?: How do you make an unpowered storage cool enough to work in ?

[nubee]

Answer: Red Neck AC


Main Ingredients:

* (1) Rubbermaid rolling two lid ice chest

* (1) Attwood V-Series bilge pump

* (1) Lawn tractor battery

* (8) 3" computer fans

* (1) 12X6" transmission oil cooler
(Hayden I think)

* (1) Sterilite 16qt. plastic tub
( for making ice blocks in your freezer)

* 1/2" pvc pipe and fittings, 5/8" clear
hose, lamp cord wire, wire nuts, 5/8"
T - hose barb, (2) 1/2" threaded to
5/8" hose barbs, push button switch,
plastic switch box, switch box cover,
and battery clips.

It will produce 80 degree air in a 100 degree storage shed

[prometheus578]

"I'm too lazy for that."

Materials:two large cardboard boxes, ten feet of vent hose from the clothes dryer, duct tape.
Park car next to shed. Rolled down passenger window. Duct tape cardboard from one box over the window. Cut a hole in the cardboard and insert one end of the hose. Run the other end of the hose under the shed door. Use the cardboard from the other box and with duct tape seal the bottom of the shed door.
start the car, turn on the A/C.

[mro]

Rubbermaid, cardboard, computer fans..........

Hmm....nothing more satisfying than spending a dollar to save a nickel....

much easier to wait till mother in-law leaves her house.
"borrow" her window AC....
use an extension cord...
plug and play solution


mro

[nubee]

prometheus578,

You have out red necked me.
I like it

[trbig]

Leave it to a Yankee to out-redneck the rest! lol. Methinks Prometheus has mistakenly hooked the dryer hose to the exhaust pipe too many times in this situation!

That is pretty cool though Newbie if you happen to have those materials around already. How long will that run on the battery?


Tod

[kf4anm]

what if you dropped a big block of drive ice in a bucket of water in the corner.

[TopCatGr58]

Originally posted by kf4anm
what if you dropped a big block of drive ice in a bucket of water in the corner.

Depending on the ventillation in the room, you might DIE of suffocation due to the Co2 gas(odorless) released by the Dry Ice as it "melts"....er converts directly from frozen state to gaseous state! Also a nice CSI episode of college kids killed while sleeping on floor of dorm room!
T.C.

[nubee]

trbig,

Believe it or not, about two hours. Shoots a pretty good stream or air too. I think I am working my poor frige to death The transmission cooler came off of my old water cooled computer. I had to buy the ice chest (about $22) and the pump about ($10) at Wally world. Most of the rest of the stuff I already had.

[nubee]

kf4anm,

What TC said (sublimation) and contributes to global warming

[prometheus578]

well, I didn't know how far the shed was from your house.
I figgered, since you didn't use any extension cord electricity, you might have been using one of those commercial storage places to hold your stuff and work inside as needed, so I figured the car's a/c.
If it's your own shed, how bout makin' a "Swamp Cooler" thing to set on the roof. Just would have to keep it watered.

[kf4anm]

you might DIE of suffocation


details, details

if you must, all you need is:

1 old exercise bike
1 worn out fire hose
1 antique metal blade fan
1 clawhammer
1 above stated cooler
2 illegal farm imigrants

simple connect the metal fan to the stationary bike using the firehose. fill your cooler with regualr h2o at home and freeze it. position 1 imigrant on the bike and the other with the claw hammer and cooler behind the fan. one pedals the other chops and throws ice into the blades. Immediate cool refreshing air!. To adjust the speed of the fan just radomly yell INS.

[nubee]

prometheus578,

You're right. It is a commercial 5'X10' storage "cubie" A swamper would put out more cool air, but it would use more power (bigger pump) and bigger fans. The pump just has to move water through a siphon loop now. I think the manager would frown on me cutting a hole in the roof for a swamper Do you think a battery powered SawzAll would do it ?

kf4anm,

Now, now That would take at least twelve of them. They wouldn't all fit in, besides they would sweat on my bike