27/04/2020
This is my little bar fridge.
This one was a little more "pliable" than the larger fridges I have worked on. First thing I did was pull the entire fridge apart - every piece came out or off it. The refrigeration system came out as one piece so no work had to be done on it.
Once stripped down completely, as usual, I stripped the body and panels back to bare metal, sent the inner body and shelves off to the powder coater and got them coated in a nice silver colour.
I rust treated then primed her with 3 coats of grey primer. Then I sprayed the whole outside (and underneath which is a big void) in Coarse Flake Metallic Silver. Once Dry I masked off the two stripes and painted (for the first time in my life) the rest of the fridge in a light blue candy.
As I had never painted candy before (and I had it custom mixed) I wasn't sure how dark to make the paint. It turns out it was a lot lighter than i expected - I had to do 7 coats to get the colour you can see. Because of the sheer depth of paint, I gave it about 4 days to dry, then clear coated the lot with 2 coats of 2 pac clear.
I painted the door card and shelves and a couple of other panels inside in a metallic Silver and started the reassembly process.
After reassembling it all, I found the thermostat had pooped the bed and decided to throw a digital controller on it.
I put some new feet on and finished it off with a newly re-chromed door handle.
She runs quite well - every couple of months I have to gently shake it up to keep the gas mixture together otherwise the temperature just climbs.
