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Upside down = compressor burn out….

@@Subgunman Surely you could flip the compressor. seems easy to do.

Yea how did u know where to drill

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.

@@jakesteve5803 leave it on coldest setting to test?? How long did it take

Notice the cooling panel on the INSIDE of the fridge was rotated down to be alongside the keg. Otherwise the cabinet itself IS clear off internally run lines!

@@jakesteve5803 wonderful to know. Thank you!

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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.

Ahhh the illusive helpful comment! Feel free to provide feedback on what you would of done differently with my build criteria laid out in the beginning. Cheers!

Thank you! Cheers!

Hi Daniel! Sorry for the delay. It's a small weird sized fridge from college, the keg only fit after a TON of clearance, but it made it about the smallest package possible, and it was something I already had sitting in my basement. This was setup for the typical sixtel that the smaller breweries in my state have available for sale and it's worked out great. I noticed this Wormtown sixtel was bigger than other ones I had had, so I used this one to ensure anything else would fit, and it's worked great since.

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!

They sure are! Same fitment across first gen Crosstreks too.

@@jakesteve5803 good! Cuz I just ordered them! With some led amber fog lights.

@@skmetal7 Cool hope you love them. I used some higher wattage Hellas which worked well and were a significant OEM looking improvement.

Vormulac1 I actually addressed that! I used alcohol and flour to check for temperature differentiation across the top, and bent the interior cooling element down while drilling. Thanks for the compliments, I enjoyed this project quite a bit. Looking forward to doing a kitchen remodel so I can move this hardware into a full sized fridge.

And the kegerator still works mint 😎

Jake Steve lol great

Hi Andrew, sorry I missed this before! I'm not sure, the three local breweries I get kegs from all use corny kegs. This one happened to be the largest so it's what I based this project around!

Thanks! That means a lot. I appreciate the feedback!

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!

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

Hey Dave, the freezer on this unit from the factory is a little...half assed...from the factory. it’s just a smaller insulated chamber at the top of the fridge, it barely kept things frozen, but removing that chamber made room for the keg, and the overall performance/temps of the keg have remained perfect. The compressor has stated to get weak so an upgrade may be in order.

Thanks for the response, and bummer about your fridge. Oh well, version two is on the horizon right LOL

Dave Rosenthal dude it happens. My life is a constant state of break it, build it, repeat. Right now my Forester is getting a sleeved closed deck motor. If that’s any consolation of the nonsensical way I choose to live my beautiful life. And heck yeah, V2 will have room for cans next to the keg!! Plus the wife will get a pretty fridge. She will like that.

Jake Steve damn man - that’s costing you some serious coin - but I get it. Being a car guy, I truly get it.

Dave Rosenthal it’s been a long term project. Got the block at a junk yard, bought the sleeves, traded work for head cores, friend had an unused STi crank and rods that he needed out of the way, I had a saw I rebuilt he needed. You’re right about the machine time and blueprinting labor, but I like to swap and trade my way into things over time.

I drilled just the metal part of the hole then cleared out the insulation to verify nothing was there.

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!

Hey John, apologies for the delay. They are more than twice the wattage with improved optics. The best PSX24W I could find before was barely more than visible on the road. The upgraded setup with bright and visually impactful. I aligned them so the strong part of the beam met at the base of the HID's so visually it looked great. That said, you can always argue the effectiveness of fog lights, as they are largely an aesthetic improvement UNTIL it's super foggy. I noticed in mild fog the upgrade was not significant, but in heavy fog the upgrade was 8/10. A yellow HID upgrade for the fogs that allowed me to shut off the low beams would of been a 10/10 IMO.

Hi Mathu, Yes this machine will support that CPU. That said, if you're building a gaming PC today, I'd opt for an AMD Ryzen platform machine :)

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.

Hi Bruce, it's all royalty free music. No Van Halen, unfortunately. :)

Thanks! I appreciate the positive feedback. I enjoy problem solving while working on projects like this, it's usually much more fun than planning to a T.

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.

Hi Leonard, I had this fridge already that wasn't being used, and I had most of the hardware from an old Kegerator. It made a lot of sense to reuse what I had since I only had to buy a few things for the project.

Makes sense

@@leoszky1659 I also usually only want a sixtel at a time. In my area I'm spoiled with a LOT of incredible local beer. So I keep a stand by sixtel, and happily grab cans at local breweries. It keeps everything fresh, (and COLD!)

Right on. Do you make your own. Or just let your local Brewers fill your keg?

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...)

Your grandpa would of been well within his rights for that one. I like playing with power tools after a couple too many beers on the weekend, and the pours start to get sloppy as the night goes on. :D Good luck with the smartender, those get pretty tricky! I had seen one done with a raspberry pi, but they require a lot of maintenance to ensure things pour consistent amounts.

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.

When life gives you a minifridge, and most of the beer you want comes in sixtels...

th-cam.com/video/dwbbXA1zOZo/w-d-xo.html You can see here that the rear is plugged in top the top right hand corner of the motherboard. In your configuration, I would plug the rear fan into the header to the bottom/left of the CPU socket, then I would use a fan splitter to connect the two front fans to the header I used on this build. The header I plugged into here is listed as the primary header in the BIOS, so it made sense to use that one, with the added benefit of cleaner cable management, (no wire snaking up from the fan, then back out again by the VRM.) You could also run all three fans to one header using a 3 way splitter, or two 2 way splitters. No real disadvantage except having to buy extra splitters!