bruin_ale
Well-Known Member
I just picked up a 6 cu ft chest freezer for $50 yesterday to be used as a fermentation chamber (my old one broke).
Anyways, I put it in place and realized that I'm going to have to:
1. Add a collar since this model has no hump, the whole floor is elevated above the compressor. As is, I can fit a carboy and pin-lock kegs if I use a blow-off - can't use an airlock on anything except maybe buckets in this one.
2. Put it on wheels - I can't open the lid without moving it because there's a cabinet above it.
This got me to thinking.. if I rotated it on it's side, so it was more like an upright freezer - it'd have 30" interior height (instead of the 24" it has now) so I could use just about any vessel I've got. This would also solve my problem with needing to move it out before I open it.
Of course, the issue is that you can't rotate a chest freezer on it's side because of the compressor. But I saw somewhere where someone turned a dorm fridge to a chest cooler by rotating the compressor assembly and was thinking I could do the same (but opposite) with my chest freezer.
Anybody done this? Good idea or bad idea?
Anyways, I put it in place and realized that I'm going to have to:
1. Add a collar since this model has no hump, the whole floor is elevated above the compressor. As is, I can fit a carboy and pin-lock kegs if I use a blow-off - can't use an airlock on anything except maybe buckets in this one.
2. Put it on wheels - I can't open the lid without moving it because there's a cabinet above it.
This got me to thinking.. if I rotated it on it's side, so it was more like an upright freezer - it'd have 30" interior height (instead of the 24" it has now) so I could use just about any vessel I've got. This would also solve my problem with needing to move it out before I open it.
Of course, the issue is that you can't rotate a chest freezer on it's side because of the compressor. But I saw somewhere where someone turned a dorm fridge to a chest cooler by rotating the compressor assembly and was thinking I could do the same (but opposite) with my chest freezer.
Anybody done this? Good idea or bad idea?