RealFloopyGuy
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Well, I decided to build a new kegerator. I started looking, and I decided to get the Sanyo one that everyone raves about. I found one on CL, emailed them, and hadn't got a reply. I saw a half dozen within 50 miles for around $50 of the 4912m model. I figured that I would be about $150 or so when all was said and done.
Then I remembered that I know a guy who owns a local bar that was trying to sell his old commercial one because it stopped working. I stopped in and had a few beers. I asked him about it. I got a non working True 4 tap kegerator and a pint of the new Cigar City Invasion for $100.
I am capable of fixing it. He told me a tech came out and told him it was the coil. I could get a new one for $100-200, but I might be able to fix this one. It might even just be on one of the ends and not inside the coil (fingers crossed). The refrigerant doesn't cost much. It wouldn't surprise me if it was something minor. Repairmen are pretty eh most of the time.
If I find that I can't source a replacement or that it is insanely expensive for the correct part and I can't cobble together a working one using pieces laying in my hvac friend's junkpile, then I plan to do one of two things.
1) Toss the cooling unit, buy a small cheap mini fridge, cut a hole where the old cooling unit was, and stick it in there. I think I can actually fit one in pretty easily and completely conceal it. I think it would be able to keep it cool, since it is pretty well insulated.
2) Take the towers off and use the kegerator as a work bench in my garage.
Then I remembered that I know a guy who owns a local bar that was trying to sell his old commercial one because it stopped working. I stopped in and had a few beers. I asked him about it. I got a non working True 4 tap kegerator and a pint of the new Cigar City Invasion for $100.
I am capable of fixing it. He told me a tech came out and told him it was the coil. I could get a new one for $100-200, but I might be able to fix this one. It might even just be on one of the ends and not inside the coil (fingers crossed). The refrigerant doesn't cost much. It wouldn't surprise me if it was something minor. Repairmen are pretty eh most of the time.
If I find that I can't source a replacement or that it is insanely expensive for the correct part and I can't cobble together a working one using pieces laying in my hvac friend's junkpile, then I plan to do one of two things.
1) Toss the cooling unit, buy a small cheap mini fridge, cut a hole where the old cooling unit was, and stick it in there. I think I can actually fit one in pretty easily and completely conceal it. I think it would be able to keep it cool, since it is pretty well insulated.
2) Take the towers off and use the kegerator as a work bench in my garage.