Why not both?

Post #445,508 by crazy 3/29/25 7:23:44 PM 3/29/25 7:23:44 PM Reply	Why not both? I saw them being stacked next to the building at the free place a few days back and saw this horrible filthy mess of plastic. And I envisioned all the things I could do with them and there's no way I could possibly ever afford them. You need a whole bunch to make sense and I was thinking maybe they'd be five bucks a pop. Free! Take them all! I've spent the last couple of months reorganizing and reorganizing and pulling things out and putting things back and reorganizing because the bottom line is there's no such thing as ever enough space. I anticipated hanging everything on the wall sooner or later. This is better. But there is the concept of wanting to see everything and have everything within reach. I think these are the best compromise possible.
Post #445,509 by crazy 3/29/25 7:42:06 PM 3/29/25 7:42:06 PM Reply	And next I'm making my own clear refrigerator I hate losing stuff in the fridge. Things go bad and you forget you have them. And the bottom line is there's never enough room so you squish it further and further and destroy the airflow. I can do better. Clear plastic rectangular shoe bins. Hot glued together. Multiple individual compartments. Piezoelectric cooling chip slapped on the side. Keep on slapping until appropriate coolness reached in each compartment. Tie it together using my multiple thermostat controlled plugs. Go to used store and buy three double paned windows for 20 bucks. Hot glue them to three sides for insulation. Double pane the front if I have to but I don't think I'll have to. When I run out of space for food, make another.
Post #445,513 by CRConrad 3/30/25 12:19:38 PM 3/30/25 12:19:38 PM Reply	Izzat a new application of Piezo-, or did you mean Peltier? Also, do you have a nuclear powerplant of your own? Those fuckers eat power like there's no tomorrow, I hear. (Or, enough to make sure there won't be a tomorrow...) IIRC Technology Connections has a video on how those tiny desktop six-small-cans-of-beverage fridges suck, and AFAICR that was mostly because they use Peltier plates. Didn't you just recently slaughter a perfectly good working refrigerator? If you still have the innards, just put those in a glass (double-, triple-, or more multiply-paned) cabinet...? -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #445,517 by crazy 3/30/25 4:27:45 PM 3/30/25 4:27:45 PM Reply	Yes peltier, sorry my mistake And yes I have one those tiny desktop fridges. I love it. Yes it's efficiency sucks. I don't care. No, I will not be reusing the pieces of the torn apart fridge other than as a carcass for a table and various parts. I just used a whole bunch of screws from it. The compressor is sitting broken apart in a pile of trash. I'm quite happy to have it there. I want solid state refrigeration. I Will have solid state refrigeration. If a refrigerator costs me three bucks a month to run right now and this thing cost me nine bucks a month, do you really think it will matter?
Post #445,528 by boxley 4/3/25 9:29:50 PM 4/3/25 9:29:50 PM Reply	gutted refer makes a great smoker "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #445,531 by crazy 4/4/25 9:49:35 AM 4/4/25 9:49:35 AM Reply	Refer? I assume you mean refrigerator. I cannot possibly get the insulation out of it. I would think it would be filled with poison gas that then deposits on the meat. I won't be using it for that purpose. But I guess if you have a really old one that you can truly rip apart you're left with a steel frame.
Post #445,532 by scoenye 4/4/25 9:09:59 PM 4/4/25 9:09:59 PM Reply	Cold smoker

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