Cut out the bottom of a deep Freezer?

[ssgearhart]

So, the OP is talking about cutting the bottom of the chest freezer out, then using it Cone of Silence style.

 

[vmaxept]

deleted - post/comments were not addressing the OP, apologize for the post

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw, the OP's requirement is to house a standing conical fermentor without lifting same...

 

[vmaxept]

I guess my post was off topic as posted by the OP My error

 

[Beermeister32]

Sounds to me like a great method to screw up an otherwise good chest freezer. Nearly impossible to get it right, you still have the collar and taps and all the beer and CO2 lines which would have to lift and clear everything inviting leaks. Try to chase those leaks down with your spray bottle while its lifted.

Then you still need a pulley to lift while you work on it…

… and then you get a keg leak and it drains 5 gallons on the floor.

I’d toss this idea in the beer scrap heap!

 

[dcrog]

Can you please post a picture?

It's just a matter of placement. The 25 dollar Craigslist freezer in the corner ferments with an STC 1000 controller I put in an old first aid kit box. The roller in the unistrut makes it pretty simple. You were going to rig a pulley system anyway...

I need to get rid of a bunch of delabeled bottles. Anyone still bottle around Louisville?

 

[Bobby_M]

I've seen quite a few ill-advised ideas around here over the last 15 years and this one is right up there with the worst of them. I know we're supposed to be supportive of creativity and all, but this feels a lot like telling your kid they really could be the next Kelly Clarkson with a straight face.

 

[Jonakr]

I've seen quite a few ill-advised ideas around here over the last 15 years and this one is right up there with the worst of them. I know we're supposed to be supportive of creativity and all, but this feels a lot like telling your kid they really could be the next Kelly Clarkson with a straight face.

Thanks, that totally gave me the chuckles. I was thinking "hey guys, hold my beer and watch this!"

I've drilled 5 holes through the side of my fridge for taps and air line, and that was one of the more nerve-wracking things I've done. My process was to slowly slice through the inner plastic layer of lining, pull all the insulation in the diameter of the hole out with a dull screwdriver, then drill through the outer metal layer of the fridge.

Done that way, this could work

 

[dcrog]

Thebraves2000

I was tongue in cheek earlier, but I think you said the conical is too tall and too heavy. Therefore you are building a box with a door below the freezer and cutting the bottom out.

If you simply add a collar (cheap, easy, and quick) on top for height you are simply needing to lift the conical with beer as you would in the picture I added above.

Not sure what your conical weighs but the rig I have above is rated at several hundred pounds. If you have the height to raise the freezer you should have the height to raise the conical and let gravity drain it from the bottom.

I raise my 7 gallon carboy onto the counter, as described before, siphon to keg and put the keg in the keezer with the same system.

 

[gagaswift89]

I'm thinking about cutting the bottom out of a deep freezer but I'm not sure if it has coils in the bottom. I figured out the deep freezer empty doesn't weight that mush compared to 5.5 gal of beer and would be an easy lift compared to my fermenter. Add some pulley and up the chest freezer would go. Besides using a laser temperature to check for hot spot (ie the coil) I can't think of any other way. I know the coils are in the side walls (super cold) and the outside wall gets (hot).
Its a insignia deep freezer. Your thoughts?

did u ever cut into it to find out? in need of making a couple of holes for piping and don't know where not to drill:/ have a magic chef 3.5 cu chest pretty much same as yours @Thebraves2000