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[TheFlyingBeer]

Some people use picnic taps in unmodified fridges and it seems to work just fine. The only problems you may run into would be increased condensation and lower efficiency from opening and closing the door more often. As far as the tower vs shank debate, it is mostly personal preference. With a chest freezer and shanks you have the added benefit of being able to revert it back to its original state if you ever care to sell it or use it as a freezer again... pretty hard to do if there is a 2-3" hole on the top lid. Take a look at the costs as well, generally speaking 3-4 shanks are a lot cheaper than a 3 or 4 faucet tower.

 

[Willsellout]

Gotcha. Thanks for the reply. I'm looking into a chest freezer purchase for my kegerator but it's going to be a couple months before I have the cash to get one.

 

[olllllo]

Tower vs Shank.
Form vs Function.

The tower has a sweet look, but the shank keeps the product temperature better and is more efficient.

 

[Willsellout]

Tower vs Shank.
Form vs Function.

The tower has a sweet look, but the shank keeps the product temperature better and is more efficient.

Cool...I'm a function over form kind of guy so the shanks should work out well for me.


Dan

 

[grrtt78]

i definatly want to use a chest freezer for my keggerator and for the time being picnic taps. my question is would i need to modify the freezer in anyway? temp control or nehting?

 

[TheFlyingBeer]

i definatly want to use a chest freezer for my keggerator and for the time being picnic taps. my question is would i need to modify the freezer in anyway? temp control or nehting?

Nearly all freezers I can think of do not have a warm enough setting to keep everything from freezing... which makes sense. Many people on the net are using Ranco temperature controllers, do a search around the board or google for them. There are other options but they seem to be the most popular.

 

[gnef]

i'm a big fan of love digital temperatuer controllers. for the price of an analog ranco, you can get a love digital. i bought mine at cole parmer: http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?sku=9352000&pfx=

 

[TheFlyingBeer]

Thats a pretty good deal on a digital controller, if you are a little braver you could find a used industrial temp controller on eBay for around $20 if your lucky. Thats my plan at least. Should have all the features needed for a simple freezer and probably a ton extra... but the price would be right. Just do it at your own risk and don't hunt me down when something goes wrong.