Recent content by njamesd

Finally got the beer tonight... 1/4 keg for $50 from a microbrewery down the street from me. Filled same day as pickup, thats fresh!!! CO2 was a little screwy to figure out at first, but were perfect now.

Mine is a sheet of fluorescent light covering from Home Depot... I forget which aisle it's in, but they have a bunch of different kinda @ about $7.00 a sheet. Be careful, stuff cracks really easily. Mine is just there to protect the aluminum foil/tape which covers the door insulation.

Final Product, kegs arent ready til Friday but here: Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Got a 12V CPU fan from best buy, wired it up to a universal plug from Walmart with adjustable voltage. Pretty simple. A lot of people say to use a cell phone charger instead, but if you don't run the fan at 12V I found it to be really underpowered.

Right now it's hooked up with both, I had a lot of spare time waiting for the tower to come, so I built the fan box with a tube running up the tower. I prefer this solution because now I know that the beer in the tower is cold all the way through the faucet. I hooked it all up tonight and I'm...

I just finished my build of this fridge... a weekend project turned into a 2 week project thanks to UPS. Will post pics tomorrow when the tower gets here!

Looking for some input on this one. Pictured below is the hole in the top of the fridge where the beer lines will run up to my tower. My plan is to not fill this in with foam, leaving it open, and then mount the top with foil-lined plywood over this box (I'm calling it a "cold box"), and...

Just want to say "thanks" to every single person contributing to this thread... serious and great resource for building my first kegerator! On that note, I picked up the "new" model of the this fridge at Lowes today and wanted to warn everyone: make sure you check the thing for damage before...