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The standard fridge dimensions don't seem to align with
typical cabinet depth, (at least not in this old house). They
allow food to drift to the back where it starts to study with
interest the manifesto of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and
they
don't let you see what is there due to depth. As kitchens
have grown in
size, the fridge needs to become wider and not so deep.
Maybe there's a fountain flowing in there, too.
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As somebody who is currently in the process of
shopping for a new refrigerator, I can assure you that
there is no such thing as standard fridge
dimensions.
There are, in fact, a class of refrigerators sold as
cabinet-depth and counter-depth which tend to
be
shallower than other models. Not always, thoughone of the deepest refrigerators I looked at just
yesterday was marked, confusingly, counter-depth.
And even within these classifications there's a great
deal of variance in terms of depth (not to mention
width and height, all of which you'd think would be
standardized, but apparently isn't). |
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//one of the deepest refrigerators I looked at just yesterday was marked, confusingly, counter-depth. |
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Those descriptions can be counter-intuitive. |
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Why not custom-build a fridge? It's just an insulated
box with a door; take the cooling loop from a
commercial fridge and your uncle is Bob. |
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Or, for that matter, buy a standard fridge and fit a
fine mesh false back into it to increase its effective
shallowth. |
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Instead of yanking a fridge from a commercial one,
it would probably be simpler to buy a kit for
putting a fridge on a boat. |
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Due to space limitations, many (most?) boats that
have fridges, have custom fridges to maximize use
of space, thus the existance of kits *designed* for
that purpose. |
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Since the compressors of these fridge kits are
usually happy to run on either AC or DC power,
there's nothing barring you from using one on
shore. |
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//fit a fine mesh false back into it to increase its effective shallowth// |
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An improvement to this fine idea would be to place square containers of water at the back to fill up this dead space whilst increasing thermal mass. |
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//An improvement to this fine idea would be to place
square containers of water at the back to fill up this
dead space whilst increasing thermal mass.// |
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Probably not such a great idea. Water containers
placed at the back of the refrigerator have a tendency
to freeze. The resulting ice then becomes an insulator. |
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I have been asking for this for years!! I hate my
fridge and just wish it would break, so I can buy
another one!! (which is not so deep!) [+] |
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What's wrong with having an insulator at the back of
the fridge? |
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Not a lot of choice there. I'll have to look
elsewhere. |
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the purpoise, some fridges for boats only run on
DC power, from the boat's batteries, in which case
you would need an adapter. Thus, the fact that
some kits run on battery power and mains power
is a good thing. |
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Of course, if you want a fridge that doesn't use
electricity at all, you can get gas-fired
refrigeration equipment. However... good luck
finding something which is both customizable, and
the right size. |
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//What's wrong with having an insulator at the back of
the fridge?// |
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That's where the coolth comes from. |
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