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It's been a while since I last posted but since prepping my WK a couple of years ago for a Pyrennese trip I’ve been really happy with the way everything has performed. The only area of disappointment was not having a proper fridge. The electric coolbox is fine on cooler UK camping trips, but isn’t really cutout for the heat of Span and southern France, and is too power hungry to leave on for extended periods. So with another euro trip planned in June I decided a bit of an update was in order. I decided that a proper compressor fridge was probably the way to go to provide proper fridge/freezer performance with low power consumption.
All things considered and after some measuring and research on fridge dimensions, I opted for a Waeco/Dometic CDF16 on a slide arrangement mounted to the right of kitchen drawer. I’ve almost completed the build apart from the painting and reinstallation but here are some pics of the build so far.
The original setup fully loaded with the toolbox to the left of the kitchen drawer.
Trial fit of the Dometic. I thought I was going to get away without too many mods but It was a tight fit so the draw box needed to be moved slightly to the left.
Draw removed to start the build
Routing the side of the drawer box to recess the slide runner to minimise width.
Runner in place.
Making up a frame to hold the fridge.
Tacking up the right hand runner mount. This has to sit higher than the left and runner to allow for the curvature of the tailgate corner.
Jack mount back in place after removing a strip from the edge to allow the draw to be moved 12mm to the left
Making the slide front plate. This will also act a support for the fold out table.
Trial fitting the slide.
More later...
All things considered and after some measuring and research on fridge dimensions, I opted for a Waeco/Dometic CDF16 on a slide arrangement mounted to the right of kitchen drawer. I’ve almost completed the build apart from the painting and reinstallation but here are some pics of the build so far.
The original setup fully loaded with the toolbox to the left of the kitchen drawer.
Trial fit of the Dometic. I thought I was going to get away without too many mods but It was a tight fit so the draw box needed to be moved slightly to the left.
Draw removed to start the build
Routing the side of the drawer box to recess the slide runner to minimise width.
Runner in place.
Making up a frame to hold the fridge.
Tacking up the right hand runner mount. This has to sit higher than the left and runner to allow for the curvature of the tailgate corner.
Jack mount back in place after removing a strip from the edge to allow the draw to be moved 12mm to the left
Making the slide front plate. This will also act a support for the fold out table.
Trial fitting the slide.
More later...