recycling a frig.

Well it happens to everyone eventual, the frig gives up the ghost. At one time getting rid of the sucker was easy, drag it out to the curb, take off the doors, safety first, and the trash company would take it away for a nice burial in the land fill. Now-a-days things have changed, seems the coolant and the atmospheric ozone don't get along well. Some areas will recycle the old thing for free, other make you pay.
Why give up a perfectly good tool?
I bet that got your attention. Several useful things can be made out of old fridges, store paint, welding rods, parts even. All that stuff is just too easy to do with other storage methods.

How about a Sand (media) blasting cabinet? Wouldn't it be cool, sorry, bad pun, to be able to clean small or large parts without the mess of blasting media all over the place?
Simple stuff, use the freezer part if you want a small cabinet, use the refrig part if you want a large cabinet. Scratching your head?
Remove the door, whichever one, and carefully fold back the magnet strip, you will notice a strip with screws, remove all of them, and set aside the magnet strip.
Measure the opening and go get some Plexiglas, reattach the magnetic strip to the Plexi, add hinges and you have a cabinet door. Remove as much of the interior as you want, however the shelves might come in handy.
Strip out the other compartment, and drill a hole with a big hold saw, this is where the vacuum hose will go to keep thing neat.
Drill a hole in the side of the cabinet for the air line, or better yet make up a hard connection.
Cut a couple of holes in the Plexi door and attach some heavy to the elbow gloves and you are done.
Did I mention you have to turn things upside down if you want to use the big section? OOPS.
Making tools is so much fun when you get to recycle at the same time.