Ok, I can be patient to a point. I'd waited almost a month for the temperature gauge from hvactools.com, and since June for the front fender trim for the Whatzit to replace what I had crunched after the party. I got anxious and paid the extra money for the gauge from QAsupplies.com and the trim from J & P Cycles. I had them before the weekend. Since I was working 2 projects that Saturday I forgot the camera when I got the temp gauge in the refrigerator door.

I drilled the holes in the fender I had gotten earlier from Flaming Pig Cycles for the front and lower trim and punched the hole for the light. While I got that done I kept an eye on the temperature gauge and saw that the fridge went into defrost (or at least the temp dropped to about 46 degrees) then went back down to about 34 degrees. Looks like things were working well.

So Friday I was able to get my fender to John for a coat of white paint (along with a set of old saddlebags because Taz had told me at MAMBM that he thought my bags should be white rather than black, and since I had these lying around why not), and Saturday I got back to picture taking. When I installed the refrigerator compartment gauge I just left the 4' capillary tube slung over the faucet shank while I took the week to ponder how to protect it. Cheap and easy way turned out to be pop-riviting a whipped cream bowl over the 3/8" hole I had drilled through the inner wall for the back of the gauge since the capillary's coupling extended past the wall.

With another hole through the bowl's top, the sensor is all that's exposed once the capillary was coiled up inside.