I posted this in another forum a while back and I haven't built it yet....so this is all theory....but i think it's a great way to get a chiller and save 500-600 bucks doing it

1. get a lot of 3/8 to 1/2 tubeing - like 50 -100 feet
2.get a small pond pump or small return pump - like one designed for sumps
3. get a small "apartment" or "bar" refridgerator - -saw a 2 foot by 2 foot one at lowes for 89.00 bucks
4. a can of great stuff expanding foam and or a tube of silicon

drill a couple 1 inch holes in the side of the fridge......make sure you don't drill through any coolant lines or electrical stuff

run the tubeing in loose coils in the fridge

put the pump in the sump or in the tank if you don't have a sump

plug in the fridge.................plug in the pump

you are now pumping water from the tank through the coils in the fridge back to the tank

If the water is to cold........take some of the coils out of the fridge......this will make the exposure time shorter and the water won't cool off as much

if the water is to warm ...make more coild in the fridge....again this will make the exposure time longer and the water will cool more.....

you have the temp controller in the fridge as well to play with and a ball valve could be added to the tubeing to slow or speed up the water as well......

if you have room buy a little bigger fridge and keep you frozen food right by the tank and a beverage of choice to drink while watching your babies too !!!!!!

I plan on building one someday but any one who joins in my madness and builds one please post and let us know if my idiocy works.......lol

Snowboss

save some room in there for beer.

Sounds like a great idea. Would you need to keep the temp of the house constant, or could you regulate this thing with some sort of valve/thermostat?

PS: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha......I just got banned from a fascist forum of whose name I won't reveal publicly. I really am impressed how this forum works without a moderator. At least ,if there is one, he/she's not a control freak.

Thermostat?

I don't know if those little fridges have temp controls, probably do, but I wonder if an air conditioning unit wouldn't also work?

If you're talking about this forum I like it. Something about the way it's set up, the absence of any moderating fascism, and the people here make it good for me. It's sped up a lot in the last few months too.

fail = something that has teh fails...

aids = well... it equals aids...

so when i say fail/aids, it's like... it failed critical mass...

ah i see ......makes sense now ...lol