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Hey Steve, thanks for the detailed reply - pretty damn good for a tinkerer! What you've written has made me feel a lot safer in the drilling department.

I have the condenser on the back. Inside the freezer, about two thirds of the way down at the back behind a plastic cover is a silver pipe about 1cm in diameter. This snakes from side to side about five times and is joined by fins. It's probably 60cm wide by 30cm high. I always thought that this might have been the defrost mechanism (my fridge is a converted freezer) but after reading your post I suppose this is actually the cooling mechanism and the fan at the top of the cabinet is the defrosting mechanism. (You can see I know a heap about fridges! lol)

I'm thinking now that going through the top will be pretty good with no heat loss. If I extend the Hole C into the cool box with a bit of PVC, this may create enough convection to at least get the cool box to 18. As I said before though, I may just be dreaming here!

Thanks again Steve!

<blockquote data-quote="PistolPatch" data-source="post: 106556" data-attributes="member: 1822">Hey Steve, thanks for the detailed reply - pretty damn good for a tinkerer! What you&#039;ve written has made me feel a lot safer in the drilling department.I have the condenser on the back. Inside the freezer, about two thirds of the way down at the back behind a plastic cover is a silver pipe about 1cm in diameter. This snakes from side to side about five times and is joined by fins. It&#039;s probably 60cm wide by 30cm high. I always thought that this might have been the defrost mechanism (my fridge is a converted freezer) but after reading your post I suppose this is actually the cooling mechanism and the fan at the top of the cabinet is the defrosting mechanism. (You can see I know a heap about fridges! lol)I&#039;m thinking now that going through the top will be pretty good with no heat loss. If I extend the Hole C into the cool box with a bit of PVC, this may create enough convection to at least get the cool box to 18. As I said before though, I may just be dreaming here!Thanks again Steve!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PistolPatch, post: 106556, member: 1822"] Hey Steve, thanks for the detailed reply - pretty damn good for a tinkerer! What you've written has made me feel a lot safer in the drilling department. I have the condenser on the back. Inside the freezer, about two thirds of the way down at the back behind a plastic cover is a silver pipe about 1cm in diameter. This snakes from side to side about five times and is joined by fins. It's probably 60cm wide by 30cm high. I always thought that this might have been the defrost mechanism (my fridge is a converted freezer) but after reading your post I suppose this is actually the cooling mechanism and the fan at the top of the cabinet is the defrosting mechanism. (You can see I know a heap about fridges! lol) I'm thinking now that going through the top will be pretty good with no heat loss. If I extend the Hole C into the cool box with a bit of PVC, this may create enough convection to at least get the cool box to 18. As I said before though, I may just be dreaming here! Thanks again Steve! [/QUOTE]

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