Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/30/2021 6:38 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
>
> >>>>>
> >>>> My new appliance (plastic dinosaur) was made in Indonesia.
> >>>> You really want one. You might not know it yet, but you want
> >>>> one. Unless you already own a misting fan, or live where it
> >>>> doesn't get hot, you want one.
> >>>> https://www.directtoolsoutlet.com/Pr...g-Fan/p/PMF01B
> >>>> They're only $50 w/o the battery, and if you don't already have
> >>>> RYOBI battery tools, you want those too. My God I'm looking
> >>>> forward to camping season this year.
> >>>
> >>> I got a guitar that's made in Vietnam by a Korean company.
> >> From plastic oven control pads, to vaccines, to Indonesian camping
> >> fans, to Korean guitars all in three posts with absolutely nothing
> >> connecting any of them to each other.
> >>
> > My misting fan is sublime. Misting fans in general are great. It gets hot
> > in Texas. If you don't have a misting fan, it's your loss.
> >>
> I prefer air conditioning. Lowers temperature, removes humidity
You mean you don't have a swamp cooler attached to one of your car windows, Ed...???
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog...-swamp-cooler/
Cold Comfort: Firestone Thermador Car Cooler (Evaporative €śSwamp Cooler€ť)
BY PAUL NIEDERMEYER €“ POSTED ON JUNE 30, 2020
"Ive been hoping to find a vintage automotive €śswamp cooler€ť for quite a while, since I remember these so well from our annual trips to Colorado. And its on a 66 F-100, no less. And at an antique plane show, even. Maybe later€¦ But lets take a quickie look at the way to keep cool before air conditioning, provided you lived in the western half of the country.
The technology of an evaporative cooler was certainly simple and reliable enough: A canister with a ram tube, some kind of pad of porous material, and a reservoir of about a gallon of water to keep the pad wet. The cool air was then routed into the interior. The drier the air, the better they worked, so they were particularly popular in the South West. Im not sure where the cut-off point was in their sales; Nebraska or Kansas, maybe?
There were several main manufacturers, and Thermador was one of the biggest.. This one is Firestone branded, undoubtedly sold through their one-time huge chain of stores.
These swamp coolers were first made in the 30s, and finally petered out in the late 60s or so, although one can still buy new ones for that typical overdone look, with every available and conceivable accessory that so many restored old cars sport...
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nrd515
Posted July 2, 2014 at 11:52 PM
If I could run a swamp cooler for free, I still wouldnt have one. I worked in a place that had one, and it was horrible. Yeah, it was cooler than outside, but it was humid as hell, and were were soaking wet with sweat almost instantly every morning when we arrived. We complained and complained, and finally the boss (Whose office had a normal A/C unit) had to work with us and out came the swamper, and back came the fans.
A couple of years later, a friend of mine bought a house with a swamper on it, and within a week of moving in, he was getting estimates for real A/C. His wife was the only one who liked it. I was in it for a half hour and it was almost as bad as it was at work, and it was only 90 or so outside. I would hate to think how bad it would have been with the temp up another 10-20 degrees.
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avatar64DartGT
Posted June 30, 2020 at 3:54 PM
Two thumbs up for your post, nrd515. Here in Utah there are still thousands of houses with rooftop swampers. While they do put out a certain amount of nicely cooled air, they dont cool the whole house. If you happen to be right under the thing, youll feel fine, but if you are a few rooms away or on a different floor, a swamper wont help you much. A few years ago, my sister and brother-in-law came back from church to find that the ceiling in their kitchen had collapsed, strewing wet drywall and insulation all over the place. The culprit? A leaking swamper. It was at that point that my sister insisted that they get central air€“which shed wanted for years. Swampers are also noisy and prone to breakdowns€“not fun to fix when its 100 degrees-plus outside (you have to climb up on the roof, where its even hotter). When we moved back here from the humid Midwest, we let our real estate agent know that AC was a must..."
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