My $20 fridge slide

Capella_Ben · Post by **Capella_Ben** » October 31st, 2011, 8:53 pm

Hi all,

In preparation for my Cape York trip I am making a fridge slide. In my typical style I mostly used bits and pieces I have around the shed. I had to buy a couple of things like the ply-wood and some small bolts. All up it has cost me about $20 so far.

There is a little more polishing to be done yet as well as a tie-down system for the fridge itself. But I just found some straps that may work well for the tie downs.

dipmaker · Post by **dipmaker** » November 1st, 2011, 5:53 pm

Looking good Ben, where did you score the slides from? as for tie downs all I did was use some flat steel bent at 90 and screwed into the ply and took the handles off the fridge and screwed them back on over the top of the flat steel, and believe it or not nothing moves even under fairly extreme conditions.

maverick01 · Post by **maverick01** » November 1st, 2011, 6:37 pm

Looks great Ben and will have to try it out at Janowen

Capella_Ben · Post by **Capella_Ben** » November 1st, 2011, 6:40 pm

The slides are old computer racking slides. We used to have servers that included the computer, disk array and tape drive unit. At the time each setup cost more than my house. We had about 50 of these around the country. The servers weighed up to 120 KG. These slides were designed to allow them to go in and out of the rack.

The fridge slide is, oddly enough, exactly one Compaq rack wide.

maverick01 · Post by **maverick01** » November 1st, 2011, 7:43 pm

Looks great Ben and also do you have any spare slides

Capella_Ben · Post by **Capella_Ben** » November 2nd, 2011, 6:38 pm

Finished! I had to buy the straps so the costs have blown out.

Capella_Ben · Post by **Capella_Ben** » November 2nd, 2011, 6:39 pm

dipmaker wrote:Looking good Ben, where did you score the slides from? as for tie downs all I did was use some flat steel bent at 90 and screwed into the ply and took the handles off the fridge and screwed them back on over the top of the flat steel, and believe it or not nothing moves even under fairly extreme conditions.

Like your idea of the flat steel mounts, but I reckon the bold holes for the handles are too high up.

Capella_Ben · Post by **Capella_Ben** » November 2nd, 2011, 6:40 pm

maverick01 wrote:Looks great Ben and also do you have any spare slides

I'll have to have a look and see. I need a couple of pairs for the draws.

dipmaker · Post by **dipmaker** » November 2nd, 2011, 6:54 pm

I wonder how a bit of 25mm aluminium angle would go screwed to the ply front and back of the fridge to eliminate any initial movement?

maverick01 · Post by **maverick01** » November 2nd, 2011, 7:43 pm

What i would do is put some high density foam under the fridge to allow for some movement because the older fidges never had the motor inside mounted the best and i know with dads that if it wasnt mounted on foam then the motor would occasionally bang against the fridge casing