Ok, I decided to modify my ghetto chiller, so let's see.... This "conversion" has been wrought with issues. I'm not going to bother to detail each and every one though. Had problems with the charging, evac, water tight seals...the list goes on. Seems as though I've struggled through them successfully though. The chiller has not been taken out to it's home yet, but is ready for that....probably tomorrow.

So, on with the show:

Rolled my evap = At least 2 dozen feet of 1/4" copper...2 separate paths/coils....3/8" in and out:





Pulled the ghetto chiler, brought it inside, got out the piercing valve and got setup for the recovery:





That went well enough, so it was time to put the evap together and get it mounted. My first attempt looked like this, but I'll tell ya--trying to get 3/8" copper through those 1/2" holes...without creasing it--is a task I could not seem to accomplish :





So, a 1 hr round trip to Lowes and it came out looking more like this:





Of course, I knew I should have left a few more inches of copper on the evap ends, but for some reason I thought I left enough ( ) So, I ended up improvising a solution to get the evap/res mounted to the chiller:





I used these water tight sealing doodads for the evap lines in and out. Of course they gave me seapage/leakage issues, but I've managed to get them leak-free:





While attaching the res/evap I added the low side port as seen in the vacuum pump pic above. And removed the manufacturer crimped off access port and attached a shrader valve there for the high side access port:






So, now it's ready for the evac.....