Vintage 1954 Frigidaire Kegerator Gets a HOT Makeover
by
Ashley Rader {Giddy Upcycled}
(IC: blogger)
$100
3 Weeks
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For my husbands last birthday, I got it in my head that I was going to get him one of those cool kegerator conversions from an old fridge as a gift for his birthday. Our new house has a small bar downstairs and a friend of ours was telling us how he had converted an old chest freezer into a kegerator.
I feel like I’m pretty handy and savvy with tools, so I was fully confident I could handle converting an old fridge into a kegerator. I researched it for weeks, and the more I looked into it, the more I realized it was not going to happen – I didn’t have the required tools to pull something like that off, and all I’d end up doing is killing a perfectly good fridge. So I stopped looking for a deal on an old fridge, and started looking at Craigslist to find a fridge that had already been converted into a kegerator. A lot of people were selling those cheap kegerators that they sell at Costco which get abysmal ratings.
I feel like I’m pretty handy and savvy with tools, so I was fully confident I could handle converting an old fridge into a kegerator. I researched it for weeks, and the more I looked into it, the more I realized it was not going to happen – I didn’t have the required tools to pull something like that off, and all I’d end up doing is killing a perfectly good fridge. So I stopped looking for a deal on an old fridge, and started looking at Craigslist to find a fridge that had already been converted into a kegerator. A lot of people were selling those cheap kegerators that they sell at Costco which get abysmal ratings.
I’d all but given up hope and was about to settle on a nice dress shirt and socks for his birthday, when I hit the JACKPOT!!
It had so much potential, but was even nastier when I saw it in person. This is what 60 years of rust and age looks like...
I found a tutorial online using this exact same fridge, which gave exact instructions on how to disassemble the door and inner components - and I got to work cleaning this bad boy up!
Finally I added some adhesive silver racing stripes that I got off of eBay.
Now who wants a tall cold one??
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Published August 22nd, 2014 12:08 PM
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Jeanette S on Aug 23, 2014Now this is just plain cute!....a real "Man thing"...great job! (I bet he is the only one in his group of friends that has one!)
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