[Greenbuilding] foam in a can (cabinet)

[wmdorsett at sbcglobal.net]

Reuben, if memory serves, that was a Sanyo fridge with a Danfoss compressor.
Is that fridge still available? This still sounds like a very good project.

In the very old fridges that were being made by Ford, (no wonder the doors
had all the style of a auto hood with orniment) the insulation was
fiberglass so a foam could probably push it aside as it expands. Most of the
formed plastic door shells are very thin and it seems that minimal expanding
form for windows and doors would be safest. In some of the older units the
coils were placed under the exterior skin of the bix. Great design heating
up the walls of the box that is supposed to keep the interior cool. These
should just be recycled.

Bill Dorsett
Sunwrights
Manhattan, KS

----- Original Message -----
From: Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com>
To: Chris Green <pojeros at telus.net>
Cc: Greenbuilder list <GREENBUILDING at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] foam in a can (cabinet)


> I added 3-1/2" of polyisocyanurate rigid foam panels to the exterior of my
> fridge about seven years ago. The effect on the energy consumption was
> impressive. This one, though, is a pre-war art deco fridge that would
suffer
> from such an overlay. Thus the extra surgical effort.
>
> On 11/5/06, Chris Green <pojeros at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > Reuben Deumling wrote:
> > > One of these days I also hope to re-insulate an old refrigerator with
> > > something similar. The walls on it are all roughly 3" thick, and I
> > expect
> > > I'll want to send the foam in with as long a nozzle as I could get.
> > Perhaps
> > > this is a different or not even feasible project.
> > If you have the room outside the fridge, you could build a kind of
> > cabinet around it, attached to the sides and top, and fill that with
> > foam. The door could be given the same treatment as well.
> >
> > I don't know if that would be worth the effort, really, but it would be
> > quite the conversation piece...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris Green.
> >
> >
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