One word of caution, The evaporator and condenser lines are run on the inside walls of most modern freezers, so if you attempt to drill a hole for either an external thermostat or electrical wires, you run a high chance of ruining your deep freeze. I have tore into several, and I'm not certain, but I think the box over the compressor may be safe to go through ? Doe's anyone have any input on the safest place to drill, or a method of determining this ?
John II
Instead of drilling a hole, why not just put the skinny part of the cap tube under the door gasket and dangle the bulb in the box? If you wanted to make it perfect, you could file a little groove in the top of the box so that the tube would not distort the gasket at all.
It's a shame you can't find chest freezers with the separate condenser coils anymore. It would make it easy to super-insulate the box. If I had more time for projects, I'd make a super-insulated chest type box, about 8-10CF with 6-8" of insulation on all six sides, then I'd put the guts from one of those dorm-sized friges in it. If a person was careful, he wouldn't even have to break the sealed system, just a little rearranging of the lines would do it.
Volvo Farmer
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