Talk about a Buzz kill!

[budbo]

Well I finally got around to drilling my Basement fridge installing taps calling the manufacturer and finding out the glass plate on the bottom shelf is rated for 200# so it should hold 6 full corneys without breaking (though the guy did say place them carefully)

I installed the Manifold on the inside wall, and havent decided about the gas yet (outside or inside) it will fit with 6 corneys but be hard to get too... The plan is four serving and 2 ageing at a clip.. the phase 1 installation is two taps..later I'll put 2 more in.

The Buzz kill part: I am finished installing the serving lines (3/16") kegs are full of starsan after cleaning, The CO2 bottle has just enough gas to pump Starsan through the lines to test it all for leaks (going to refill it next week when I have a brew ready to keg).. I go to hook up the gas lines and they are all too big! I call my LHBS and ask if he has 5/16" line... yes cool I'll be right there.. "You working on your keggerator?"(I spend enough there he knows me).. "Yea, I have wrong size gas line need 5/16"... "Oh, you don't want to put gas under pressure in the stuff I have it's thin wall, just for racking... "****!"

So no test of my new keg system! Then to add to that crap my wife comes home sees it and says "Where you drinking when you did that?" ... "maybe"... Well the tap on the left is a little lower than the one on the right...... I take out my trusty laser level and discover my wife can frigging tell that one of them is an eigth of an inch high and that I marked it wrong and they are 1/4" off center..

How has your day been?

 

[david_42]

Humm, pints a pound world round. Empty cornie ~10 pounds + 40 pints = 50 lbs * 6 => 300 lb.

 

[budbo]

your point it still holds 6 corneys 5 gallons is under 40lbs.. I'll let you know if it cracks..I have a piece of 3/4in plywood cut to fit.. the fridge will never convert back and the safety rating is generally around half the actual

 

[david_42]

Weighted an empty. A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds. If your final gravity is 1.000, it weights as much as water. An FG of 1.010 means five gallons is about 42 pounds.

The obvious solution is to never have six full cornies at once. This will require that you drink homebrew with some frequency .

 

[ajf]

Humm, pints a pound world round.

Except in England where it's 20 oz.

-a.

 

[Reverend JC]

Damned English!!!!!!!! Why can our American pints not be so gloriously large!?!?!

 

[EvilTOJ]

I thought a pint was more like almost £4

Oh, the British and their wacky Duodecimal currency system

 

[Duke145]

Nice setup. I wish I had the space in my houe for a full sized fridge. Mine only holds two kegs.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I did something similar, yet worse. Located the tap based on the 'topology' of the shelves in the door (still want to use some) and found the perfect spot to put my tap where it wouldn't interfere with the shelves and would be a convenient height for dispensing. Drill, installed, marveled and my craftsmanship, and realized that the freezer knocks the tap open by 1/4". Sigh. At least they're easy to turn askew.

 

[budbo]

I figured I lose use of the butter tray and half the top shelf on door next to it .. the fridge is big enough to keep the bottom drawers in place and if the glass cracks I can replace it with plywood.

 

[Grimsawyer]

Put mine on the side... It won't fit out my garage door if the taps are mounted on the door. Buying casters to put under it soon. When I'm sitting in my gazebo in the summer with friends over there's no reason to have to walk 30 whole feet to get a !@#$ brew!!!! If you have to walk more than 5 feet to get one then a tapped fridge is no good.

 

[Wheat King]

wowzers! i am extremely jealous of that fridge! someday i too will have a kegerator as nice.

 

[budbo]

It won't fit out my garage door if the taps are mounted on the door.

OOOPs When I built it, I never thought of that...

 

[the_bird]

You know, I bet if you moved those magnets down by the taps, maybe got a few more, you would never notice that they aren't lined up perfectly. That would drive me NUTS, I wouldn't be able to NOT see it (at least until I had a few in me), but if you have more stuff around them I think it'll be visually disguised better.

Overall, though, still pretty damn cool!

 

[Cheesefood]

You know, I bet if you moved those magnets down by the taps, maybe got a few more, you would never notice that they aren't lined up perfectly. That would drive me NUTS, I wouldn't be able to NOT see it (at least until I had a few in me), but if you have more stuff around them I think it'll be visually disguised better.

Overall, though, still pretty damn cool!

They will to his wife. Wives are amazing creatures. They can't hang a shelf, but they can point out that it's .00000005º higher on this end than the other. It's also amazing how they wouldn't be able to point out which direction West was if they were facing the ocean in California, but they always seem to know when we're going the wrong way.

 

[the_bird]

Oh, buddy, you speak the truth. My wife has NO sense of direction whatsoever. Of course, I'm blind as a bat and refuse to go back to the eye doctor, so I have a helluva time reading road signs until I'm on top of them; we make quite the combo when we're trying to find someplace new.