Show us your Kegerator

[todd_k]

Here is my kegerator. Brought to you by a grant from the Flyin' Lion Foundation. Because a Sanyo 4912 is a terrible thing to waste.....

 

[rcdirtbuggy]

We need more pictures of this. Did you "vintage" this up yourself, or is it actually a modded old fridge? Either way it looks sweet, well done.

No this is actually vintage, the tower, Faucet, Railing and well, everything is original. I had to really clean it up and replace the power cords to get it looking nice. It had been sitting in some guys garage under a tarp for the last 20 some odd years, so he let me take it off his hands for the best price i've ever seen (Free). She runs great But my electric bill has gone up a bit. Oh well it's worth it. And I believe this isn't a mod either, I think it was originally marketed as a kegerator. I don't know though because the company that made it is no longer in business.

 

[blefferd]

finally here are some pics of mine, i still need to run lines up to the tap and thats it eventually im going to install gold shirron faucets in it x3. i just finished installing it today!

the ceramic tower is kinda wobblie because of the thin metal on the freezer door but i think i can fix that with some strap steel or aluminium.

this is what it looked like when i first got it

here it is after i painted it and put the tower on it

 

[SiB57]

My wife and I made a deal. I could put it on the porch (right outside of the sliding door to my family/TV room) if she could decorate it. I was okay with that.

1 homebrew keg dispensed
1 homebrew keg carbonating
1 homebrew rootbeer (picnic tap)
1 commercial beer (just until this one is done, then I'm switching to homebrew only. That 1/4 keg of Yuengling has been in there for ~6 months because I'm not drinking it and only company does.

 

[blefferd]

tell her she spelled BEER wrong

 

[SiB57]

As a German teacher, she'd disagree with you

 

[BierMuncher]

Just finished this afternoon.

Now on to the Chesterator...

The SWMBO even gave me permission to install this off the main kitchen.

"...I swear...I get a little wood everytime I open the pantry door and see this..."

 

[DeathBrewer]

tell her she spelled BEER wrong

LOL!!! great kegerator

 

[blefferd]

thanks i really want to add some SS rod to the backs and sides of it

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Just finished this afternoon.

Now on to the Chesterator...

The SWMBO even gave me permission to install this off the main kitchen.

"...I swear...I get a little wood everytime I open the pantry door and see this..."
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What are you using for drip trays?

 

[rcdirtbuggy]

I must be really lucky because my wife actually let me put my kegerator in the corner of the living room right next to the couch. How cool is that.

 

[anojones]

Those are great drip trays! I'm pretty sure I may have taken a leak down one of those a time or two in the shower

 

[Flyin' Lion]

What are you using for drip trays?

The_fellas

 

[BierMuncher]

The_fellas

Thanks Flyin' Lion.

I was struggling with an idea for a DIY drip tray.

Funny how hangin around Lowe's long enough seems to solve many problems.

 

[MrFebtober]

I finally got my build diary of sorts completed. I actually built it back in '04 purely for commercial beer (before i started brewing), but this site and this thread inspired me to get the pics and such online.

Plus, I've just completed work on a new tower cooling device that's a bit different than most of what I've seen around.

Very open to hearing your comments or thoughts about the project: http://www.pbase.com/mrfebtober/kegerator_build

 

[olllllo]

I finally got my build diary of sorts completed. I actually built it back in '04 purely for commercial beer (before i started brewing), but this site and this thread inspired me to get the pics and such online.

Plus, I've just completed work on a new tower cooling device that's a bit different than most of what I've seen around.

Very open to hearing your comments or thoughts about the project: http://www.pbase.com/mrfebtober/kegerator_build

Nice!

From your post I see that you're an Edmund Fitzgerald fan.

As an FYI, Edmund Fitzgerald has a somewhat notorious connotation due to this post on what people are doing for New Year's 2006.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showpost.php?p=175656&postcount=14

 

[MrFebtober]

Nice!

From your post I see that you're an Edmund Fitzgerald fan.

As an FYI, Edmund Fitzgerald has a somewhat notorious connotation due to this post on what people are doing for New Year's 2006.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showpost.php?p=175656&postcount=14

LOL, oh man. That'll teach me to post my favorite brews and teh intarnets! My wife loves it, too....the beer! She loves the beer, you sickos!

 

[Jester369]

I like the look of that. It reminds me of one I have seen before.

I would suggest a hindged top that opens just in fron of the drip tray.

Oh yeah, yours was a strong influence on this design (ok, I totally stole it! ) I am planning on having the top be completely separate from the base, attached to the lid of the freezer, tower and all. I just ordered the freezer today, so construction will commence in another week or so!

 

[rtp-brew]

Here's mine. Just got it put together this week. Still needs a few things but it'll work for now.

 

[TheFlyingBeer]

First of all I should say hello. I've been lurking around these boards for a while and now that a few final exams are out of the way I can take the time to post some photos of my kegerator. I removed the door handles and replaced the stock inside door panel with a piece of whiteboard material to increase the space in addition to removing the shelfs and building a platform to hold kegs. Oh yeah and the sweet two tone spraycan magic paintjob (better than old beige at least).

From the outside:

And on the inside:

Being in college means that at least one 1/2 barrel needs to be in there pretty much all the time but I have some new plans for my kegerator. I am almost done studying for a semester in Australia and when I get home I plan on upgrading the fridge a bit, soon as I get some money back in the reserves. I made a rough photo of what it should look like below.

I had my roomates measure the fridge out and it seems like I should be able to fit 2 corny's along with a 1/2bbl. :rockin:
I should probably go to the new member forum and properly introduce myself soon...

 

[Flyin' Lion]

First of all I should say hello. I've been lurking around these boards for a while and now that a few final exams are out of the way I can take the time to post some photos of my kegerator. I removed the door handles and replaced the stock inside door panel with a piece of whiteboard material to increase the space in addition to removing the shelfs and building a platform to hold kegs. Oh yeah and the sweet two tone spraycan magic paintjob (better than old beige at least).

I had my roomates measure the fridge out and it seems like I should be able to fit 2 corny's along with a 1/2bbl. :rockin:
I should probably go to the new member forum and properly introduce myself soon...

Excellent first post TheFlyingBeer.

And welcome to the forum, you definitely need to start working on getting some homebrew in that kegerator.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Funny. Before I read that I was actually thinking that photo looked photoshopped.

1/2 barrel for "them" and the cornys for "you"?

 

[FlyingHorse]

Oh yeah, yours was a strong influence on this design (ok, I totally stole it! ) I am planning on having the top be completely separate from the base, attached to the lid of the freezer, tower and all. I just ordered the freezer today, so construction will commence in another week or so!

Jester, Brewpastor -- I have a pending great deal on a 23 cu ft chest freezer, and want to turn it into something similar to your designs. Do you have any plans/tips/things you wish you'd done differently? PM me if so. Thanks!

 

[FlyingHorse]

You may say that you only want two taps....

You should plan on having as many taps as the fridge will hold. This isn't suggesting that you have to buy them all at once. You should just plan for the expansion... In other words, don't cut any holes that will limit future expansion or invest in a drip tray that only has room for 2 taps.

Couldn't agree more!

One day my wife said she hated all the fuss of bottling (she wasn't doing any of it, just didn't like having the bottles around, me taking over the kitchen, the time it took, etc.) So I jumped at the opportunity and said, "well, I could keg it". Bought a Sanyo 1206 that day, with the two-tap tower. Awesome, right?

Yeah, well now I find myself with 5, 6, 8 beers ready to go...and two taps. So I jury-rigged a picnic-tap setup in an old upright freezer that the previous owners of our house left behind. Not real easy to use, not very aesthetically appealing, and not without its problems.

So now I have a line on a 23 cu ft chest freezer (craigslist deal), and plans to rig it up for at least 8 taps. Maybe more; I think it'll hold at least 10 cornies.

'course, then I'll need more kegs

 

[drayman86]

Word of caution about these old fridges: they're NOT grounded. I added a grounding wire to the frame at the rear of the fridge (white wire in first pic) and ran it to a grounding clamp that connects to my house electric grounding wire that runs (conveniently) right overhead above the suspended ceiling. There are documented cases of ungrouded fridges like these causing electrocutions; talk about a buzz killer......

 

[kornkob]

I shoudl take another pic of my kegerator. Last year the wheels of my heier kegerator got bitched up rolling it accross a parking lot so they've never worked right since. On inspection it became apparent that the wheels were totally inadequet in several ways. Too small so they hung up on small things. They were mounted in the metal sides with on singificant renforcement so they bent easily. They were cheap plastic instead of rubber. Lots of issues.

So recently I picked up some 4 inch casters and mounted the kegerator on those using some scrap lumber and some lag screws. Slap a little black paint on the wood to make that disappear and I've got a kegerator that I can move around with one finger.

 

[Flyin' Lion]

Kornkob, just an FYI, my buddy jacked up his Danby kegerator by moving it around a lot (he also transported it on his four-wheeler up and down the street). He was able to get a replacement under warranty, but he also only had it a short while.

I don't know if you move yours a lot, but it's something to consider.

 

[kornkob]

Been moving it for years. It's fine.

 

[Flyin' Lion]

On second thought, my buddy is kind of a knucklehead. His was probably self inflicted. I'm sure bouncing around on a quad wouldn't be good for any appliance.

 

[Bobby_M]

Here's a couple pics of my finished product:

I've got 7" mower wheels on one end and 3" swivel castors on the other. I haven't tried doing it yet, but this design was so I could roll it out of the garage and around to the back of the house over a bit of grass (hence the larger wheels). If I had a welding machine at my house, I would have made a rectangular dolly frame out of bedframe angle iron and weld the castors and rear axle to it. There is really nothing to screw into at the bottom.