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Author Topic: The $6 vending machine bottle thermometer  (Read 3052 times)
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« on: December 07, 2018, 06:37:46 pm »

I'm sure someone's done this.  I didn't bother to look before posting.  So if you beat me to it, i commend you.

I was trying to calibrate the temperature inside the machine.  At first i had a few magnetic thermometers inside, which i'd open and look at.  Or one inside the bottle door.  These were helpful, but they didnt tell me what i really needed to know.  What temperature the beverages were on each of the shelves.

I decided to make a bottle with a built in instant-read thermometer.

It's pretty simple. 

1 6 dollar harbor freight thermometer.  (if you're thrifty you'll use the 20% of coupon that is everywhere)
13 ounces of 40% isopropyl alcohol
1 empty beer bottle
1 bottle cap
1 bottle capper
1 drill (or drill press)
1 drill bit
1 tube of seal-all fuel resistant adhesive (this is the only thing i could find that alcohol does't dissolve)

smack it all together and you have yourself a thermometer you can read directly from the bottle window.  One that won't freeze until 0 degrees fahrenheit.

in my case the bottle shelves range from 33.8 on the bottle to 34 on the top.  So I'd say it's pretty dialed in

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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2018, 11:45:08 am »

        Thanks for posting those results, that's interesting!

         Glad to see you are having so much fun with your first machine, we guarantee it won't be your last  happydrinkers
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2018, 07:57:10 am »

Ingenious.
Thanks for the idea.
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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2018, 09:58:37 am »

Great Idea for sure,, I've done that in sliders with the bottle upright , but never thought of sealing it .. I'll have to make one.
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2018, 12:56:12 pm »

That’s a good idea , wish I had done that at Thanksgiving before I froze everything in my antique refrigerator. Replaced the thermostat with a coke machine thermostat and just set it on 4 and walked away.
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