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Refrigeration Test Bench – Part I
This post is going to be a bit long because it will be largely media, since I’ve done no writing for the last several months and have been busy in my shop. I will let the pictures and videos do…Read...
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Refrigeration Test Bench – Part II
In Part I, I summarized my efforts to build myself a testing platform for refrigeration projects. I cut that post short at about the point where I began doing some heavy brazing work. Also, the...
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Refrigeration Test Bench – Part III
In Part I, I shared a lot of media relating to my efforts in building a refrigeration test bench. I intended to build the whole thing from a DIY approach, and utilize a York 210 – Belt Driven Air...
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Amateurish Refrigeration Research
I have a High School Diploma, and that is about the extent of my formal education. My real education comes from years of mechanic jobs, fiddling with and fixing things around the house, building...
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Cannibalizing the Ebullator
I’ve moved on, in regards to what I think can be learned from the first flooded evaporator system, I have been calling “The Ebullator”. Far too many limiting features were preventing me from moving on...
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Sealing Thermocouples Into Refrigeration Lines
I thought I would provide some media to help describe my method of installing thermocouples into refrigeration lines. I’ve found in working with the Ebullator, that the temperature readings I was...
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Ejector Assembly Construction
This is a three part series on refrigeration ejectors. Part I on theory, is Ejectors in Refrigeration – an Expressor, and Part II on manufacturing techniques, Handmade Copper Ejector. There is a lot...
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Heat Pump or Heat Engine?
I haven’t bent any copper for a few weeks now. Between the heat, a vacation, and some bad habits, the shop has barely been opened. Part of the reason is due to a recent fascination with power plants....
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Free Fridge -or- The Collaborative Cooler
“Think free as in free speech, not free beer.” -Richard Stallman Refrigerators are not software, but they could be designed and shared freely like software. Granted, I’m talking about hardware:...
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Beginning the Modular Refrigerator
Beginning a few weeks ago, I’ve embarked on a project to construct a modular, long lasting cooling system for domestic purposes. I’ve outlined my reasoning for this elsewhere on this site. 100 Year...
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Modular Refrigerator Project Update- Part 1
Long overdue for an update, I have these backlogged photos of my journey towards building a better refrigerator, and I feel I need to get these published so I can pursue further writing. See Part 2 The...
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Modular Refrigerator Project Update- Part 2
See Part 1 Continuing with my project update. This is over several months of work beginning in the summer of 2016, and concluding at the present. For a while, I ran the machine with a glycol freezing...
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