Help my Frigidaire

[XTRazzer]

Hey Scott. Thanks.

Where/How do the wires get routed out of the fridge?

You have any thoughts one way or the other on Option 2?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by XTRazzer

Hey Scott. Thanks.

Where/How do the wires get routed out of the fridge?

You have any thoughts one way or the other on Option 2?

On mine, there's a rubber grommet up in the top right back. I routed my wiring through that grommet.
You could alsp use the drain hole and silicone it.
My thoughts on number two pretty much amount to "why in the world would you do that?"
Get Chuck to make you a couple double depth drawers and use the wine racks that come with the unit for your wine.
I don't know why you'd want to drink 68 or 70 degree wine, but if it's just for storage and you'll chill your wine somewhere else, that's cool.
Hope this helps!!!

[XTRazzer]

I won't hold honesty against anyone.

I guess I just wanted to have the current humidor be usable versus sitting and collecting dust. I can deal with the Rubbermaid cooler.

I will have to ponder the wine more as I typically keep the wines around 57°F right now for serving. Although most reds serve well at 65°F to 68°F so I might not notice.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by XTRazzer

I won't hold honesty against anyone.

I guess I just wanted to have the current humidor be usable versus sitting and collecting dust. I can deal with the Rubbermaid cooler.

I will have to ponder the wine more as I typically keep the wines around 57°F right now for serving. Although most reds serve well at 65°F to 68°F so I might not notice.

You could use the wine cooler as intended for wine, and put your cigars in a rubbermaid container with beads.
A humi won't work if you put it in there at a low temp. The fridge will dry it out like a popcorn fart because you'll have to leave the drain open.
The fridge will run at or under 40%RH and without an excellent airtight seal, no wooden humi will withstand that for long. Especially if it's not incredibly well made. They're not designed or intended to sit in a refrigerator. It's not what they're for, so that's reason enough not to do it.
It's a long story as to why, but it's not a good idea.
A rubbermaid container would work great, but it'd look ghetto.

Mind ya, I'm coming at you from a $500 budget, which would make a damn good looking piece of equipment that you can look at with pride and smile.
But that's the way I like my stuff.
I don't know you well enough to know what would make you happy, so all I can do is tell you what I'd do.
The reason I suggested you lean on Chuck is because he's got the same sort of perspective on "what looks nice" as I do. He's incredibly anal and wears a tinfoil hat, but he's a craftsman of the highest order and he'll do ya right.

The long story short is that you can keep wine in a cigar fridge that's converted to a humidor, but you can't keep cigars in a wine fridge that's a wine fridge (unless you can make absolutely 100% sure that the humi you put in there will hold, and as I mentioned earlier, a wood one is highly unlikely to withstand the atmosphere, whereas a rubbermaid container would.)

Originally Posted by shilala

The reason I suggested you lean on Chuck is because he's got the same sort of perspective on "what looks nice" as I do. He's incredibly anal and wears a tinfoil hat, but he's a craftsman of the highest order and he'll do ya right.

Come on dude

Tinfoil hat

Tinfoil wont work now a days with all the high tech stuff coming at us, I upgraded to a custom made double plated, full face helmet made of rare indigenous metals only available online at www.theyareoutthere.net. I only have 12 easy payments of 499.99 left and it all paid for.

Chas

[shilala]

Originally Posted by ChasDen

Come on dude

Tinfoil hat

Tinfoil wont work now a days with all the high tech stuff coming at us, I upgraded to a custom made double plated, full face helmet made of rare indigenous metals only available online at www.theyareoutthere.net. I only have 12 easy payments of 499.99 left and it all paid for.

Chas

I just let them control my mind and look at the stuff on my computer.
It's easier that way.

[kelmac07]

Originally Posted by shilala

The fridge will dry it out like a popcorn fart because you'll have to leave the drain open.

Have never heard that one!! Scott you owe me a new keyboard, as I have spit Diet Pepsi all over mine from reading that. Some even came out my nose. LOL!!!

[XTRazzer]

Scott .... you forget that I am an engineer, some of this stuff does make a lot of sense.

I'm just trying to get the bang-for-buck factor to work out. Happy would be something that won't crap out in a few years and I won't outgrow quickly (yeah, yeah, I know...).

So, on to the idea of a cigar fridge, no wine.

Now what if I were to plug the drain on the Frigidaire and turn the whole unit into conditioned space, would I be able to place a humidor inside as well? In theory the surroundings would be at the appropriate temperature and %RH that I wouldn't need beads inside the humidor. Or do I consider to just sell off or give away the 100-ct humidor?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by XTRazzer

Scott .... you forget that I am an engineer, some of this stuff does make a lot of sense.

I'm just trying to get the bang-for-buck factor to work out. Happy would be something that won't crap out in a few years and I won't outgrow quickly (yeah, yeah, I know...).

So, on to the idea of a cigar fridge, no wine.

Now what if I were to plug the drain on the Frigidaire and turn the whole unit into conditioned space, would I be able to place a humidor inside as well? In theory the surroundings would be at the appropriate temperature and %RH that I wouldn't need beads inside the humidor. Or do I consider to just sell off or give away the 100-ct humidor?

The appropriate interior RH in the frigidaire doesn't just happen because you plugged the drain.
It happens because you provide bead and fan circulation.
If you did that, you can stick all the humidors in there you want and you don't need beads inside them.