fermentation chamber for conical

[marcopolo]

I've seen many fermentation chambers in this forum for carboys, but what about conicals ? Thinking of somehow modifying my full size fridge to accomodate a 14 gal conical. Have taken out the barrier between the freezer chamber & cold chamber of the fridge, but it's still pretty tight. Considering building a foam enclosed box that could be connected to the fridge. Looking for help/ideas. I don't want to go glycol, and I already own this dedicated lagering fridge. Thanks !

 

[jlaureanti]

how big is the conical??? I have a side by side also but i use a 15.5 sanke that i ferment in. So far all i have done is drilled holes in the center section to allow the temperature to equalize between both sides. I still have room above the keg for a carboy and a corny and on the freezer side i can fit 2-4 cornies

 

[jlaureanti]

so i guess my point was that maybe it would be cheaper to just get a different fermentation vessel and use the fridge as is...

 

[marcopolo]

that's certainly a possibility

 

[EarthBound]

Build a fermentation chamber. That's what I'll be doing for my conicals.

 

[hamiltont]

Here are some pics of my fermentation chamber. Maybe you can glean some ideas from them? Cheers!!!

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[marcopolo]

Thanks, Guys ! I have a fridge that I'm using. I've already taken out the shelf between the freezer & cooler, but now I have wires & the coils to deal with. My first plan is to try to rearrange the coils/wires to accomodate a conical. I know a 7 gal will fit, but a 14 is almost the same price (or the same at morebeer), so I'd like to step up to 10 gal batches. My back-up plan is to build an additional chamber that is either adjacent to the fridge and I could just cut a hole in the fridge and add a fan or I could fit the fridge with the fridge's door open like someone else did recently with a dorm fridge. This configuration is only necessary when fermenting lagers because I'm still planning on doing ales at room temps.
Obviously plan 1 would be cleaner & less work, but I don't know if I can rearrange the coils/wires. I've already ruined the fridge so I might as well follow thru. The fridge was free, and it works great as a fridge. I can still ferment/lager buckets & carboys so all is not lost. Maybe I can hit the lotto and score the morebeer 2.0 ultimate conical ! Thanks, again for your help !