"Jere Lull" wrote in message
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That's not the reason to go top-loading. It's the door seal, which will
knock your BTU rating way down. Even a drain can significantly increase
your cooling needs.

We'll have two seals - one at the box, and one at the lid, flush hinges and
secure latches - which is about as good as we can do without major
fabrication (we could have gone to three with different shaping of the
blanks for the door and receiver, but didn't want to mess with that, as this
project is only 5 months old already). We think that will be pretty good.

We also have no drains, not only for that reason, but for the complexity of
the installation/fabrication and depth lost under the box needed to
accomplish it. The fabrication is, at this moment, at the smooth glass
interior, ready to prime and then awlgrip after the spillover installation
(may already be finished). The doors' insulation was cut from the installed
6" insulation, freehand, which provided a small irregularity. Sanding to
square removed that and gave room for clearance for the epoxy to go on the
new surfaces (the rest of the foam is already epoxy-encapsulated). Laminate
from the countertops' leftovers (8' length in just a little over 4' needed),
epoxied in place, is the surface of the receiver and baulk on the doors.

Top loading for the freezer, as it's possible without restriction, and side
loading for the reefer, as the configuration of the M46x required a two-part
lid to clear an overhang...

In town only briefly, I'll head back to work for another couple of weeks in
a few days.

L8R

Skip - refitting as fast as I can while attending to emptying thei house,
600 miles apart, and Lydia - moving this weekend into her shoebox cottage
(325SF), and continuing to build the kitty



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