Batz
Batz Brewery...Hand crafted beers from the 'Batcav
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My chesty died after several years of service so I needed to set up another, I thought I'll take a few pictures along the way which may help others doing the same.
Firstly I scored this 500lt second hand freezer, I have five taps and I like to have a few spare kegs and my reservoir for my flooded font inside. I found 500lt is an ideal size for my bar, when I had three taps I used a 320lt.
So here's the second hand chesty, cost me $160.00. Notice the panel on the lid RHS, this has a fast freeze button and an on indicator light. Care is needed when drilling through the top, there's also a light under the top.
If you drill and attach the font straight to the chesty lid the thin sheet metal will not hold if firm enough, it'll wobble around and look like sh*t. I use a couple of pieces of pine to strengthen it up. My chesty fits under my bar so it does not need to cover to whole lid.
Screw down the pine at either end, measure up and use a 50mm hole saw to drill the mounting hole. Drill through the timber and metal but stop before drilling through the plastic lining inside the lid.
Inside the top you can see the pilot hole from the hole saw, we want that as a reference the cut out a clearance hole for the mounting nut.
I used a 90mm hole saw to cut out the plastic but you can cut this easily with a hacksaw blade or Stanley knife. It can be a square opening.
The hole looks off center but it's not, the top was on an angle when I took the picture.
A bit of beading to hold the drip trays.
A little stain and varnish makes the pine look a lot better.
Font fitted
Last time I fitted the gas manifold inside and found that a pain as the chesty needed to be opened to shut gas off and on. So this time I put it on the outside.
Firstly I scored this 500lt second hand freezer, I have five taps and I like to have a few spare kegs and my reservoir for my flooded font inside. I found 500lt is an ideal size for my bar, when I had three taps I used a 320lt.
So here's the second hand chesty, cost me $160.00. Notice the panel on the lid RHS, this has a fast freeze button and an on indicator light. Care is needed when drilling through the top, there's also a light under the top.
If you drill and attach the font straight to the chesty lid the thin sheet metal will not hold if firm enough, it'll wobble around and look like sh*t. I use a couple of pieces of pine to strengthen it up. My chesty fits under my bar so it does not need to cover to whole lid.
Screw down the pine at either end, measure up and use a 50mm hole saw to drill the mounting hole. Drill through the timber and metal but stop before drilling through the plastic lining inside the lid.
Inside the top you can see the pilot hole from the hole saw, we want that as a reference the cut out a clearance hole for the mounting nut.
I used a 90mm hole saw to cut out the plastic but you can cut this easily with a hacksaw blade or Stanley knife. It can be a square opening.
The hole looks off center but it's not, the top was on an angle when I took the picture.
A bit of beading to hold the drip trays.
A little stain and varnish makes the pine look a lot better.
Font fitted
Last time I fitted the gas manifold inside and found that a pain as the chesty needed to be opened to shut gas off and on. So this time I put it on the outside.
