Fridge - the unit is not cheap, so if something goes wrong, we do our best to revive it. But if neither, nor the call of the master did not help, and the age of the refrigerator advises to send it to retirement, you can give the old device a new life!

To do this, just throw away everything unnecessary and add some details. And then you can already use it for the purposes that are now for you The most important... Improvement of the cottage or renovation of the interior - it's up to you!

What to make out of an old refrigerator

1. Even if your refrigerator does not cool food, this does not mean that nothing else can be stored in it. Repair tools or gaming accessories - choose what you are passionate about.
2. A simple cellar for vegetables grown in our own country house. Each fruit has its place!

   

3. Attach glass instead of the door, and you have a simple greenhouse. Moisture and heat will remain safe and sound, and you will get early vegetables and herbs from your garden!

   

4. New home for a four-legged friend. And even a few rooms!

   

5. Even if the refrigerator no longer copes with its main function with the help of coolant and electricity, you can still use it for its intended purpose. Pour ice into it and feel free to throw a summer party with cold drinks!

   

6. A creative wardrobe for lovers of unusual furniture. Everything is in its place!

   

7. If everything else can still be understood, then this Altaian went even further. A real snowmobile with a speed of up to 30 km / h!

   

8. Budget suburban cellar. You just need to try and bring the ventilation out into the street.

   

9. Fancy counters for fairs. Books, handmade, other exclusive goods - such things will look good on creative shelves.

   

10. Is the old dollhouse too small? Here's how to fix this problem!

    

11. Seedling boxes or flower bed borders - all this can be done from an old refrigerator. You can try and decorate it to your liking!

    

12. The designers went even further and offered their own vision of this device in the interior. We present to your attention a sofa-refrigerator and a computer table with a chair from the same device!

    

Now you definitely won't throw out the old Dnipro or Oka. Try to bring these ideas to life and be sure to tell your friends about them!

Drying (dryer) for mushrooms, fruits, berries, herbs, herbs from the old refrigerator

Drying (dryer) for mushrooms, fruits, berries, herbs, herbs from the old refrigerator. How to make drying.

From the author Several years ago I made myself a harvest, etc., and it still serves faithfully. But its effectiveness all the time seemed to me insufficient, or rather, I wanted to make it even more effective. And then the other day an old refrigerator fell into my hands. And I decided to make a drying cabinet with forced ventilation out of it, which will make the drying and drying process very fast, effective and safe (in terms of getting rid of flies and wasps that tend to visit the processed products). They are known to not tolerate drafts.

First of all, you should free the refrigerator body from all internal contents. We only need the body itself, usually metal. The only thing that should be left is the seal on the door.

When removing the refrigerator insulation, you should be careful, as it will most likely be glass wool. So that your hands do not itch later, you should wear tight clothes and gloves, preferably disposable plastic or rubber ones, stretched over cloth. A respirator or just a scarf tied around the mouth and nose will not be superfluous.

The inner body - "trough" can be used in some way in the future (for example, as a trolley body), although there are a lot of holes in it. And we are left with only a metal cabinet.

We cut a conventional exhaust fan into the niche where the refrigerator compressor used to be. True, in this case, it will work as an injection one. Generally speaking, here I ran into some dilemma. Formally, it is better to use an exhaust fan for drying, which will create a slight vacuum in the drying chamber. The lower the pressure, the faster the drying. But when you install an exhaust fan, you lose the ability to use a fan heater (which dramatically speeds up drying), you would have to put two of them or install a separate air heater.

Therefore, for now, I settled on a blower with a diameter of 125 mm (productivity is about 180 cubic meters of air per hour, 18 W of power). Maybe later, when the "drying season" begins, I will try to switch it to the hood and compare the results. I specially installed the fan off-center, so that later I could install either a second fan, or embed a fan heater (for example, from drying an old washing machine).

In the roof of the refrigerator, I cut a hole for a polypropylene pipe and glued it in with hot glue. It can be extended upwards by installing a pipe 2 meters high or an aluminum corrugation stretched up to 3 meters. At the top, it will be possible to install a Volpert-Grigorovich exhaust deflector and then the draft (and draft) will be achieved by themselves, without a fan. This option will be useful to those who have tight electricity in the country.

By the way, I painted the body of the refrigerator (as long as the spray can last) with matte black paint. Now, when the sun appears, the case heats up significantly and even with the fan turned on, the air temperature (in the outlet pipe) is 5-8 degrees higher than the ambient temperature (I measured it with an electronic thermometer in a remote sensor).

So that the door of the refrigerator - drying was securely fixed, I attached a regular hook to it. Such as is usually used on the doors of utility rooms or wickets. I bent the tip of the hook a little and made a notch on it with a file. Now, when closing on the hook, the drying door is, as it were, additionally attracted to the body, sealed, and fixed in this position. (I did not bother with different magnetic latches or latches.) By the way, this option for solving the problem of closing an old refrigerator (present) can be useful if it lets air under a worn out door seal.

The insides of the dryer are "standard". This is a rack with flat drawers. The bottom of the boxes is mesh, made of fine mesh. I made the shelves for the drawers from a narrow board. I had to make a cutout under the protruding edge of the refrigerator. For the drying process to be effective, the design should be made so that all the air passes exclusively through the bottom. Fastening of shelves - directly to the walls of the refrigerator, with self-tapping screws. Having marked the outside of the wall, I drilled holes in it, through which I fixed the shelves with self-tapping screws with a head in the form of a press washer.

I must say that here I was a little too clever. You just had to close the recess in the door with a sheet of plywood or plastic. Those. make the door just flat so that when closed it would be flush with the front wall of the refrigerator. I decided to make curly shelves so that the drawers almost rest against the door and the air flows through them. At the same time, the volume of the drying cabinet increased by the thickness of the door, and the work - by an extra hour or two ... In addition, there were certain difficulties with opening the door - the seal was clinging to the shelves. I had to file them figuratively. But what's done is done. If someone repeats the design, this should be taken into account.

Tests of the dryer from the refrigerator completely satisfied me. A bunch of green dill wilted for winter storage in less than a day. I even withered some meat (for beer). Meat (beef, cooked-smoked), cut into long strips and rubbed with salt and pepper, wilted to a "rubbery" state in just a few hours. It turned out something like a biltong or sujuk. So it's ready for the mushroom - apple drying season!

So if you also get your hands on a case from an old refrigerator - spend half a day and you will have an excellent dryer for mushrooms, apples, berries, herbs and all kinds of medicinal herbs.

New life of an old refrigerator. How can the body of an old refrigerator be used?

The owners of refrigerators try to get rid of them in two cases: either the unit is morally obsolete and is replaced with a new one, or it is out of order and cannot be repaired. In the first case, "old people" most often migrate to garden houses, garages, where they are used for their intended purpose for a long time. In the second case, a disposal problem arises. However, the first option only postpones the prospect of the second. But zealous owners are trying to take advantage of the "killed" refrigerator. Moreover, it is as easy as shelling pears to do it.

So, let's look at the most trivial ways to use the "old" unit.

Let us remind you that the body of the refrigerator is made of high quality sheet metal. If you are a motorist, or just a lover of tinkering, cut this metal. It will come in handy for bodywork and other works. You can make a lot of useful things from sheet metal for a summer residence.

The insides of the refrigerator contain a lot of useful things. If the refrigerator is working, then its main unit, the compressor, will still serve. It develops a small pressure, a maximum of 1.5 atmospheres. But this is enough for the operation of a spray gun, airbrush and other small pneumatic tools. You can make a pond aerator, a tire inflator, etc. It can be equipped with a receiver from a car camera.

A radiator made of a thin copper tube will also not disappear in the hands of a craftsman. There are several meters of it. Copper is excellently soldered. Various nozzles, water and gas connections, an instantaneous water heater or heat exchanger - these are the simplest applications of the tube.

The interior of the refrigerator is an excellent blank for shelves and "cash desk" for storing small tools. Sometimes it is enough to carefully cut all this and fix it on the wall of a workshop or utility block.

Another easy way to use an old unit is as a locker. What to store in it depends on your needs. Children's toys, cosmetics, tools, wood for the fireplace, etc. The only thing you have to worry about is the design of the cabinet. Your imagination will help you here. Make the "locker" an integral part of the interior. At the same time, the interior of the refrigerator can be left as it is, or removed and re-equipped there at your own discretion.

If the body of the refrigerator is placed horizontally with the door upwards, you get an excellent container - a chest. It can be used for storing garbage, preparing compost, as a flower bed, supply of dry firewood, etc. Beekeepers can adapt it for storing beehive frames with foundation. The inner size of the refrigerator body is ideally matched to the size of the frame. In addition, the problem of protecting wax from rodents and moths is immediately solved. The refrigerator closes almost hermetically due to the seal on the door.

The refrigerator door and part of the body make an excellent door for a cellar or a well. It is necessary to cut off the front part of the body at the right distance with a grinder to get a semblance of a door frame. The remains of the body serve as an anchor part, which is concreted or fixed in the wall. True, for such an application, a sufficiently high refrigerator is required, and they are all two-chamber. But it doesn't matter - we connect both doors with a cover plate and self-tapping screws and they become one, open together.

From the refrigerator - case

The body of the refrigerator has good thermal insulation, which allows it to be used as an isothermal case. Gas cylinders and a pumping station can be placed in it to protect them from the cold. If you remove the guts and drill the vents, you will get a wonderful "metal box" for large gas cylinders.

The same property (good thermal insulation) will make it possible to arrange a "cellar on the balcony" from the refrigerator. Even in cold weather, potatoes and other vegetables can be stored there. As a heater, it will be enough to place there a 40-60 W electric light bulb placed in a tin can.

The owners of autonomous electric generators are aware of their most important drawback - a high noise level. Place the unit in the refrigerator body. Thermal insulation will become soundproofing. Remember to make some air holes and run the exhaust pipe out. Or cut out a hole on the side and pick it up with a fine mesh.

The body of a small refrigerator can be used to install an electric or gas meter outside the home. You can install the refrigerator body on the head of the water well. In the refrigerator, you can arrange a mini-household block and store garden tools there. Large - directly in the body. And for small ones - make holders on the door.

From the fridge - smokehouse

You will need a stove-stove and a refrigerator case. All "insides" should be removed from the refrigerator. We install the potbelly stove inside the case. The greatest difficulty is the pipe outlet. Draw a circle on the top panel of the case, slightly less than the pipe in diameter. Then, along the contour, make more holes with a drill with a diameter of 4-5 mm. Then we start up the file.

In the upper part of the box, at a distance of 20 cm, we install two corners, on them - a grid shelf for smoked products. We use the shelf from the same refrigerator. We install two more corners 10 cm below, on which we install a pan for collecting fat, which will drip from the products. Next to the shelf for products, we install a bimetallic thermometer from the gas stove with an indicator outward.

This smokehouse has many advantages. You can drown it with anything - all the same, the smoke flies into the chimney. The smoke for smoking is obtained from what lies on top of the stove and smolders. Using the oven allows you to get different modes of smoking. The disadvantage is the small volume. However, it is enough for personal needs.

However, it is not necessary to install the oven directly into the refrigerator. If its bottom is flat (and it is most likely flat), it is enough to install the refrigerator itself on a stove - a potbelly stove (also with a flat top or no top at all). Or make a stove from an old barrel, punching holes in it for air to enter the combustion zone and smoke out. Then the sawdust on the bottom of the refrigerator will smolder perfectly.

Can be installed in the refrigerator and electric heating element ("air", for example, for the oven). It becomes red hot, and this temperature is quite enough for sawdust and shavings to smolder. By the way, the electric heating element will make it possible to obtain not only hot, but also semi-hot and cold-smoked products. The sawdust smolders, but the temperature in the refrigerator remains low. The heating element can be equipped with an inclusion regulator, which will automatically maintain the desired temperature.

From the refrigerator - dryer

A similar scheme can be used to make a dryer for fruits, berries and mushrooms. In the lower part we install a heater - either electric or the same potbelly stove. It is advisable to install a fan as well. Shelves can be made from plywood or wire mesh. In the roof of the refrigerator or in the side wall (so that rainwater does not get inside) we make an outlet 100 x 100 mm and close it with a fine mesh so that flies do not fly in. This dryer will dry one bucket of apples a day. Or any other fruit.

As you can see, an old refrigerator is a very valuable thing in a summer cottage. If you or your friends have one of these gathering dust on the balcony or standing idle in the country, use our advice. You will not regret!

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Pumping water from under the refrigerator by the compressor

A little introduction.

The other day I was fixing the old water supply system in the house. It was necessary to slightly bend the vertical pipe going from the ground to the house. To heat it up to a suitable temperature, it was necessary to drain all the water from it. Since when installing a water supply system in the house, the water from the system was not provided, then for this it was necessary to turn off the tap in one shaft (common), then untwist the connections in another (mine) and thus drain the water. I had no desire to break the connections that had not been touched for a couple of decades and were reliably overgrown with rust and everything possible. It was necessary to come up with an alternative option that would not involve any destruction. And so the idea was born to make a small pump. Now directly about the design.

It took me about 10 minutes to assemble the system. It is absolutely not difficult at all. The whole structure can be easily understood by looking at the drawing.

But, that would be quite clear - I will explain. The most important part of the system is, of course, the compressor from under the old refrigerator. I have been using it for a long time to pump up the wheels of a car. In this case, no re-equipment of the compressor itself is required (it is enough to install a standard start-up relay). On the compressor itself, there are, as a rule, three pipes: one filling (it is sealed), one delivery and one suction. It is precisely the latter that will come in handy for us.

Next, we take any glass bottle (I used from under the champagne), in the cork we make two holes for the pipes. Any tubes can be used too, the main thing is that their diameter would allow both tubes to be inserted into the cork. It is advisable to seal the place where the tubes enter the cork with some kind of sealant, or at least ordinary plasticine. The bottle can be replaced with any vessel that can be hermetically closed, but it is better to use vessels that cannot be deformed, otherwise the vessel will flatten under the influence of atmospheric pressure when the air is pumped out. Then, using a hose, we connect one tube to the suction outlet of the compressor, and put on a long hose on the other, the other end of which is lowered into a tank with water.

That's it, the homemade pump is ready!

One feature is that the bottom edge of the tube from the compressor is best placed a few centimeters above the bottom edge of the tube from the reservoir. This is necessary so that the water flowing into the bottle is not accidentally sucked into the compressor by the suction tube. This, of course, is unlikely, since the capacity of such a compressor is small, but still, it is better to play it safe.

The performance of such a pump is rather weak and, of course, is not suitable for serious purposes. But for small amounts of liquid, it fully justifies itself, especially since the costs for it are scanty. It pumps water slowly but steadily. The main thing is not to forget to empty the tank in time so that water does not get into the compressor.

In my case, I pumped water out of the pipe in half a minute. An almost full bottle leaked.

This system can be improved by using a more capacious vessel instead of a bottle (in this case, you will have to wait longer for the required vacuum until the water is pumped out). Better yet, make an automatic drain of water, so as not to empty the vessel manually. But this is a completely different topic. The purpose of this article was to tell you about a small pump made from scrap materials in 10 minutes. And it has been achieved. Good luck to you!

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How to make a smokehouse from an old refrigerator.

How to make a smokehouse from an old refrigerator .

An old refrigerator "Oka" or some other, having honestly served for almost twelve years, ordered to live a long time. Its body is large, solid - it is a pity to throw it away, you can give it a second life.

Carefully remove all unnecessary bells and whistles, leave only a metal box with a door. After removing the inner chamber with thermal insulation, it turns out that the welded seams inside the case are smeared with some kind of brown sealant, which takes a good two hours to scrape off. On the back side, where the heat exchanger was, a decent hole is formed. It is necessary to close it up with a metal plate cut from the dismantled parts.

A stove-stove, welded from a cut of a water pipe-four hundred, and has not been used for its intended purpose for a long time, fits very well into the prepared refrigerator case.

With the outlet for the pipe, you have to tinker a little. First, draw a circle with a compass, with a diameter slightly less than the diameter of the pipe. Then drill holes around the entire perimeter of the circle with a five drill. And bring it to the desired size with a semicircular file or in some other way, as you like.

In about twenty centimeters from the top of the box, install two corners - holders for the net-shelf, where the smoked products will be located. Ten centimeters lower, fix two more corners for the pan, where the fat will drip. The shelf can be used from the same refrigerator, and the tray from the oven from the old gas two-burner stove. Take another thermometer with a bimetallic spiral plate from the plate. To measure the temperature in the immediate vicinity of the product. Drill a hole of the required size on the side wall and fix the thermometer with the indicator outward.

An ordinary hook can be used to fix the door.

When the whole structure is ready, it is necessary to properly bake the chamber to eliminate extraneous odors. To heat the stove for three hours, constantly throwing up firewood, with the door slightly open. The enamel on the refrigerator body will turn yellow in some places, but will remain in place And after that, carry out tests in different modes in conditions close to the working ones, measure the duration of firewood burning, temperature, smoke of different types of wood, work out the technology, so to speak.

The main advantage of the described unit, perhaps, is that a minimum amount of material is used for smoking to create smoke. After all, smoke is obtained only from what lies on the stove and smolders, and you can heat the stove itself with anything (it will fly into the chimney) to maintain the temperature regime.

But the disadvantage is that there is not enough space for placing products. However, if you smoke only meat and lard, and only for yourself, then it is quite enough!

There are many uses for old washing machines and refrigerators, both practical and decorative.

Ideas for Recycling Old Home Appliances

Everything ever breaks down. Washing machines and refrigerators are no exception. If your equipment has already become completely unusable and cannot be repaired, do not rush to throw it into a landfill. There are many uses for old washing machines and refrigerators, both practical and decorative.

A flower pot from the drum of an old washing machine. Quite nice and roomy, it is not afraid of moisture, it will last a long time, because metal is a very reliable material. You can paint such a flowerpot in any color.

The whole washing machine became a flower bed, even a container for powder and rinse aid was used. Of course, such a piece of household appliances, surrounded by greenery, looks strange, but in general, a very interesting option, an original element of landscape design.

The most popular way to use an old drum from a washing machine is a brazier. You can cook on wood and charcoal not only kebabs, both a saucepan and a frying pan will conveniently stand on top. At the same time, it is very simple to make such a grill.

This is an improved version of a barbecue from a washing drum, on a tripod. By the way, the design turns out to be quite light, it is not difficult to transfer around the site. As an option, it was possible to equip a stationary place for a street hearth, equipping a convenient platform around the drum.

And who can say that this is ugly - the reflections of the flame in the holes of the shiny metal. Such a barbecue does not look like an old and useless thing at all, but an actual and practical element of a personal plot.

From a very old washing machine, or rather, its rounded metal case, you can make a smokehouse for fish and meat products.

This is how the drum of a washing machine can look elegant, on which a designer or owner of a house with a rich imagination has worked. By the way, in the empty case of such a curbstone-seat with a soft cushion, it is quite possible to store all sorts of little things.

And again a flower bed in a whole washing machine. Beautiful bright petunias smoothed out the brutality of the unsightly metal body of the equipment, which obviously served for many years until it turned into a flower bed.

A cabinet in an old refrigerator. The body was painted, there are not many shelves, but they are quite roomy, and various little things fit in the former freezer.

Even if the refrigerator itself refused to freeze, this cannot prevent using it to cool drinks during an outdoor party. Simple wood planking looks quite attractive, and the ice under the now hinged lid will last long enough.

Incubator in an old refrigerator building. It will retain heat, especially if it is additionally insulated, you only need lamps to heat the eggs and a thermometer to control the temperature. A good option for those who want to start breeding chickens.

House for puppies. It turned out to be a separate sleeping place and a dining room. For a larger dog as a berth, a refrigerator body would also fit, you just need to remove the shelves.

Chest for potatoes and other vegetables. If there is no cellar, a good storage place. A refrigerator dug into the ground will be weakly heated and cooled, it is less likely that the potatoes will sprout or, conversely, freeze. published