My chest freezer (10.2 Danby) has an extra plastic strip that sticks out from the body around the outside at the top lip of the main body.
When installing the bracket to both the collar and the freezer, I am worried that if I try to screw one set of screws into the collar and the other into the top set of holes on the freezer that this ridge is going to mess things up. I can build the collar to align with the outside of the ridge, but that is going to leave some space between the bottom of the screw plate and the freezer holes.
Is this a simple fix? Can I just place some sort of shim between the plate and the screw holes and screw through the shim?
2nd question: what type of drill bit do you use to go through the plate if things are not lined up for the re-attachment of the bottom plate holes to the top freezer holes?
Sorry for the stupid questions, but I would like to keep my collar as small as possible (4") and I am very DIY inexperienced. A freezer attached collar (rather than lid) sounds simpler and seems to be recommended by more HBT folks.
When installing the bracket to both the collar and the freezer, I am worried that if I try to screw one set of screws into the collar and the other into the top set of holes on the freezer that this ridge is going to mess things up. I can build the collar to align with the outside of the ridge, but that is going to leave some space between the bottom of the screw plate and the freezer holes.
Is this a simple fix? Can I just place some sort of shim between the plate and the screw holes and screw through the shim?
2nd question: what type of drill bit do you use to go through the plate if things are not lined up for the re-attachment of the bottom plate holes to the top freezer holes?
Sorry for the stupid questions, but I would like to keep my collar as small as possible (4") and I am very DIY inexperienced. A freezer attached collar (rather than lid) sounds simpler and seems to be recommended by more HBT folks.