Icemakers and Vintage Reefers...

[travis]

The hardest part in adding an ice maker to a refrigerator would be drilling holes for the wiring and water lines. You can easily drill into a refrigerant line and be sol in a hurry.

A friend of mine added an ice maker to a small chest freezer. On the third try he got it. The other freezers died during the attempt.

 

[laundromat]

Didn't his freezers have any chest pains prior to their loss?????

 

[travis]

No, he bought all three with the intention of installing the ice maker in them. The first one he hit a line. He measured on the second one to avoid the line hit had hit on the first, but the lines were in a different spot. He did get a whole drilled in the third.

I just mention this since you need to be careful when modifying something vintage. It wasn't that sad to kill two chinese freezers, but a nice old fridge would be another story.