Hi folks! I'm a fairly nerdy fella with a broad interest set. I'm going to begin sharing some of my projects and DIY's. This include projects on my BRZ and fully built Forester XT, computers, firearms, product reviews, and projects around the house.
Let me know what you'd like to see, and what you guys are finding is good and bad about my channel, and I'll do my best to improve the quality!
Don't hesitate to message me or ask questions about my projects, odds are someone else wants to know or has the same question!
Hatchet job, too big of a hole on top, no idea why you opened up the back, everyone needs to know that the sides have coils, need to be careful. The drain spout was pointless. Just a tray would have worked. And should have not flattened out the freezer to keep cold glasses
Dude great job documenting this. I have had these parts and pieces in my garage for almost a year. Welcomed our second daughter in our house and never picked up this project until I was in the liquor store yesterday and bought a 1/6th keg of our favorite beer - needed the motivation. This video is awesome - thanks man!
This is fine for the Cornelius five gallon kegs but when one uses a standard pony keg from one of the major beer houses, this unit is useless and it’s not worth transferring beer from one keg to another. If you can find a small chest freezer that allows a pony keg to fit flat on the bottom it worth the money. Just follow other YT's making Keezers.
COMPLETE waste of time video !!!! No instruction on how the 💩is hooked up, how it works - etc !!! Your biggest concern was that yuppie BS top that ya put on it. I’m an electrician & your biggest concern was wasting $ on the electric bill - but yet your drinking yuppie sissy beer @ $10+ a 6pk. Your priorities are confused !!! I guess you got low on funds when you were were drinking the Yuengling, which is my daily beer now. How about making a video on how the system actually works. By your tools being brand new, that tells me that your really not a mechanically inclined fella. That’s fine, ya gotta learn at sometime, even if you’re 30+ years old lol !!! 🤦🏻♂️ These people claiming the video was so good bla bla bla weren’t alcoholic’s & probably from Califagland with NO common sense. Sorry to 💩 on your video man, but it truly does *SUCK* !!!!!
In the video you can see I used alcohol and flour to see what areas evaporated, it all evaporated evenly indicating there were no lines running through the fridge cabinet itself. The cooling mechanism was entirely contained to the panel I was able to move to the side.
So is that whole inside hump/ledge free of anything you can hit? I think i have that same mini fridge and need some holes in the side/back looks like that big area you cut out was safe, is the top side of it safe also?!?
I already had the fridge and most of the parts. All in, 2 evenings of futzing around in the basement for fun and learning and less than $100. When small minifridges start around $100, this was a no brainer for me personally given I already had it. It may not be for you.
Honestly is the best policy. :D I need to get back to videoing my endeavors and projects. I'm here to have fun and get things done I want to get done, so never expect a perfectly polished DIY channel, but pretending like I don't make mistakes isn't worth anybody's time.
Hey Jake, very nice work little hesitant on taking on this project because I don't want to screw it up. But I need to finish the project. Do you remember the dimensions for this fridge? I need to place in 29hX20Wx20D cabinet and not sure if your keg setup was for half barrel?
I don't mind the psx24 bulb, but you found one in amber. I can't find them in anything other than clear. Where the hell does a guy get an amber psx24? (Am canadian, so that may be half my problem)
Hi Adam, apologies for the delay. Amber is a little tough, as it's more of an orange/low voltage color. Yellow is usually a tint or paint on the bulb itself. I had a yellow Nokya PSX24w I bought off eBay. It looked great, and was slightly higher wattage. Unsure if they were actually brighter. The upgrade however, was WAY brighter. More than double the wattage, and better optics/lens. :) Hope that helps!
If I was starting this project from scratch, that would be super valid! I already had this mini fridge and MOST of the parts to do it. This was an exercise in spending as little as possible to have a decent product as an end result. If I was doing this from scratch, the end result would be very different. My cost was about $30 more than what I had spent on keeping my previous kegerator in good shape so I didn’t mind. This was a 2 evening project, that certainly could of been done faster with a bit more planning. I do these for fun, not perfection. All factory functionally of the fridge unit was retained, I ended up adding a thermometer through the door later on, and it stays at a steady 35 degrees f. The first glass is sometimes a little foamy, but the second is always 35f. Cheers man!
Got to 2.50 and thought that fridge will never work again.....I was wrong... did a similar thing with a fridge that fitted the keg and regulator without mods... sooooo much easier...
Throbin 2 it’s hard not to feel that way when you’re trying to take as little as possible lol! Thanks for making it through the whole video. Unfortunately the compressor has since kicked the bucket, so I think when we get a new kitchen fridge this hardware will make its way in our old fridge. Still sixtels but with room for craft cans.
@@jakesteve5803 excellent work... well done for persevering.. home brew and kegging is so satisfying. Excellent production and content too... happy brewing
Hey Andrew, it was all fitment based. That's the compressor. It looks like I just flipped it, moving the obtrusion from one side to the other, but in doing so I was able to move it BACK an inch which meant I could cut much less of the fridge apart...ironic given how much I had to cut out, but here we are. :D
killswitchh nice! How did the project turn out? Did you try alcohol and flour or just go for it? I think the compressor is dying in the mini fridge after a few years of valiant service as a mini fridge, so it might be time to upgrade our kitchen fridge and get a bigger kegerator!
I’ve made a few of these as well. I learned that the hole beneath the tower only has to be as big as the beer line or you are just letting more too much air out of the fridge. Call it keeping the tower cold, but I’ve found that some pipe insulation does the trick. No reason for a hole that large -and I’ve even hit a Freon line once and ruined that unit. Keep up the good work.
the19thhole hey! That’s great feedback and something I realized as well when I was rewatching this video. I used pipe insulation up the tower, and siliconed it to the inside of the fridge to minimize draft. Ideally I would of thought that part through a bit more, but we all live and learn, and I think I’ve mitigated the mistake pretty well.
You should do more videos, man. You’ve got a gift. I know, I know... you’ve got oodles and oodles of time for that just now. Lol. But seriously. This was quite an enjoyable viewing.
Zero that’s something you need to ask yourself! For me, these projects are a lot of fun and a great excuse to play with power tools. I had a lot of the old hardware from a dinosaur of a kegerator already that was inefficient, and a Minifridge from college. I am about $100 out of pocket into this project and am very glad I did it.
Leonard Sawatzky I brewed with my friend a few times before he moved so it’s usually one of a couple breweries in my state, (MA. Thankfully, treehouse doesn’t sell kegs or I’d be way to fat...)
cool build, but that beer pour around 20:25 would've gotten you a smack from grandpa from my household, wtf kinda pour was that?! lol I needed to get some sort of inspiration for a similar project, instead of it dispensing beer I plan to build a smartender on the top of it that pre-mixes cocktails on the fly (I should put a coin-op in for the family members that come over LOL)
That is actually the proper way to pour most beers, it opens the beer up properly and releases any excess c02 that you would otherwise be ingesting which causes extra bloating. It also gives the beer the proper texture, one that is more similar to draft beer. The tilted pour became popular in america due to our impatient culture and the need to serve more customers at a faster pace.
