[ale] Enclosed Desks

[James P. Kinney III]

Get an old working refrigerator. Being very careful, remove the
evaporator, condenser, compressor and thermostat from the case. All of
this needs to be intact unless you are a refrigeration engineer. cut the
back of the PC enclosure space off carefully if it won't remove easily.
Line the space with heavy plastic on the bottom. Put the evaporator coil
on a few wood blocks on the bottom. Place a 3/4" plywood panel above the
the evaporator coils by screwing it to the sides of the enclosure. Leave
a 2" gap at the front and back of the board between the board and the
cabinet enclosure. Put tape over all the holes on the back of every PC
going into the enclosure. Make sure all air intake is from the front and
all air exhaust it out the back of all machines. Install all machines
with cables and everything into the enclosure. Using the foam padding
from all those old hard drive boxes in your garage, seal up all air gaps
around the back of the pc's. This should act as an air barrier to force
the exhaust air to flow down the back, under the board, across the
evaporator coils and then up the front and back into the machines.
Attach the thermostat on the inside of one of the doors for easy access.
There should be about 5'-6' of tubing between the evaporator and
compressor. Cut a hole in the wall between two studs and carefully put
the compressor and condenser through it to the other side. When you
patch the sheetrock hole you just cut, leave a small hole around the
tubing and thermostat wires and cushion them with a bit of the foam.
Brace the condenser on the other side of the wall and use some black
pipe insulation as a vibration dampener. Depending on the age of the
cannibalized fridge, you may need to fabricate a fan mounting system for
the condenser coils. An old box-style fan works well and the coils can
be cable tied to it. Wire the fan in series with the compressor. Turn on
the entire system and boot all machines. The thermostat should work the
system fine with the temp set to the warmest setting (1 on a scale of
10). Don't use the defrost setting.

Don't do this if you rent.

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 12:17, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Consensus states to take off the door.  No problem.  I prefer to take it
> off then leave it open anyway.
> 
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