New Kegerator, Controller, and Man Cave!

Thanks to all of the inspiration from this forum, I have yet again spent too much money on this "hobby"! However, it is worth every penny! I love all of the DIY things you all have put out there for us to use as inspiration. From this site, I have been inspired to build a stir plate, temp controller, 1 kegerator, 1 keezer, immersion chiller, our 15 gallon plastic conical chilling system, and our all grain system.

I currently have a small dorm fridge converted to a 2 faucet draft tower setup, however, I have more beer to keg and no where to dispense it, so I needed to grow my dispensing abilities. So I've now moved on to a 5 keg system.

Image of my current 2 tap kegerator. My brother is buying this from me, so I'll soon be able to fund a dual pressure regulator for my 5 keg system.


With that said I leave you guys with some images of my own from my recent projects.

First, the controller build. Here I'm taping up the outside of the box before marking and cutting a spot for the "Ebay Temp Controller".


Here is the Controller installed.


Here I'm test fitting the outlet in the hole I made for it in the side of the project box.


Here is the outlet in place.


The controller being tested.


I wired the controller so that the top outlet is always powered on. This way I have an outlet to plug other things into, for instance, my stir plate.


And finally a picture of the back of the controller. This is how I decided to mount my controller to the keezer. I glued rare earth magnets to the back, and then put adhesive non-skid pads to keep it from sliding down the keezer.


And now onto the Beer Dispensing Machine! I bought a new Kenmore 13.7 cu. ft. Upright Freezer to convert. I went this route, due to the ease of getting the kegs in and out easily, plus I have no wood working tools at the moment that would allow me to make a collar for a chest style. I'm very pleased with my decision.

Here's a pic of the bling pr0n, 4 Perlick 525SS Faucets.


A shot of the freezer with 2 faucets installed.


A shot with 4 installed. I have a spot for a 5th faucet marked, but not sure what faucet I want to use there.


The shanks and beer lines on the inside of the door.


2 kegs and a CO2 tank inside.


The controller mounted to the side of the fridge with C to F conversion chart.


And finally a shot of my Man Cave. It's still in the works, but is coming along quite well. :rockin:

looking good

Where did you get the one different tap handle- looks cool.

The tap handle is actually a shifter knob from my old car. I think I have a pic of it in my gallery. Funny thing was, it was sitting on cabinet next to my two tap kegerator one evening. I looked over at it and thought, hey that'd be a cool tap handle. I picked it up, looked at the threads, took a tap handle off, and looked at those threads, and as luck would have it, they matched. The rest is history.

I thought that looked like a shift knob.

S2000?

Actually I think it was from a RSX Type S. I had it on my Prelude at the time.

Lookin' good!!!

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go search for my old shift knob from the 240sx now.

Thanks guys, I'm very pleased. This site is amazing.