Upright Freezer conversion help

[Guidry]

Ok, my beer drinking buddy replaced his upright freezer and dropped his old one off at my house yesterday. Someone point me to a good conversion thread for an upright....My searches lead me to chest type conversions.

Thanks!

 

[carlisle_bob]

Hi

How big is the fridge?

Bob

 

[Bobby_M]

The first bit to get past is whether the cooling coils are built into the shelving or not.

 

[Guidry]

Ah! Never thought about that. Just checked and they are. Any workaround for this?

 

[JRems]

The only workaround is if you can bend all the shelves without breaking one. It's a slim
chance. Either use it as a freezer or post it on craigslist to trade for a chest freezer.

 

[CGVT]

I've seen a couple of threads where they bent the shelves out of the way and used an upright freezer for a fermentation chamber of keezer, but if you break one your freezer becomes a boat anchor. I think that putting it on CL and trading it for a chest is a better(and less risky) option.

 

[chrisdaman77]

I too have an upright freezer than we never put enough stuff in to justify it even running. I believe it is an Imperial frost free commercial unit. The shelves are plastic so don't think there are any coils since they are very flimsy. What kind of mods do I need to do to make this a keezer or even a fermenter for lagers?

BTW sorry for the thread jack.

 

[CGVT]

Probably just a temperature controller.

Check out this thread:

EBay fish tank controller build using Wal-mart parts

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/ebay-fish-tank-controller-build-using-wal-mart-parts-261506/