Greetings from Saudi.

[Lucdb]

My wife and I are from the US and we brought our hobby to the Kingdom. We been here going on 7 years. We are in the process of making our first built kegerator. We have imported a mini fridge Statesman L255S from the U.K. as we can not find large enough mini fridge to hold two 5 gal kegs. Are first task is drilling the hole at the top and we are concern to drill through the lines. Does anybody have any recommendations or have the shop drawings/ location of the lines for the Statesman L255S. We appreciate your feedback. Thanks

 

[Snuffy]

What part of the country are you in?

 

[bracconiere]

Welcome! and i wonder if an old guy fermenting some apple juice gets 40 lashes, what a kegerator gets you?....lol, but anyway i can help you figure out how to malt, and

 

[AJinJacksonville]

There wouldn't be any lines in the top would there??

Another option would be to build a wood collar around the top, silicone glue it down (line it with insulation board if you'd like), and drill the tap holes into the wood versus the metal.

 

[Lucdb]

What part of the country are you in?

Hi there! In the Eastern Province

 

[Snuffy]

Hi there! In the Eastern Province

I spent 16 mos in Jubail in 80-81 during the construction of KANB. Don't blame you for not saying. Gotta brew on the down-low in SA.

 

[dawn_kiebawls]

There wouldn't be any lines in the top would there??

Another option would be to build a wood collar around the top, silicone glue it down (line it with insulation board if you'd like), and drill the tap holes into the wood versus the metal.

This is a mini refrigerator, not a chest freezer so there is a pretty good chance that there are lines. But, I have seen people build the collar for a minifridge to use as a fermentation chamber so it could very well work for this.

If it were me, seeing how hard and expensive it is to get the fridge in the first place, I would be much more inclined to drill 2 holes in the door and have the faucets sticking out the front as opposed to having a tower sticking up from the top.

If you're set on a tower, somewhere on here there's a method of using a paste (I think just baking soda and water, but I'm not sure) smeared on the general area you want to drill and somehow the paste dries faster in the area with lines...? I'm not sure exactly how it works, or if it does at all but I have seen it discussed a few times.

My preferred method would probably be to slowly drill a small hole just to pierce the skin/shell, then probe the hole with a paperclip/nail to feel around and see if there are any sort of lines. Hope this helps, cheers!

 

[Sergeant Hops]

My wife and I are from the US and we brought our hobby to the Kingdom. We been here going on 7 years. We are in the process of making our first built kegerator. We have imported a mini fridge Statesman L255S from the U.K. as we can not find large enough mini fridge to hold two 5 gal kegs. Are first task is drilling the hole at the top and we are concern to drill through the lines. Does anybody have any recommendations or have the shop drawings/ location of the lines for the Statesman L255S. We appreciate your feedback. Thanks

Daaang. Haha, I spent a few months in Saudi Arabia, in the capital. So many things were illegal there. The worst part was the no alcohol. Although many guards there offered to get us alcohol on the black market . No thanks..that would have been punishment from both the Saudi Gov. and the U.S. Our chain of command straight told us, they would hand us over to Saudi for breaking any host nation laws. No alcohol, no porn (hahaha laughable rule). Military plays no games, lol. Kuwait was the same deal. They tried offering a normal sized bottle of vodka for 80KWD (Kuwaiti Dollar, which is 3.25x US dollar) so.... around $260USD for a regular bottle of vodka . Outrageous market there.