Product review (4 stars): Excellent beginners' kegerator, potential to grow with you!
Love this little guy. Huge fan. I can't imagine how you could beat it for the price. I bought it for our office and it happily served over 500 employees every day (not all at once) for a year before we built our own dual-tap two-half-barrel keezer to replace it. It also taught me everything I needed to know about kegerators and kegging homebrew. Since I've taken it home, it's grown with me, and now I've modded it hold 2 corny kegs or 2 1/6 bbl kegs. Perfect for home use. My point is that this fat little cutie will grow with you.

PROS:

Keeps the beer COLD. If you're having problems, either you need to turn up the dial on the compressor, or you probably need to move it away from the wall. Go look at how far your regular fridge is from the wall. That far.

Easy. Anything that was difficult about setting this thing up is just necessary knowledge that you're going to need to have to safely operate a kegerator of any type. No kegerator will be or should be plug and play, but this thing gets it as close as it you want it to.

IF YOU GET FOAM:

The most important thing to remember is that it's (almost) never the kegerator's fault. That's good, because it means you can fix it!

Did you get your keg cold and just take it out of the car? Let it rest, you agitated the CO2 like shaking a can of soda.

Did you let your keg chill for at least 8 hours (preferably 12-18)? DON'T SKIP THIS STEP! I know it's really tough, but it's unavoidable. If you don't pay attention to this, you will (a) incorrectly set your pressure, (b) get very flat, but paradoxically foamy beer. What happens at warm temperatures is that the CO2 and your beer separate in the keg (like oil and vinegar in dressing). When you open up the tap, they explosively mix like a warm bottle of soda. You will lose a ton of beer, and trust me, you don't want to drink the beer that comes out when it's warm and flat. If you've never done this before, you're going to ignore this advice and try it. That's good, now you'll know why it tastes terrible and what to do to fix it.

Okay, your keg is chilled. Still foamy? The first beer of the day will always be a little foamy. This is because the plastic lines that travel from the top of the fridge to the faucet are warm. After you pour one or two beers, the cold beer will chill the lines. Until then, the lines will be warming the beer. Warm beer = foam, remember? If you keep your kegerator in a very warm room, or a warm spot of the room, this problem will reoccur every hour or so of disuse.

Alright, you've chilled your keg, poured a few beers, and it's still foamy. Well, the lines in this kegerator are short. That means that the ideal pressure can be finicky. Now that the keg is cold, your regulator should read an accurate pressure. Try starting at 9. If there's no foam, you can take it all the way up to 12 or even 15 if you're adventurous. If there is foam, you can take it down to 5 without too many problems. Between 2 and 4, you should definitely not have any foam if you followed the directions above. Just know that if you take more than a week to drink your beer and you're keeping the pressure at 2 - 4, you might end up with flat beer in the keg. That's okay, just up the pressure back to 9 while you're not using it. If you let it get flat you can try leaving it at 20psi for a while to force carbonate it again. Turn it back down before you start drinking it again, though. Also, when you're turning the pressure down, you'll need to pull the little ring (on the regulator not the coupler) for a second to let the regulator relax and get an accurate reading.

CAVEATS:

The keg will hang off the edge of the fridge. The door is a half moon shape that closes over it. Some people hate this design. I personally think it's cool. It really says, "HEY, There's a keg in me!"

Comes with a 2.5# (pronounced "pound") tank. Mine was actually really nice, high quality. Probably would last 7-10 kegs. If you can find somewhere that fills this, great! I couldn't. I ended up just buying a 5# tank from my supply shop. $60 filled, lasts twice as long. Only downside is that it needs to be balanced a bit on the ledge to fit inside, but it DOES fit. I recommend you keep it inside and ignore anyone that tells you to mod the kegerator to put it outside. Cold CO2 means less foam.

Doesn't hold Coors kegs. Solution: don't drink Coors. Why do you have a kegerator, again? In all seriousness, the reason is that Coors kegs use a beveled keg style that is several inches wider around its belly, and it just doesn't fit.

Beverage line is about 5'. I'd prefer about 6'. Before I replaced the lines, sometimes I'd have to turn the pressure down to 5 or 6 psi, normally you'd prefer 9 to 12 psi. Don't fret about that. After about 6 months you'll figure out how to do the calculations and make all the lines exactly the length you want. Or not, you could be completely happy with this without ever messing with it. Pours a little slow at 5 psi, but it's worth it to avoid foam.

Originally, assembly was a bit perplexing for me as I didn't know which washers were for what or where, and I had leftover parts. The ended up actually being spare, but that wasn't documented. All you really need to know is that the really hard, thick washer connects directly between your CO2 tank and the regulator. As for the rest, you might get a little wet, but you'll be okay.

MINOR:

Use teflon tape. Especially on the air hoses, but why not everywhere? I don't know if this kit comes with any (I wouldn't expect it to) but do yourself a favor and get your hands on some. It's cheap and easy to use; just wrap clockwise!

Included keg coupler only fits American beers. This isn't particular to this kegerator; they all only have Sankey D couplers. You should just know before you try to hook up a keg of Stella. Your local beverage shop might lie to you. You can get other couplers if you like foreign beers. The other major kinds are Sankey S (European) and Sankey A (German). Don't mess with these unless you have a good supplier. Quality of imports in kegs is finicky.

The tower mount is non-standard. When I replaced my tower I had to drill new holes. Be careful if you do this. It's easy to accidentally drill too far and hit the chill plate. Trust me. I was lucky enough that even though I drilled through the chill plate that I didn't hit any cooling lines. Be more careful than I was if you attempt this.