m1k3
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Kegerator 3.0 finished last night
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Kegerator 3.0 finished last night
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Any pictures of how you set up behind the taps? Details on temp controls, assuming top freezer and lower fridge are set to the same temps? I've been wondering how best to set the freezer and fridge temps to the same point, to enable using a top freezer without setting the taps down low by the fridge. Cool build!
Kegerator 3.0 finished last night
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That's awesome! Not sure I've seen many that used the freezer compartment for taps. Looks like 1.0 & 2.0 provided good build experience.
Thanks! I searched and searched HBT and Google and could not find anything. Not saying I am the first but I was hoping that someone would have posted and said that it was a terrible idea or not.
I will say... It is WAY more work to do this build than a just stick the shanks in the door and call it good. But it will be worth it for me because my garage gets over 100F in the summer and the hot faucets always poor foam until chilled by the beer.
That's awesome! Not sure I've seen many that used the freezer compartment for taps. Looks like 1.0 & 2.0 provided good build experience.
It may be more work than sticking shanks through the door but still much quicker than the coffin top build I took on. Beer makes us do crazy things...
As far as your design, the only thing that I see you may have to contend with at some point is condensation from the freezer compartment dripping down into the lower compartment. Not sure how/if you have accounted for that??
Other than that, I only see good performance from this design.
Well done...
Here's the inside
I just tilt it on its side and get some help lifting it in. I also use to have an engine hoist that I used.Just curious how you lift a full 15.5 gal sanke over the wall?
What is sitting on the Sanke? Smoke or Carbon Monoxide detector?
EvaDry silica gel to remove moisture. After the crystals turn pink, you pull it out and plug it into the wall - a built-in heater evaporates the moisture and they turn blue - back to useful -
Hmmmm. Never seen that before. Guess it could be useful if you have a lot of condensation happening in there. Thx
Hmmmm. Never seen that before. Guess it could be useful if you have a lot of condensation happening in there. Thx
I get ice build-up all the time in the south...
British Columbia probably doesn't have the high humidity that the Southeast US has - water drips out or freezes up in there against the walls all the time!
I get ice build-up all the time in the south...
That's it, thanks, this thread is so large it's hard to search through it all.@30Bones - you mean like this?
I could see that being an option also. I like the one piece idea as of now, but maybe I will try it with the factory lid and change it out if I feel it's not for me. Mounting lines to the lid would be simple with some stick on zip tie mounting pads.Many people put hinges on both the collar and the lid. That way, you can open just the lid if you need to check or do maintenance on the lines, or any other "quick in & out" job. But you can also open the collar and lid assembly together, so that the lines and tap shanks are out of the way for changing kegs, or to better reach the bottom of the freezer for cleaning.
That's it, thanks, this thread is so large it's hard to search through it all.
I could see that being an option also. I like the one piece idea as of now, but maybe I will try it with the factory lid and change it out if I feel it's not for me. Mounting lines to the lid would be simple with some stick on zip tie mounting pads.
I have a 4 tap T tower. I made a collar with a wood top. Instead of mounting the T dead center, I mounted to the left, opposite of the compressor hump. That way my beer lines feed straight down to the kegs. The top is split in two. The left side lifts up and to the left so the tower doesn't bang the wall should I need to open it. The right just lifts straight up for retrieving bottles.
Here's an old pic.
I don't have any pics where the left side open up, but I made it where the bar in the middle is gone and I mounted the distributor on the back of the keezer. I also drilled two holes in the back of the collar for the gas lines to my dual body regulator. I moved the co2 tank out so I could fit more kegs. I also polyed the top inside and out since that pic was taken.
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