To recap: initially I was going to buy an Adler-Barbour Cold Machine, hook everything up, and be done with it. After talking to Marcus, I decided to order all the parts from Rparts.com and build my own.
I ordered the 1M kit, which uses an air-cooled condenser and the Danfoss BD50 compressor, and comes with a small evaporator box. Extra things I bought beyond what comes with the 1M kit: the small evaporator box is both too small capacity-wise and doesn’t fit well in our icebox, so I also purchased a large flat-plate evaporator, unbent, and we’re going to bend it ourselves (they wouldn’t switch out the small box for a large flat plate, but they gave me a 20% discount on the extra one, so I got it for $80). I wanted to have both air- and water-cooled condensers, so I bought a water-cooled condenser which I am going to figure out how to mount and plumb in somewhere. I bought a 40 amp relay to use for powering the water circulation pump, and an analog thermometer to mount outside the icebox.
The excellently written manual for the 1M kit is here.
It all arrived today. It felt sort of like christmas, unpacking the boxes and discovering all of the parts. I took photos of all the stuff spread out on the floor. Below the black foam tubing are the extra parts beyond the 1M kit (and the white flat plate evaporator on the right).
There are a whole lot of parts for me to put together! And I won’t be able to start on it for at least another two weeks.
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