Leiabator, Princessbator, PrincessLeiabator, Forcebator, Maytheforcebewithyoubator, Xbator, Xfighterbator, SonofDarthbator........ummmmm.... Saberbator, Lightsaborbator, R2D2bator..... my head is hurting....I'm a 53 year old Science Fiction fan.....
Mini-fridge - DARTHBATOR
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How about an R-2-a-bator?
Paint a few buttons and add some pretend lights, and some stripes of prismatic tape to the white mini frige!
Paint a few buttons and add some pretend lights, and some stripes of prismatic tape to the white mini frige!
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White fridge-bators cannot have cool names. LOL. Princess Leia... My Little Pony... Tinkerbell.
Bwahahahahahahahah
Taking out the fridge workings isn't all that hard, power drill small phillips bit and some fiddling. It should have a fan you can detach, turn around (so it doesn't blow ONTO eggs) and remount.
You may have to rewire it - it will have the type it is on it and either be 12v and need an adapter or 120v and can be direct wired to a normal cord. It's not hard.
So then you have bator, fan, you have a light, then you need a thermostat of some sort. They're not hard to wire and both MissPrissy's chick a bator and Speckledhens mini-fridge bator have wiring instructions that are really simple, including pictures/diagrams.
In some cases you can use existing screw holes as mounts, sometimes you can't. I have found that the good Marine grade epoxy puttys (very high temp rated - water PROOF) will HOLD about anything on perfectly so it's good for part or all of a water-heater thermostat mount. Mounting fans with screws or with screws and silicone (nice vibration cushion) is useful.
Since my tools of choice are a power drill and a dremel, though I'm disabled with a bad neck, I still get it done. Neither of those critters means I have to have much brute strength. Mostly persistence and a tolerance for OOPS. Oops is the PC term for what I actually do say and it's NOT OOPS.
I love my dremel, it's a tiny terribly useful powertool, for someone who can't use the big ones any more. I have both the battery driven rechargeable and the corded MXP and they rock. The corded has a little jig saw and a flexible cable tool so the I don't even have to hold the weight of it most of the time that I use it.
Of course I then went nuts and tiled mine inside and out but I wanted to play with tiling for practice anyway. The heat sink it created worked
Then I didn't need a jar of water as I had in the prior homemade and the LG.
It's NOT hard and it IS totally worthwhile.
White fridge-bators cannot have cool names. LOL. Princess Leia... My Little Pony... Tinkerbell.
Bwahahahahahahahah
Taking out the fridge workings isn't all that hard, power drill small phillips bit and some fiddling. It should have a fan you can detach, turn around (so it doesn't blow ONTO eggs) and remount.
You may have to rewire it - it will have the type it is on it and either be 12v and need an adapter or 120v and can be direct wired to a normal cord. It's not hard.
So then you have bator, fan, you have a light, then you need a thermostat of some sort. They're not hard to wire and both MissPrissy's chick a bator and Speckledhens mini-fridge bator have wiring instructions that are really simple, including pictures/diagrams.
In some cases you can use existing screw holes as mounts, sometimes you can't. I have found that the good Marine grade epoxy puttys (very high temp rated - water PROOF) will HOLD about anything on perfectly so it's good for part or all of a water-heater thermostat mount. Mounting fans with screws or with screws and silicone (nice vibration cushion) is useful.
Since my tools of choice are a power drill and a dremel, though I'm disabled with a bad neck, I still get it done. Neither of those critters means I have to have much brute strength. Mostly persistence and a tolerance for OOPS. Oops is the PC term for what I actually do say and it's NOT OOPS.
I love my dremel, it's a tiny terribly useful powertool, for someone who can't use the big ones any more. I have both the battery driven rechargeable and the corded MXP and they rock. The corded has a little jig saw and a flexible cable tool so the I don't even have to hold the weight of it most of the time that I use it.
Of course I then went nuts and tiled mine inside and out but I wanted to play with tiling for practice anyway. The heat sink it created worked
It's NOT hard and it IS totally worthwhile.
It's just too cool. You are really talented.
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Nah. The truth is I am only PERSISTENT. Talented is getting it right the first time. That is not the case.
I'm willing to make mistakes and learn, something everyone and every living thing on the planet is capable of.
Persistence is something we are all capable of.
The true measure of a person is when they find themselves on their knees, and they look to the goal and persistently begin to crawl.
It is not how fast you get there, how directly you get there, how many mistakes you make on the way, only that you get there.
Nah. The truth is I am only PERSISTENT. Talented is getting it right the first time. That is not the case.
I'm willing to make mistakes and learn, something everyone and every living thing on the planet is capable of.
Persistence is something we are all capable of.
The true measure of a person is when they find themselves on their knees, and they look to the goal and persistently begin to crawl.
It is not how fast you get there, how directly you get there, how many mistakes you make on the way, only that you get there.
VADERBATOR!
I TOLD my husband we could use the dremel for cutting. He has a kit with a TON of attatchments and one of them is a cutting wheel. We will hopfully work on it this week end. I need to get a better thermometer/hydrometer becuase the cheapo one I got at walmart is off by about 6-9 degrees. Hence why I have the outdoor thermometer in the "Poor man's bator". I kinda like Leiha-bator but I'm thinking I may look to Spaceballs for a name. LOL! I'm a goof and I LOVE that movie. Besides it has special meaning for me and my husband, but I wont go into that!
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LOL There ya go. And no, I know better than ask about an attachment to a movie like that. Chuckle.
Some of the newer "fast change" wheels are larger and pretty hardy for large cuts with the dremel and the fast change head is so painless and easy. I love it for all the cutting blades types.
It really doesn't have to be a huge deal to modify a mini-fridge, but when you go to cut in have a vacuum or shop vac handy - the foam makes a huge mess if you don't.
Some of the newer "fast change" wheels are larger and pretty hardy for large cuts with the dremel and the fast change head is so painless and easy. I love it for all the cutting blades types.
It really doesn't have to be a huge deal to modify a mini-fridge, but when you go to cut in have a vacuum or shop vac handy - the foam makes a huge mess if you don't.
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