under the skin somewhere. I'll have to be careful drilling holes to beer lines & gas.
Then of course I'll have to convince the missus that it's perfectly ok to ruin the fridge. :nono:
Any thoughts or should I just use an ice bucket. :

 

[Mark1964]

would invest in a cellar beer cooler your beer could be as hot as it likes but it will dispense at 2 degrees if you wanted. Or sit the cornies in water or build the keggerator

 

[springtime]

Now that's an idea - how much does a cooler cost?

 

[Mark1964]

some on ebay ours was £140

 

[keith1664]

Do you need to rip out the entire door moulding? I modified my kegerator by trimming of the bits of the door moulding which intruded into the fridge with a sharp stanley knife. You're best avoiding hacking into the "hump" though.

 

[Darcey]

Take out the mouldings that hold the egg and milk bits on the door but keep the plastic generally intact and you will be fine. If SWMBO is complaining you can always take the plastic panel out and replace with a bit of bubble insulation or some insulation boarding? You have to consider how often you will be opening it.. even if it takes 30 seconds to get the seal correct on a bodge job you prob wont need to open it again for a week at most?!

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[pittsy]

dont hack into the fridge it self though , the dor is fine but in the fridge you may ruin it and end up de gassing it and also dont put screws into it too for same reason , im a kitchen fitter and ive ruined a fridge or 2 trying to fix brackets etc to em (never again ) boss wasn't happy with me lol