Vintage Frigidaire

2fast4me · Mar 4, 2015

Hey Guys/Gals,

New member here, but not new to homebrewing. I've been doing all grain for about 4 or 5 years now.

A couple weeks ago, I snagged a vintage Frigidaire off of Craigslist. Runs great and is in pretty good shape. Cleaned it up a bit, and removed the racks and freezer door (for the time being). Just ordered a CO2 distributor and some Perlick taps. The plan is to leave the CO2 tank outside the fridge, and run the CO2 line up through the drain hole in the bottom. I'm going to build a shelf (maybe 6 or 10 inches tall) and mount the distribution block to the under side of that, and set the kegs on the shelf. Three corney kegs fit in it great. My only real concern is the fact that the fridge has a two prong plug. I'd like to swap it out with a three prong, but I'm not real sure where to ground it to. Any help there will be much appreciated! I plan on buying this power cable, and cutting the end off it, then wiring it up to the fridge. Any reason why that wouldn't be a good idea? I saw a few write ups where people have done similar things with extension cords and wiring up pinball machines.

Cheers!!
Jon

Here are a couple of pictures of the fridge.

1977Brewer · Mar 4, 2015

Just ground it to the frame of the fridge. Any metal you can run a screw into and not hit a refrigerant line will work.

Onkel_Udo · Mar 4, 2015

Anywhere on the frame.

As a note, I have a slightly later model flat top, round front. They are awesome! The start up arc on these things can trip GFCI's...especially the nice $7.99 specials.

Mountainsax · Mar 5, 2015

Cool fridge! Can't wait to see the finished product! :mug:

2fast4me · Mar 5, 2015

Thanks for the replies! I thought that's what I'd read on here, but wanted to make sure it was indeed the case. Any reason the power cord I referenced above would not be a good idea?

MrFoodScientist · Mar 5, 2015

I'm no electrician, but I think that cord should work just fine. I did the same to my vintage GE. The guy I bought it from gave me a decent enough extension cord with it, but the original cord was dry rotted beyond all reason, so I cut off the end of the extension cord , attached the ground to the frame and wired the other two into the leads where the original cord had been. I probably should have used a brand new cord, because I have no idea the age the one I have, but it seems to be in good shape and it was the same gauge.