I've been trying to find a way to cool my shop down. Summer was slow getting here but it's heating up now.
kickin myself for not making room in the shop budget for insulation... and for not putting the lift in 90 degrees from where it's at and not putting another overnead door there and a double driveway... so the budget needed to be about 5 grand bigger for all the butt kickin to be diminished...
Anyway... I tried a window unit. Blocked off the walk in door with some old OSB and vented the unit outside... that was a no go. It wasn't a very big unit anyway.. maybe 5000 BTU, but it worked if my face was pressed up against the vent.
I've been looking for a used swamp cooler but can't find one. Don't want to spend $600 - $1000 for a new one. So I tried making one today.... just a test. Make a small one with crap I have laying around and see how it works.
My wife says "bleh" whenever I mention swamp coolers. She hates them. And she's one of those people that cringes when I say the word "moist". Don't know if it's related... But I'm trailer trash. I grew up in an old trailer house with a swamp cooler and I love them. I'm not about napping but give me a couch parked in front of a swamp cooler on a hot afternoon and I'll be out like a light.
Trailer trash story!
Both of my parents read a lot of sci-fi and I grew up with that, still read a lot of sci-fi. When the old Battlestar Gallactica series premiered on TV my dad was pretty jazzed up to see it. That was way before cable and we lived a few miles outside of town anyway. Dad bought a new antennae and new leads to get the best reception he could. Rushing to get the antennae up before the show started... running the new leads and didn't have time to do a drop or anything.. he got his .380 out of his jacket pocket and shot a hole in the wall behind the TV.
... and then was disappointed in the series. Good premise, crappy execution. the later remake was much better.
Anyway... impromptu swamp cooler.
Started with the frame off the old motorcycle jack. Took the cabinet off of it that I put on there last week. At the old house I had 2 20" box fans mounted in a frame under the carport. I mounted the frame and fans onto the old lift frame.
Then I stole a panel from one of the rose bushes and zip tied some 1/2" ID nylon hose to it, then zip tied some batting to it too.
4 pic limit...
kickin myself for not making room in the shop budget for insulation... and for not putting the lift in 90 degrees from where it's at and not putting another overnead door there and a double driveway... so the budget needed to be about 5 grand bigger for all the butt kickin to be diminished...
Anyway... I tried a window unit. Blocked off the walk in door with some old OSB and vented the unit outside... that was a no go. It wasn't a very big unit anyway.. maybe 5000 BTU, but it worked if my face was pressed up against the vent.
I've been looking for a used swamp cooler but can't find one. Don't want to spend $600 - $1000 for a new one. So I tried making one today.... just a test. Make a small one with crap I have laying around and see how it works.
My wife says "bleh" whenever I mention swamp coolers. She hates them. And she's one of those people that cringes when I say the word "moist". Don't know if it's related... But I'm trailer trash. I grew up in an old trailer house with a swamp cooler and I love them. I'm not about napping but give me a couch parked in front of a swamp cooler on a hot afternoon and I'll be out like a light.
Trailer trash story!
Both of my parents read a lot of sci-fi and I grew up with that, still read a lot of sci-fi. When the old Battlestar Gallactica series premiered on TV my dad was pretty jazzed up to see it. That was way before cable and we lived a few miles outside of town anyway. Dad bought a new antennae and new leads to get the best reception he could. Rushing to get the antennae up before the show started... running the new leads and didn't have time to do a drop or anything.. he got his .380 out of his jacket pocket and shot a hole in the wall behind the TV.
... and then was disappointed in the series. Good premise, crappy execution. the later remake was much better.
Anyway... impromptu swamp cooler.
Started with the frame off the old motorcycle jack. Took the cabinet off of it that I put on there last week. At the old house I had 2 20" box fans mounted in a frame under the carport. I mounted the frame and fans onto the old lift frame.
Then I stole a panel from one of the rose bushes and zip tied some 1/2" ID nylon hose to it, then zip tied some batting to it too.
4 pic limit...