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Not secured, though they fit pretty snug. The duct is easily removable. To do so I just back-off the shank nuts nearly all the way and push the shanks forward (extending them out of the coffin) which allows them to "leave" the duct. Then the duct can be lifted out of the female bases and laid...

The brown truck brought my shanks and drip tray yesterday so I ran the beer lines. Shank holes in the backsplash and duct: Here's the insulated duct inside the coffin. For those wondering, that's R3. We'll see how it goes, I may double it up as I had extra. The view inside the...

It's a drain-less drip tray so it will be removable. I'll have it in place when the tile is cut to fit. Then I'll remove it, set the tile, clear silicone the tile-to-wood edge, and set the drip tray back in place. Should be a nice tight fit, yet easily removed for cleaning. -- Josh

@Jester369 : How is your killer keezer doing? Any hindsight tips, or troubles you've had? -- Josh

You and me both! Will do! :mug:

"Needs refrigerant" = "has leak" It would suck to go through all that work building a keezer (collar, coffin, thermostat, etc) and find out a week later that it all leaked out again. -- Josh

Yes the air gap seems to be sufficient on it's own, but I'm putting fans to push the air out of that space whenever the compressor kicks on. It should be more efficient than the factory intended. ;) -- Josh

A friend of mine is a tile setter. He's coming by tomorrow to cut and fit each tile. It will all be tight around the coffin, and around the drip tray (which arrives tomorrow too). The tile is also going on top of the coffin. There are seven 18 inch tiles total. -- Josh

I picked up the porcelain tile for the top today. Wow, that stuff is not cheap! But it sure looks good.... installing it tomorrow. Now, to wire the Love controller.. -- Josh

It sure is! The thing is more beefy than I thought it would be. Not a special order or anything, just the standard one that comes with the TS13010. -- Josh

Thanks for the info, that makes sense. The brown truck just came and brought me this: I also ordered a half barrel of Sierra Nevada Celebration to help break in the keezer alongside my homebrew! :mug: -- Josh

I'm not sure about your freezer model, but it looks like there are no coils in the hump on mine. You could potentially drill there. I would think if you leave the freezer off to warm up, then kick the compressor on, you should be able to feel the hump with your hand after a few minutes and see...

I'm keeping the CO2 tank inside the freezer, on the hump so I won't need to drill through the side wall. However, if ever I want to have an external gas hookup in the future, I would go out through the lid. -- Josh

Finally done with the polyurethane! Much less messy work ahead. I remounted the newly rewired lights, their switch, and the 12V power cord. The light switch is mounted on the side of the coffin: The power wire exits the bottom of the coffin through a hole in the overhang (not...

Yes. However, I ended up changing the light wiring to put the LEDs in parallel. I realized that I mistakenly reused a previous calculation for only 2 LEDs. Now that I'm having 5 LEDs, I don't have enough voltage to put them in series and get the full brightness that I want. A great site for...

Thanks! 12V Positive > 220 ohm resistor > LED > LED > LED > LED > LED > 12V Negative -- Josh

Ok, I think I'm sold on the bottle cap idea. We did a quick test, and laid out a mosaic pattern, and it really looks cool. Planning to us crystal clear epoxy resin to fill it. The blank space is where the SS driptray will be, when it arrives. Otherwise, making progress with the poly...

Ok. I just called it a night after working on the keezer off-and-on today. First I drilled the mounting holes for the LED lights and sanded the entire keezer with some fine sandpaper to smooth out the hard corners, etc. Then some wood putty here and there, and again some fine sanding...

@wildwest450 and david_42 The compressor is on one side at the bottom, behind the side door I put in. This side (and mainly only the lower portion) is the only area that feels even slightly warm to the touch after running the compressor for several hours (from warm to 5 degrees). What I did was...

The coffin trim and the hatch are now done. Today is staining day. Just playing with some bottle caps. Still not committed to that idea..