After a semi-successful attempt to nurse more life out of my old keezer, chronicled in this post, it finally died. So I built a new one and am posting some of this process here. I found various other posts helpful when looking for ideas, methods etc..
The Chest Freezer; I opted to buy a new one. I was able to pickup a 10.2 cubic foot Insignia from Best Buy on sale.
My old keezer was black but the new one was white. My wife often complained that it looked ugly. So I decided to surround my new one in wood. I understand that some chest freezers leverage the skin for heat dissipation so a goal was to allow at least some gap between the freezer skin and the wood I was surrounding it with.
This resulted in me basically building an "exoskeleton" integrated into the collar that I would ultimately drop on top of the chest freezer prior to mounting the lid. I also wanted the new keezer to be easy to move around so I also built a dolly as a base for the chest freezer.
Even though I used wood, I opted to let my wife paint it whatever color she wanted as opposed to me staining it. I figured this was the least I could do since she "allows" me to keep my keezer in the house.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Various pics of the build process follow...
Pics of the collar prior to being integrated into the exoskeleton (more fun to say than "frame"...) and the dolly.
The Chest Freezer; I opted to buy a new one. I was able to pickup a 10.2 cubic foot Insignia from Best Buy on sale.
My old keezer was black but the new one was white. My wife often complained that it looked ugly. So I decided to surround my new one in wood. I understand that some chest freezers leverage the skin for heat dissipation so a goal was to allow at least some gap between the freezer skin and the wood I was surrounding it with.
This resulted in me basically building an "exoskeleton" integrated into the collar that I would ultimately drop on top of the chest freezer prior to mounting the lid. I also wanted the new keezer to be easy to move around so I also built a dolly as a base for the chest freezer.
Even though I used wood, I opted to let my wife paint it whatever color she wanted as opposed to me staining it. I figured this was the least I could do since she "allows" me to keep my keezer in the house.
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Various pics of the build process follow...
Pics of the collar prior to being integrated into the exoskeleton (more fun to say than "frame"...) and the dolly.
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