New life for an old refrigerator. How can you use the body of an old refrigerator.

The owners of refrigerators try to get rid of them in two cases: either the unit is obsolete and is replaced with a new one, or it is out of order and cannot be repaired. In the first case, the "old men" most often migrate to garden houses, garages, where they are used for their intended purpose for a long time. In the second case, the problem of disposal arises. However, the first option only delays the prospect of the second. But zealous owners are trying to benefit from the "killed" refrigerator. What's more, it's easier to do so.

So, consider the most trivial ways to use the "old" unit.

Recall that the body of the refrigerator is made of high quality sheet metal. If you are a motorist, or just a tinkerer, cut off this metal. It will come in handy for bodywork and other work. From sheet metal, you can make a lot of useful things for a summer residence.

The inside of the refrigerator contains a lot of useful things. If the refrigerator is working, then its main unit - the compressor, will still serve. The pressure it develops is not large, 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 inflation compressor, 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 perfectly soldered. Various branch pipes, water and gas connections, instantaneous water heater or heat exchanger - these are the simplest applications of the tube.

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

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

If the body of the refrigerator is placed horizontally with the door up, you get an excellent container - a chest. It can be used for garbage storage, composting, as a flower bed, a store of dry firewood, etc. Beekeepers can adapt it to store honeycomb hive frames. The internal size of the refrigerator body perfectly matches 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.

From the door of the refrigerator and part of the body, you get an excellent door for a cellar or a well. It is necessary to cut off the front of the case with a grinder at the right distance in order 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 an overlay 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. You can put gas cylinders, a pumping station in it to protect them from the cold. If you remove the insides and drill ventilation holes, you will get a wonderful "metal box" for large gas cylinders.

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

Owners of autonomous power generators are aware of their most important drawback - a high level of noise. Place the unit in the refrigerator case. Thermal insulation will become soundproofing. Don't forget to make some holes for air supply and take out the exhaust pipe. Or cut a hole on the side and pick it up with a fine mesh.

The case 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 a water well. In the refrigerator, you can arrange a mini-hozblok and store garden tools there. Large - directly in the case. And for small ones - make holders on the door.

From the refrigerator - smokehouse

You will need a potbelly stove and a refrigerator case. Remove all "innards" from the refrigerator. We install the potbelly stove inside the case. The greatest difficulty is the output of the pipe. Draw a circle on the top panel of the case, with a diameter slightly smaller than the pipe. Then make more holes along the contour with a drill with a diameter of 4-5 mm. Next, let's start 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. 10 cm below, we install two more corners, on which we install a tray to collect fat, which will drip from the products. Next to the food shelf, we install a bimetallic thermometer from the gas stove with the indicator facing out.

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

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 the stove - 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 to escape. Then the sawdust at the bottom of the refrigerator will smolder perfectly.

You can also install an electric heating element (“air”, for example, for an oven) in the refrigerator. It heats up to red, and this temperature is quite enough for smoldering sawdust and shavings. By the way, an electric heating element will allow you to get products not only hot, but also semi-hot and cold smoked. The sawdust smolders, but the temperature in the refrigerator remains low. The heating element can be equipped with a switch-on regulator that will automatically maintain the desired temperature.

From fridge to dryer

According to a similar scheme, you can 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 metal 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 the flies do not fly in. Such a dryer will dry a 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 gathering dust on the balcony or standing idle in the country - use our advice. You will not regret!

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Pumping water with a compressor from under the refrigerator

A little intro.

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

It took me about 10 minutes to assemble the system. It presents absolutely no difficulty. The whole construction can be easily understood by looking at the drawing.

But just to be clear, let me explain. The most important part of the system is, of course, the compressor from under the old refrigerator. I've been using it to inflate car tires for a long time. 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, as a rule, there are three tubes: one filling (it is sealed), one discharge and one suction. This is the last one that we need.

Next, we take any glass bottle (I used from champagne), in the cork we make two holes for the tubes. You can also use any tubes, the main thing is that their diameter allows you to stick both tubes into the cork. It is desirable 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 by any vessel that can be hermetically sealed, but it is better to use vessels that are not amenable to deformation, otherwise, under the action of atmospheric pressure, the vessel will be flattened when air is pumped out. Next, with the help of a hose, we connect one tube to the suction outlet of the compressor, and on the other we put a long hose, the other end of which is lowered into a tank of water.

Everything, a homemade pump is ready!

One feature - the lower edge of the tube coming from the compressor, it is better to place a few centimeters above the lower edge of the tube coming from the tank. This is necessary so that the water flowing into the bottle is not accidentally sucked into the compressor by the retractor tube. This, of course, is unlikely, since the power 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, it is not suitable for serious purposes. But for small amounts of liquid, it justifies itself, especially since the cost of it is scanty. Water pumps 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. Almost a full bottle leaked.

This system can be improved by using a more capacious vessel instead of a bottle (in this case, it will take longer to wait for the necessary vacuum until the water is pumped out). And even better, 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 talk about a small pump from improvised 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 .

The old Oka refrigerator, or some other, having honestly served for almost eleven years, ordered to live long. His body is large, solid - it's a pity to throw it away, you can give it a second life.

Carefully remove all unnecessary bells and whistles, leaving only a metal box with a door. After removing the inner chamber with thermal insulation, it turns out that the welds 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 up with a metal plate cut from the dismantled parts.

The potbelly stove, welded from a piece of a 400-meter water pipe, and not used for its intended purpose for a long time, fit 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 smaller than the diameter of the pipe. Then drill holes around the entire perimeter of the circle with a five-bit drill. And bring it to the desired size with a semicircular file or in some other way, as you like.

About twenty centimeters from the top of the box, install two corners - holders for the grid-shelf, where the smoked products will be located. Ten centimeters lower, fix two more corners for the pallet, where the fat will drip. The shelf can be used from the same refrigerator, and the tray from the oven of the old gas two-burner stove. From the stove, take another thermometer with a bimetallic spiral 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 facing out.

To fix the door, you can use an ordinary hook.

When the whole structure is ready, it is necessary to properly ignite the chamber to eliminate odors. To heat the stove for three hours, constantly throwing up firewood, with the door slightly open. The enamel on the refrigerator case will turn a little yellow in places, but will remain in place.

The main advantage of the described unit, perhaps, is that for smoking there is a minimum amount of material 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 out into the chimney) to maintain the temperature regime.

Well, 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’s quite enough!

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

Drying (dryer) for mushrooms, fruits, berries, herbs, herbs from an old refrigerator. How to dry.

From the author A few years ago I made myself a crop, 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 I got into the hands of an old refrigerator. And I decided to make a forced-ventilation drying cabinet out of it, which will make the drying and drying process very fast, efficient and safe (in terms of getting rid of flies and wasps that strive to visit processed products). They are known to be intolerant of drafts.

First of all, you should free the refrigerator case 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 polyethylene or rubber, stretched over cloth. A respirator or just a scarf tied over your mouth and nose will not be superfluous.

The inner case - the “trough” may be used somehow in the future (for example, as a trolley case), although there are a lot of holes in it. And we are left with only a metal locker.

In the niche where the refrigerator compressor used to be, we cut an ordinary exhaust fan. True, in this case it will work as an injection. Generally speaking, here I am faced with a 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 installing an exhaust fan, the ability to use a fan heater is lost (which dramatically speeds up drying), you would have to install two of them or install a separate air heater.

So for the time being I settled on a 125 mm blower fan (capacity approx. 180 cubic meters of air per hour, 18 watts of power). Maybe later, when the "drying season" begins, I'll try to rearrange it to the hood and compare the results. I specially installed the fan not in the 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 with hot glue. It can be built up 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 on their own, without a fan. This option will be useful for those who have tight electricity in the country.

By the way, I painted the body of the refrigerator (as long as the can was enough) with black matte paint. Now, when the sun appears, the case heats up noticeably, 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 is securely fixed, I attached a regular hook to it. Such as is usually used on the doors of utility rooms or gates. I bent the tip of the hook a little and made a notch on it with a needle file. Now, when closing on the hook, the drying door, as it were, is additionally attracted to the body, being sealed, and fixed in this position. (I did not fool around with different magnetic latches or latches.). By the way, this solution to the problem of closing an old (real) refrigerator can be useful if it lets air through under a worn door seal.

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

I have to say that I got a little carried away here. It was just necessary to close the recess in the door with a sheet of plywood or plastic. Those. make the door just flat so that when it closes it is flush with the front wall of the refrigerator. I decided to make curly shelves so that the boxes would almost rest against the door and the air would go 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 figuratively file them. But what's done is done. If anyone repeats the design, this should be taken into account.

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

So if you come across a case from an old refrigerator, spend half a day and you will have a great dryer for mushrooms, apples, berries, herbs and all kinds of medicinal herbs.

Each owner sooner or later begins to think about what can be done from an old refrigerator, because there are two ways for all old things: to faithfully serve for their intended purpose or to undergo a major rebranding. What can you think of to give an old unnecessary refrigerator a second life?

When it comes time to get rid of unnecessary things in the house, for many the question becomes relevant as to what an old refrigerator that has stopped freezing can do. You can send it to the garage, lower it into the cellar, put it “on the shoulder blades” with the door up, and please - a spacious chest for potatoes is ready. If desired, you can use the regular shelves of the refrigerator as a partition separating seed potatoes from stocks for the autumn-winter season. Expert summer residents are not limited to one potato: the refrigerator-casket has proven itself well as a storage for carrots and other vegetables. You can sprinkle the crop with sand, and no colds with frosts are terrible for the vitamin content.

Beehive or dollhouse

For beekeepers, an old refrigerator can also be quite useful. A small freezer can be converted into a real hive. Enthusiasts set up bee dormitories on their plots, not forgetting to paint the refrigerator cases in their signature yellow and black colors. Moreover, experts in beekeeping have long noticed that the internal dimensions of a classic Soviet refrigerator are ideal for storing beehive frames.

A dacha in the summer is not only beds, flower beds and a vegetable garden, but also a long-awaited vacation. There is expanse for the kids outside the city: delicious delicacies literally from the bush, the sun, fresh air, a river or a lake ... And in the evening you can tinker with toys brought from home. In this sense, it’s easier for boys: any garden is a ready-made sandbox in itself, know for yourself the tunnels for swarm cars. But the beautiful half of the younger generation should be taken special care of. You can turn a faulty, but solid-looking refrigerator into a doll house, and there will be no limit to the happiness of daughters or granddaughters. Convenient "rails" that allow you to plan the necessary number of floors for the beautiful princess in the future palace, separated by shelves, will be very useful. But it must be remembered: as in any fairy tale, dolls of all the country girlfriends of a young beauty will often visit the palace, so you need to stock up on supplies for tea drinking.

An extreme way to use an old refrigerator

What to do if in the basement of the garage or in the cellar, everything is already arranged in terms of storing crops, you are allergic to bees, and of the children in the family there are only tomboys? Is it really necessary to say goodbye to the refrigerator that has worked out and take it closer to the trash cans? In no case! There are many more interesting ways to use this thing already unnecessary in the house. For example, you can think of winter fun: in Russia and throughout the rest of the world, amateur descents from snow slides in the strangest vehicles are becoming more widespread. Either they descend on a shovel, or on makeshift benches. What's wrong with a refrigerator? If you are enthusiastic, with a couple of brushes and cans of paint on hand, you can organize your own Olympic bobsleigh competition. Or competitions, who will go down to the foot of the slope faster: dad sitting in the refrigerator, or grandfather riding on a plastic bag stuffed with snow.

Practical way and other options

Or you can not take the refrigerator out to the balcony or loggia at all, not take it out to the garage or to the cottage. Deprived of all external parts and laid on its side, the box can be used as a multifunctional item, in the image and likeness of the lower shelves in the compartment of passenger cars. This is both a sofa and a roomy chest for various household useful things: from tools from the arsenal of the head of the family to children's toys or kitchen utensils not for every day. You can put a waffle iron with a meat grinder inside, bags of sugar, cereals and flour, and you don’t have to find a place in the drawers with dishes. Depending on the height of the refrigerator, it can be used either as a stool or as a TV stand. If the device no longer freezes, this is not a reason to throw it out in the cold.

Of course, our people are not ingenious, and all of the above is only a small part of the possible ideas for using an old refrigerator, since you cannot cover the entire flight of fantasy of folk inventors-rationalizers.

For example, no one forbids putting a refrigerator case freed from everything superfluous on a wheelbase from a leaky wheelbarrow and getting a roomy vehicle for transporting earth, fertilizers or construction debris.

Some craftsmen turn old refrigerators into dryers for vegetables, fruits and mushrooms. And someone makes smokehouses or barbecue grills from their outdated buildings.

How to deal with a broken refrigerator or freezer? Old household appliances, due to their size, are difficult to store at home, but they cannot be thrown into the trash, as they contain chemicals that are quite harmful to the environment. If the refrigerator is simply thrown into a landfill, then you can get a pretty decent fine for it.

In the new millennium, the "era of retooling" has come. According to experts, residents of the capital during the year change about 100 thousand washing machines, 300 thousand televisions and about 160 thousand refrigerators. Where to put all this equipment? And there is only one answer - to dispose of.

Today, there are many companies involved in the disposal of old household appliances. Recycling is a fairly profitable business, because almost all elements of refrigerators and televisions are recyclable. The design of these units includes plastic, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, glass, etc. A certain processing technology is applied to each type of material, after which they can be reused.

The most important stage of recycling is the extraction and neutralization of hazardous chemicals present in the design of refrigerators and other appliances. The recycling process allows you to maximize the preservation of the country's natural resources. All refined metal goes to the State Fund, which provides for the production, socio-cultural and financial needs of the population. Therefore, the organized disposal of old household equipment has a direct impact on the well-being of citizens. This is their decent pension, and free education, and good roads.

Many trading companies use an excellent marketing ploy: the user rents out his old refrigerator, computer or phone, in return he can purchase a similar product at a reduced price. The disposal of old equipment, organized in this way, promises benefits to each participant in the transaction, that is, the seller, the buyer and the recycling company, which is a very important link in the event.

The seller makes a profit due to sales growth, which fully justifies the discounts provided and the cost of shipping old equipment to the recycling company. The buyer gets the opportunity to get rid of obsolete equipment and profitably purchase a more modern refrigerator or telephone. The recycling company receives both valuable raw materials for processing, as well as working copies that can be sold at a reduced price.

Old household appliances can be sold to repair shops. Of course, no one needs a refrigerator or a TV, released during the existence of the USSR, but more or less modern units can be useful for repairmen. Of course, you won’t be able to get a big reward for them, but some money for a completely unnecessary thing will still be returned.

The second life of the old refrigerator

Before you get rid of the old refrigerator, you can try to find a useful use for it. Skillful hands, a little patience and imagination can give this unit, like many other things, a new life.

An old and broken refrigerator can be used as a spacious chest for storing potatoes and other vegetables on the balcony. To do this, remove the evaporator located on the back wall and lay the refrigerator on this wall, that is, with the door up. Refrigerator shelves can be used as partitions to separate seed potatoes from what is expected to be eaten over the winter. The compartments between the shelves can also be filled with carrots, beets or other vegetables without mixing them in one pile.

Faulty but solid-looking refrigerator, can be turned into a doll house and then there will be no limit to the happiness of daughters and granddaughters. The ledges on the walls of the refrigerator allow you to create the required number of floors for the princesses in the future palace. To divide into floors, the shelves already inside the refrigerator are used, or you can organize additional shelves by cutting them out of plastic, metal, glass and other materials.

And you can still use the refrigerator as a multifunctional item, like the lower shelves in passenger cars. In such a capacious chest, you can store various items, ranging from the working tools of the head of the family to children's toys. In it you can hide a waffle iron with a meat grinder, and bags of cereals, and extra dishes, and shoes. Refrigerator-chest can be decorated in different ways. For example, painting with bright colors or pasting wallpaper, beautiful pictures, wood paneling, etc.

Options for using an old refrigerator in the country

Owners of summer cottages or country houses can adapt a non-working refrigerator for many useful purposes. For example, many beekeepers convert old refrigerators and freezers into bee hives, since it has long been noticed that bee frames are perfectly placed inside these units. To give these hives a more presentable look, they can be painted in the signature yellow and black stripes.

No one also forbids putting the refrigerator body on wheels and getting a fairly roomy vehicle for transporting earth, various garbage or humus. You can also make an excellent incubator from the body of an old refrigerator.. To do this, you only need lamps for heating eggs and a thermometer to control the temperature, and heat is stored in such an incubator due to good insulation of the walls of the case. If desired, it can be further insulated.

Some craftsmen turn an old refrigerator into a dryer for fruits and mushrooms, and someone makes a flower bed out of it. In the latter case, the refrigerator is placed on the back wall, and the lid is removed. The entire interior space is filled with earth and flowers are planted. The space around the refrigerator can be decorated with stones. The refrigerator itself can also be decorated with wooden planks, mats woven from vines or straw, or simply painted in your favorite color.

The flower bed can turn out to be even more spectacular if the refrigerator door is not removed, but fixed in a half-open position. In this case, blue flowers can be planted inside the refrigerator and give the flower bed the appearance of a flowing stream. If you use flowers of golden hues, for example, marigolds, you can get the effect of scattering "treasures".

The refrigerator door can also be locked in a fully open position. Then flowers are planted in the ground inside the refrigerator, and flower pots are located on the door. Unrealistically beautiful compositions can be made from broken flower pots, if their shards are placed on several levels, planting plants on each of which and adding fantastic figurines for decoration.

In addition, from the old refrigerator you can make:

• cellar dehumidifier. To do this, cut two holes in the door or make a sealed cover with two holes. A fan is installed at the inlet (you can use a pull-in cooler from the computer's system unit). The principle of operation of the dehumidifier is as follows: the fan drives the air, and the moisture from it settles in the coldest place;
• firewood storage box, various garbage or compost;
• solar collector p for heating water;
• smokehouse. When making it, it is necessary to remove all the plastic, and install an electric stove inside, on which a container filled with alder shavings is placed. In such a smokehouse, you can smoke meat or fish;
• dryer for mushrooms and fruits. In this case, the shelves are replaced with grids, and a fan heater is installed below;
• dog house. To do this, the refrigerator is placed on a board mounted on bricks, so that the open door serves as a kind of ladder for the dog;
• cage for rabbits. If you replace the doors with bars or just make holes in them into which bars are inserted, you can get excellent cages for rabbits.

Air compressor from an old refrigerator

Often compressor from the refrigerator is made for themselves by airbrush artists or painters who use it in tandem with a spray gun or airbrush. More powerful compressors can be used to inflate tires.

To make a compressor, you must first prepare all the necessary components. As a supercharger, you can use a conventional hand pump or any container for holding air. The role of the device for supplying air to the receiver will be performed by the compressor from the old refrigerator, so it is very important to properly dismantle it. First you need to have a bite to eat tubes that come out of the engine and lead to the grille. Next, we cut the wires that stretch to the relay, but they must be left about 20 cm long.

An excellent replacement for the receiver can be a fire extinguisher case. It is important that it be seamless and have a volume of 10 liters or more. You will also need car clamps, an oxygen reducer, a toggle switch, an RM-5 or RDM-5 relay, a shut-off valve, a fum-tape, a two-wire wire, a ball valve, a ¾-inch water cross with an external thread.

The refrigerator compressor, in addition to the inlet and outlet tubes, also has a third tube with a sealed end. The clogged part of the tube must be cut off with a hacksaw, but it is important to ensure that metal chips do not get inside. The remaining pipe must be flared and the oil in the compressor drained. Instead, it is necessary to fill in semi-synthetic automotive oil. Then the pipe is clogged with a screw wrapped in fum tape.

The plumbing cross is screwed into the fire extinguisher in place of the ZPU. When manufacturing the compressor, it is necessary to wrap all screw connections with sealing tape and additionally apply sealant to them. A relay is screwed onto the upper part of the crosspiece, which performs the function of regulating the pressure in the receiver.

Further, a check valve is installed on one of the inlets of the cross, to which a fitting is attached to connect the hose. With the help of a check valve, excess air pressure in the receiver will be eliminated when painting a car. An oxygen reducer with a shut-off valve is screwed onto another crosspiece inlet, which is necessary to shut off the air in case the pneumatic tool is replaced. To be able to connect the spray gun or gun to the tap, screw the adapter. Thanks to the reducer, there are no pressure surges in the supercharger, and the air flow is dense and uniform.

Finally, filters should be installed. A gasoline filter is installed in front of the air intake pipe, the main task of which is to protect the engine from dust, and the spray gun from oil and moisture. A diesel filter is attached to the outlet of the supercharger to keep water droplets out.

Heat pump from an old fridge

Any person theoretically has a fairly large selection of sources of thermal energy. In addition to coal, firewood, natural gas and electricity, it is also the sun, wind, temperature difference between air and earth, water and earth. Each energy source has its pros and cons that limit its use.

A heating system with a heat pump is very advantageous in terms of ease of use. Such a system is energy dependent, but The heat pump requires a minimum amount of electricity to operate.. Heat pumps are extremely economical in operation and do not require high maintenance costs, but the cost of pumps offered by manufacturers is quite high and not every home owner can afford it. If you assemble it yourself, using parts from an old refrigerator, you can save a lot on the family budget.

Homemade pumps literally cost a penny, but they have one drawback: the performance of homemade products is low, so they cannot become a full replacement for traditional heating systems. They are usually used as complementary or alternative heating options. But the heat pump can be installed anywhere. It is connected to the contours of underfloor heating, used in hot water systems. The main thing is to correctly select the type of system.

There are absorption and compressor heat pumps. Installations of the latter type are the most common. Exactly such a pump can be assembled from an old refrigerator. To do this, you will need a refrigerator compressor, evaporator, expander and condenser.

First of all, you need to remove the compressor from the refrigerator. It is the main structural element and will pump freon and water through the laid pipeline, ensuring efficient heating. The power of the installation is quite difficult to calculate, so you should focus on averages. For example, for a house with high thermal efficiency, a heating system with a capacity of 25 W / m 2 is required. For a well-insulated building, this figure is 45 W / m 2, and for a house with large heat losses - 70 W / m 2.

The compressor is mounted on the wall using L-shaped brackets. The condenser is made from a metal tank with a volume of 120 liters. To do this, the tank is cut in half. A copper coil is placed in one part of it, and then the container is welded and threaded holes are made in it. A 120-liter steel tank is also used for the heat exchanger. The thickness of its walls should be at least 2.5 mm. A copper pipe is wound around the tank, the ends of which are fixed with rails. Plumbing transitions are connected to the pipe outlets.

A plastic tank with a volume of 90 liters is used as an evaporator. The evaporator does not heat up, so it makes no sense to use a metal container for it. The evaporator is also attached to the wall using brackets. After installing the main components, a suitable thermostatic valve is selected and the structure is assembled. At the final stage, freon R-22 or R-422 is pumped into the system. In the absence of relevant skills, a specialist should be invited, since the procedure is unsafe.

Next, the heat pump is connected to the intake device. The type of this device, as well as the features of connecting the pump to it, depend on the scheme of the system used. For the "water-ground" scheme, the collector is located below the freezing level of the soil, as are the pipes of this system. When using the "water-air" scheme, the installation of the system is relatively simple, since it does not require excavation. To install the collector, you can use any convenient place on the roof or near the house. The design of the collector for the "water-water" system is assembled from polymer pipes, which are then lowered into the reservoir.

It is also possible to install a combined (bivalent) heating system. In this case the heat pump is connected in parallel with the electric boiler and it performs the function of additional heating. The use of a bivalent heating system allows you to achieve the optimal temperature in the house, even in very severe frost. The energy consumption will be minimal.

conclusions

As we see, You can make a lot of useful things from an old refrigerator that will serve you faithfully for many years to come. Converted old units can significantly facilitate housework or become a spectacular decoration of a summer cottage. It all depends on your imagination and ability to use the necessary tools.

Before you get rid of a broken refrigerator, try to find a useful use for it. Do you need new furniture, a comfortable pantry or a small cellar in the country? This and more can be done from a broken refrigerator.

Ordinary household waste such as paper, cans, glass and metals can be easily taken to a collection point for recycling. But what about large bulky items? For example, with a broken refrigerator.

Refrigerators are expensive, but, like any equipment, they eventually become unusable - they break down, and it is no longer possible to repair them. If you can't turn it in and don't want it to end up in a landfill, try one of these 6 ways.

What can be done from a non-working refrigerator:

1. Sofa from an old refrigerator

Designer Adrian Johnson used an olive green refrigerator and red leather seat from BMW. This is how one of the first such works turned out - Fridgecouch (sofa-refrigerator). The sofa is very comfortable, has a small table-shelf on the side and fits well into the interior of the room.

2. Pantry for food storage

Remove the door from the old refrigerator and arrange the internal shelves as convenient. The pantry is ready. From the outside, it can be covered with a film, which will give your new pantry a unique and cute look.

3. Temporary home for a stray dog

An old fridge can easily be turned into a dog house with space for rest, food and water. The door of the refrigerator will come in handy as a ramp.

4. Storage box for food and drinks in the yard

Remove the compressor, evaporator, condenser fan, shelves and drawers, and any unnecessary refrigerator items. Outside, the refrigerator can be sheathed with wood or other convenient material. This will make a handy box for storing food.

5. Armchair and ottoman

In addition to the sofa, a stylish chair and ottoman can be made from a broken refrigerator. In the photo below, the chair is made from an Israeli refrigerator from the 50s.

6. Cellar

From the old refrigerator you can make a cellar for storing vegetables and fruits. Learn more about how to do this in the video:

You can always think of other ways to give a second life to your old refrigerator. And if all else fails, then on the Internet you can find a company that buys old trash, and this will save you from having to take it to the landfill yourself.