On Tue, 15 May 2007 03:28:23 +0000, against all advice, something
compelled Paul Arthur >, to say:

> On 2007-05-15, Steve Daniels > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > We bought some wine from Bob The Wine Guy
> > (http://www.cascadecliffs.com/). It's going to be better a
> > couple of years from now, not that there's much wrong with it
> > right now.
> >
> > I had an idea of taking an old refrigerator, modifying the
> > insides to hold wine bottles, and setting it to the highest
> > temperature it would run. We bounced this idea off of Bob The
> > Wine Guy, and he expressed a concern about the vibration of the
> > compressor messing up the wine.
> >
> > So could one insulate the bottles from the vibration using
> > something like water balloons or fiberglass insulation? Is the
> > vibration really that much of an issue?
>
> This is an example of received wisdom. Most people saying that this
> might be an issue have no personal experience, but are merely repeating
> something that they once heard someone express as a possible concern.
> And that person heard it from someone else, et cetera.

Well, he's the guy that made the wine, not Just Some Guy. But I
don't notice my 'fridge shaking all that much when its running.

> Unless you have an extremely aggressive compressor, I wouldn't worry
> about vibration; I'd be more worried about uneven cooling or overly
> large temperature fluctuations, as they're much more likely to actually
> affect the wine.

So, a fan in the box to keep the temp even? The whole 'fridge
idea was predicated upon keeping the temperature even, no matter
what the house did.

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