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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The outer sheet metal is part of the heat
distributing system- the condenser coils heat the sheet metal, which loses heat
to the room. You will find small diameter steel lines right under the
skin, with foam in place insulation between the lines and the inner box wall. It
will be difficult to insert more insulation between the condenser grid and the
existing foam, as the steel lines are fixed, and you will not be able to get any
"slack" to move them all outward from the box. Most chest freezers I,ve seen are
not designed to make it easy to remove the outer skin-IOW, you will be cutting
the sheet metal to get it off, and making it likely that you would cut a
condenser line, causing a lot of expensive problems. I suggest you just buy a
really well insulated chest freezer to begin with. If you want to improve the
insulation of a regular chest freezer, however, I suggest you glue more
foamboard to the lid and the bottom, that's where most of the heat is lost, and
no condenser coils are. Just feel around sides, back and top of any modern chest
freezer while it's running- most will be warm on front and sides, and the
coldest spots will be in the middle of the lid, and center of the bottom. Doug,
ex refrigeration guy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=9watts@gmail.com href="mailto:9watts@gmail.com">Reuben Deumling</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sunart@netease.net
href="mailto:sunart@netease.net">Doug Kalmer</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org
href="mailto:greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:14
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Greenbuilding] finding
coils inside (new) chest freezer</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Doug Kalmer <SPAN
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href="mailto:sunart@netease.net">sunart@netease.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Forget
tearing into the walls, most chest freezers have the coils near the outer
sheetmetal in front and both sides, you would just make a mess of a new
freezer. Doug</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>Doug,<BR><BR>tell me more about the coils being found spread across
three walls. How do I find out if that is so with all of them? Is there any
hope of accessing technical drawings that show the location/distribution of
the coils for these freezers? I've learned that freezers sold here have for
the most part been made by one of three companies: WC Woods, Haier, and
Frigidaire. I have so far only come up with one strategy for determining this,
which involves going to the appliance dealer equipped with my infrared
thermometer gun and ask them to plug in the chest freezers I'm interested in.
That *could* work out well, or it could be a pain.<BR><BR>As far as 'making a
mess of a new freezer' that is my goal. I'm not buying a freezer to display it
prominently for my guests. I'm reluctantly letting another kWh-sucking
appliance into my basement and plan to do whatever I can to minimize its
real-world consumption of electricity.. I'll be adding blocky panels of rigid
foam to the exterior walls that lack coils anyway, so the 'new freezer' look
is already shot. <BR>My plan to remove the sheetmetal which obscures the
coils is motivated by the hope that in so doing I could increase the amount of
insulation that resides between these coils and the interior wall of the
freezer--to overcome one more crummy design aspect of an appliance
category.<BR><BR>Thanks for your thoughts.<BR><BR>Reuben
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