So my landlord had a new fridge delivered yesterday and I got to inherit the old vintage fridge that doesn't know when to quit. I am not using it's 'fridge' capacity now as you can't turn the temp up above freezing everything in it solid and I don't have the dinero to invest in a controler at this point. but I figure it's well insulated and if I swap out ice packs, frozen bottles etc. daily it should be good. tossed 10 gallons of cali common in there last night with all the gel packs, ice packs I had on hand and frozen (About a dozen) and it feels reasonably cool this morning, thermometer strips on the fermentors are reading 68 which is a little high for a cali common but it will have to do for now and at least it will stay fairly stable. yipee