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Help Fridge PC

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XteriorMotive

Limp Gawd
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Yeah Hi I Was planning to build a pc just like a 700mhz p3 geforce 4 256mb ram
10gb hdd into a bar fridge with an lcd monitir in tha door i need some help with how to route tha wires somwhere and how to get tha lcd into tha door oh yeah and also how to stop it from being killed by moisture

any help appriciated thanks
 
you wont have trouble with condensation as long as the fridge is sealed just like it came...its the air that comes in when you open the door that will cause the condensation.

what do you mean routing wires tho? like from the power supply out the back of the fridge? if so i would probaly cut a whole in the inside and route the power cord to where the power cord is for the fridge and just follow it out. fill both wholes with that expanding foam and maybe some closed cell foam the closed cell foam will prevent air from entering. The rest of the cables will all be inside, so there is no reason to worry about routing them since they wont be seen.

The LCD monitor...well, this one is a little trickier...most doors on refrigirators are a box filled with insulation...or thats my best guess atleast...if you want to mount it IN the door...then you will need to cut out an area to recess the monitor in to...you will also have to drill a whole through to the other side for the monitor cables, power and VGA or DVI connection. After recessing it in, i would fill in the gaps around it with closed cell foam. I would also take strips of CSF and put it over the outer edges of the monitor and the door (closing up the gap completely). Then to make it look pretty or w/e you might wanna stick some rubber over that so that it looks like the seal on the inside of the door. Use your imagination with that tho, im not sure how to make a seamless look using this method.

Another possibility to make it look seamless is taking the door off and using bondo ( not sure if i got the name right). Spread it in to the gap (make sure you have some closed cell foam in there) and over the edges of the monitor and door...you will have to sand this once it drys to get a very nice smooth finish, and then repaint....if done right, no one will ever know you cut in to the door. Deffintly a rewarding experience, and extremely cheap to
 
believe or not, you may burn out the fridge with a computer in it. Fridges aren't meant to deal with a constant heat source, only to keep things cool (atleast I hope nothing in your fridge produces heat). You can try it, but the fridge's motors are gonna burnout when they have to remain on all the time.
 
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