D-brewmeister said:
There is one issue that I see, however:
The door has a plastic liner, with clips and stuff for the door bottle holders and stuff, and there is a big lip at the bottom of this liner. With that lip sticking into the bottom of the fridge, the door won't close when a keg is in there, as it reduces the floor area to around 6-7 inches deep. So my question is: How do I remove that door liner, with out totaly destroying it? I peeled back the rubber door gasket a bit and didn't see any obvious screw heads or anything, so is it just some sort of pressure fit? Should I just say to hell with keeping the fridge sellable and go to town, rip the door up, drill some holes through for taps etc.
Oh, and one more thing, has anyone had any luck installing a tap tower in a fridge that has a freezer compartment at the top?
No need to worry my friend! I have solutions....
You'll have to modify the fridge a tiny bit, and your problems will be solved.
First, the lip on the door--here's what I did:
I made a small shelf from a piece of floor tiling and a few pieces of scrap wood I had laying around, and made a few cuts. Its crude, but it solved my problem easily. The keg sits on top of the shelf and even tilts when I open the fridge for easy access to it! I'll get you exact measurments if you want them. It took me less than a half hour to do it.
Bottom view of the crude shelf
View of shelf with the keg sitting on it in the fridge, the lip on the door slides right underneath it.
Draft tower was just as easy. I drilled a hole right through the top of the fridge. It doesn't have any freon lines in the top so its a safe project. I used a 1 1/2 inch hole bit to drill it. You'll go through a the thin layer of metal on the top of the fridge, as well as about 2 inches of insulation, and then a small layer of plastic inside the fridge. It drilled through extremely easily. The I installed the tower and ran the beer line through the drill hole in the top, and ran it behind the freezer compartment. No, the beer line will not freeze. Mine works perfectly.
You can see by the next pic that I carefully bent the metal freezer compartment up and connected it into the slots int he top. Once you look in your fridge you'll easily see what I did. By bending it, it creates plenty of room for 1 5 gal corny and one 3 gal corny. I can have one corny hooked to tap beer, and another as a lager tank. Its exactly what I wanted to do with my limited space right now.
If you have questions, I can help you with any of it.