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I agree that spreading foam you against the compressor is a bad idea. However, i used cardboard to create a mold between the compressor and the foam i sprayed. So far so good! It's been running non stop for a few years without any issues.

Moving the compressor was rather rather easy. It was held to the frame by 4 bolts and all I had to do is unbolt it and slide it back. No bending or modifying any of the lines needed. It is now only held on by 2 of the 4 bolts. Looking back a collar would have been much cleaner looking. But when...

Unfortunately i have no idea what the model number is. This fridge has since been modified once again with a second temperature controlled chamber off the side and it would be quite a pain in the a$$ to get behind it to check as its a beast to move lol. I did end up pulling the foil tape. It...

Yeah...that was my first attempt to make a carboy fit in the fridge when i started brewing. I didn't realize i could have simply made a collar and instead cut the hump out and filled the hole with foam then decided to spray it with rubber sealer. Lessons learned but its still working strong!

Here is the view of the inside of the fridge. At the moment I am using circular pieces of the 2" foam to block off the vents to the other chambers while they are not in use. I figured it would further reduce cold air transfer out of the fridge until there is something in the other chambers.

There are only two fans. One on each supply. I mounted them inside each chamber to get them out of the way of any heavy condensation in the fridge.

It is the return for the cheese chamber. In order for the damper to function properly it needed to sit vertically and couldn't be placed directly in the floor of the chamber.

The draft blockers do a great job of keeping any unwanted air flow from one chamber to another when the fans are not running. Since each chamber is controlled by its own temp controller i can keep temperatures within one degree of the set point. Even with nothing in the ale chamber the fan...

Initially I was using a mini fridge with an ebay temp controller as a fermentation chamber. Once I decided to brew a lager I realized that my nice temperature controlled space was going to be out of commission for way longer than I would like. I decided to build a second chamber off to the side...

While cold crashing a batch a few months ago I was having a lot of trouble with suck back. I know its not a big deal since I use a Star San solution in my airlocks, but its still annoying and unsettling for some reason. So I brewed my first lager this past weekend and have run into a bit of post...

If you are staying near Fenway I would suggest going to Penguin Pizza in Brigham circle. They have over 20 beers on tap and a huge selection of bottles.plus their pizza is awesome a well.

I bottled this last week and just opened a bottle "to test carbonation" :mug: and its fantastic. I dont have a bottle of the real thing in front of me to compare just yet but regardless of how close it really is this is a fantastic clone :rockin:

A nice cool PBR waiting for HELLYEAH and Volbeat to get on stage

Accidentally half froze a bottle of cream ale...drained the liquid into a cup and drank it...it was pretty good!

Had myself a steak and cheese dinner with some sweet corn and rounded it of with a 6 pack of left hand nitro milk stout

I know I was talking to one shop owner who had one go while he was filling it. Luckily he fills in a water bath and it contained it somewhat.

The shops around me will not let me fill them anymore...they look at the numbers stamped on the side and send me away :(

I looked at a few different food grade epoxy options and although they were food grade and cheep, they couldn't tolerate the low PH. One company named Carboline does offer a product called Plasite 9133 that would work perfectly...

Thanks everyone! It looks like I have a few options. I did find some of the food grade epoxy coatings and sent a few emails out about them. I also found a few cross section pictures of aluminum tanks and it seems like there is more space inside than I thought. I will keep everyone posted if I...

I own 2 old aluminum 80 scuba tanks that I can no longer fill because the batch of aluminum used to make them was flawed and was causing tanks to explode...So i would like to re-purpose them as fermentors. My first concern is the aluminum being exposed the PH of fermenting beer. I was wondering...