Any fridge experts?

[Leeroy]

Hi Guys,

Hoping the brains trust on here might be able to help. 

Currently drawing up the canopy fitout for my Ranger I just picked up for a work

Don't really want to spend 1k on a drop down fridge slide that takes up half the cab with a 65l fridge on.

I have a waeco that is a few years old that I want to take the compressor and evaporation plates out of and make my own drawer fridge. 

I would need a new thermostat and maybe a remote display. 

I can make it out of sandwiched plastic/ polyurethane foam board and have a sealed drawer box made easily at work. That's the easy part. It would be 900mm x 500mm x 250mm.

This would give me 110L of storage. Almost double the 60L fridge I have now and only a 300mm high drawer full depth. 

Another option is this compressor online.

https://www.amazon.com

I'll post some drawings tomorrow of my idea.

Anyone done anything like this before?

 

[Angry51]

Should be easy fix.

I had a R75 Mack years ago and they had like a transmission tunnel

in the cab so fitting a fridge was impossible. Engel used to make a fridge unit

for boats and I used one of those and fitted it to a custom made

fiberglass cabinet like an esky shape to make a fridge which worked

like a dream.So hook in, it's only up to your imagination.

Good luck.

[Leeroy]

Some of the marine units look awesome but expensive. About $1400 from Keogh's.

Can build anything just need the knowledge so a lot of research ahead. 

[Angry51]

20 hours ago, Leeroy said:

Some of the marine units look awesome but expensive. About $1400 from Keogh's.

 

Mine was done in the early 80's, It was dear at the time but was well

worth it at the time. Not many trucks had fridges in  those days.

Most were still use esky/ice.