Gave my fridge a facelift

The inside cabin of my 94 Sailfish was in great shape with the exception of the fridge. The fridge worked fine but had a lot of surface rust. It turned out being quite easy to deal with - I removed the four pieces of metal trim around the outside and sanded to near bare metal with one of those little triangle shaped sanders. Then I primed and painted with a black appliance paint. I bought a package of SS screws and tossed the rusted ones. The original screws were self tapping and the holes needed to be cleaned up with a regular tap before inserting the stainless screws. I figured that out after I broke one - thank God for cobalt drill bits...

Guys - thanks. One thing that seems odd to me with the 1994 boat is that neither the fridge or the microwave had ever been used. Inside the fridge, the mini ice cube tray was still wrapped in plastic and taped to one of the shelves and inside the microwave, the glass plate was still wrapped in the cardboard it shipped in. The insides of both are like new but the outsides of both were a different story.

Nice job on the fridge, but as a heating guy I got to ask - did you make the custom recessed pipe radiator in the wall cavity?

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Yes, I did - thanks! That is my steam return line. The old staircase had a 90 degree turn to avoid the old overhead return line. I put the return line underground so that I could build the new staircase. When I felt how hot the vertical pipe got, and noted that it gets hot even before any of the radiators get hot, a light bulb when off in my head that I could recover some of that heat by adding those pipe bends. It's like free heat! (Well almost..)

Someday I'll finish off that basement room. I was wondering - when I sheetrock the walls, what should I cover the pipe radiator with? Some kind of sheet-metal grate?

Thanks,
-Scott