Running a fridge as a chiller?

[Phishnoob]

Bleh the site is down. Well there goes my softie budget for the month..I am getting a five foot piece of titanium on order today but won't get it until Monday.

Hopefully the drawn and annealed kind can be bent or I have a hundred dollar nuclear grade soda straw.

Look's like time to see if there is such a thing as a titanium compression to NPT then I can put in a nylon barb.

Nothing is ever easy.

Phishnoob

[RWD]

Here's a nice heat exchanger for you DIY guys:
http://www.umii.net/hx.html
hmmm.....Looks like the site might be down.

[Geoff]

Originally posted by RWD
Here's a nice heat exchanger for you DIY guys:
http://www.umii.net/hx.html
hmmm.....Looks like the site might be down.

i hate when they do not put prices. all i ask is for a ballpark.

the site works you just linked to an old version of it. www.umii.net works fine.

Phish- it is the connection to whatever that i am interested in. post links of compression fittings you find.

G~

[Phishnoob]

Ooops I had the web address wrong for McMaster-Carr. Try this:

http://www.mcmaster.com

If you do a search for titanium fittings it takes you to page 106 and it is all there. Click on the link for compression fittings and you go to page 119. I think that I will try the nylon food safe compression fittings. They have one that comes right out in a male normal pipe thread that I can screw a barb right on to. This way no tapping of the tubing is needed which was the part I was the most worried about.

Also, I tried to get a titanium coil with no luck but got a good tip. The guy at the plumbing supply said to take a big can of tomatoes or something and clamp it up then wrap the tubing around it. The size of the can you use controls the bend radius. this sounds way better than a million 90 degree bends making rectangles and will prevent a kink.

I will have this thing together with the titanium tubing and the nylon compression fittings probably next Thursday or so and post pics good or bad. Once the coil ends in barbs and is watertight then everything is downhill from there.

Phishnoob