polvofiloso
Well-Known Member
I picked up this little gem off Craigslist for $100, including what you see in the photos plus a sanke keg that might become a fermenter some day. The kegerator a little old and ratty but it gets very cold and I think its a pretty good candidate for some lovin'. It's a Kenmore which should be a pretty robust brand.
I'm not sure if it started life as a kegerator or if it was converted from a small fridge. The cold plate looks like a freezer compartment bent down, but there are no holes up high where it would have attached. The hump is in the top rather than the bottom, and it looks like some factory-looking grommet/trim on the inside where the lines go up into the tower. Plus the door interior doesn't have any shelves, so maybe it was a kegerator from the start. I can't figure out why it doesn't have a top on it though.
Plans are to:
This may be a rather slow transformation, as most of my projects tend to be. So updates to this thread might be few and far between but I'll post up whenever I've got something to show on this.
I currently keep my kegs inside my beer fridge with picnic taps. I was thinking of doing a kegerator conversion on the big fridge but then thought I'd rather do this, and put the shelves back in my beer fridge for holding more bottled beer.
I'll be cruising the threads here in the DIY section for tips! I know they're out there, but until I picked this thing up I hadn't really searched through the threads yet. Thanks in advance to all of you who I will be borrowing knowledge from!
I'm not sure if it started life as a kegerator or if it was converted from a small fridge. The cold plate looks like a freezer compartment bent down, but there are no holes up high where it would have attached. The hump is in the top rather than the bottom, and it looks like some factory-looking grommet/trim on the inside where the lines go up into the tower. Plus the door interior doesn't have any shelves, so maybe it was a kegerator from the start. I can't figure out why it doesn't have a top on it though.
Plans are to:
- Clean everything up
- Ditch the crusty old beer lines
- Trade the CO2 bottle in for a current one
- Sell the single gauge regulator (I have a better regulator for it)
- Sell the tower and its single faucet, plus the Bud Light tap handle
- Put some casters under it--probably have to build a frame to attach the casters then set the fridge on top of it
- Build a new top, maybe out of Corian, maybe out of butcher block, maybe out of cheap laminate counter top, not sure which direction to go yet.
- Install a new 2 or 3 faucet tower with Perlicks (need to see if this thing will hold 3 cornies) and new lines
- Maybe build some nicer wooden fascias for the door and sides, or maybe paint the whole thing
- Start enjoying homebrew in the house without having to go outside to the poolhouse to get a pint from my beer fridge out there
This may be a rather slow transformation, as most of my projects tend to be. So updates to this thread might be few and far between but I'll post up whenever I've got something to show on this.
I currently keep my kegs inside my beer fridge with picnic taps. I was thinking of doing a kegerator conversion on the big fridge but then thought I'd rather do this, and put the shelves back in my beer fridge for holding more bottled beer.
I'll be cruising the threads here in the DIY section for tips! I know they're out there, but until I picked this thing up I hadn't really searched through the threads yet. Thanks in advance to all of you who I will be borrowing knowledge from!