Take a lesson from me..

[gooden123]

In my previous post I had started a meat curing chamber using a beautiful pretty new reefer my dad gave me. There is nada online about a top freezer/bottom fridge conversion. I failed because after having every wire and apparatus installed, I decided to put an intake vent at the bottom and an exhaust vent with a 90mm computer fan up top with 4" vent hoods and filters and a timer and a dimmer switch. Probably unnecessary but it was in my wood shop so before moving it to the basement, why not? I wouldn't HAVE to use the fan but it's there. Back to why not. In basically every frost-free newer refridgerator there are Freon lines running through the sides too. So don't drill through them. Especially 4" holes haha. I will use that one for my fermenting chamber and picked this one up for $50 "guarenteed to work". Since I know top freezer is unfound-I'll document every step of every way on this post as I figure it out. I absolutely will begin by cutting out the freezer/reefer floor tomorrow if my girlfriend doesn't kill me

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• gooden123
• Aug 25, 2017

daveomak

 

[daveomak]

I've heard, you can find Freon lines by adding a steaming pot of water to a freezer or refer, and then turn it on...    The steam will freeze to ice crystals where the cold lines are running....

There are schematics of cooling lines in refers/freezers on line...  in they run on the side or where ever...

Look for a maintenance manual of your unit....

If you have, or can get hold of a metal detector the size of an ink pen, they should find the aluminum. cooling lines....  They make those units for scanning the dirt pile while you are digging....

 

[gooden123]

That's all really interesting and maybe in the future. For now I think I will go without a built in air exchange system and just open the door twice a day. Not like I'm not going to want to do that anyway lol. Seems like a lot of people are against fan systems anyway due to case hardening. This fridge barely seals and the guy I got from offered to put a new seal on it but that might work to my advantage by having minimal (if any) air exchange. And he also said he can easily abandon the side Freon lines if I want. But for now I'm leaving it alone until after a trial run

 

[frankljs]

Yeah, I drilled some screw holes into the side of one of my fridge for a lock hasp, and so happened to find a freon line the size of a shoe string. wasted that fridge...