The beer fridge made the trip to Arkansas intact. I recently got some 3-gallon cornelius kegs, so I've adjusted and moved my shelving to make room for them. With my current setup, I should be able to fit two 5-gallon kegs and two 3-gallon kegs or four 3-gallon kegs into the kegerator.

The CO2 tank is still on the right side of the fridge. I keep it outside so I have more room in the fridge and better flow out of the warmer tank.

Originally I had the kegs on the left side of the fridge like so:

But this proved to be problematic because I was always reaching across the kegs to get a bottle. I've since moved the shelving to the left side and raised it to accomodate the 3-gallon cornys. I can fit two cornys underneath the shelving, provided that the QDs aren't too tall. The space on top of the shelf is tight, but I've got room in my door and on the bottom of the shelf for larger bottles.

With all the new kegs for the fridge I needed to split my CO2 line into four valve-controlled lines. I bought some splitters and valves and now have this giant metal spider in my fridge.

The nice thing is that I can have a different pressure for each pair of valves and I can now cut off pressure to lines I'm not using.

Oh, I didn't have any water lines in the bedroom for my icemaker and the "regular" fridge in the apartment doesn't have an icemaker. We got really sick of ice cube trays, so I cleaned a keg, filled it with water, put about 50lbs of CO2 pressure in it, and attached it to the icemaker inlet on the kegerator. Now I have a working icemaker again.

I still don't have faucets on the outside of the fridge. They still cost too much for me right now, so I'll stick with picnic faucets. All in all this kegerator (not counting the fridge itself) cost me about $50. Not too bad for 8 kegs, disconnects, CO2 tank, valves, regulators, and the like.

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