Re: Ice Box [message #302453 is a reply to message #302417] |
Mon, 20 June 2016 21:22 |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547 Registered: March 2007 Location: S.E. Michigan
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As someone that grew up with pond ice for "refrigeration", let me adjust your plan.... And oil lamps...
Do not put an ice chest where the refrigerator is. If it is a stand up unit, take it out and build a storage chest to replace it.
Next, pick a place like a dinette seat to build a horizontal ice chest in. Make it out of low density styrene foam and do the outside shell with fiberglass and EPOXY. Polyester or vinylester resin will attack the styrene foam. You will have to put about 18oz of glass in the bottom to prevent impact damage from cans dropped into the chest. If you fasten the lid to the seat, it will be easy to access. Don't put ice in it. Freeze the water in jugs so the bottom of the chest never get wet (more than condensation). You can drink the cold water, but you have to make special arrangements to have ice for drinks.
This is a condensation of how my father built the ice chest for his last sailboat and very much how I did the same for mine. If you do it right, you can beat a Yeti all the way along.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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