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An actual swamp cooler might be more effective than this.
Where is that “thermodynamicist” tag?
i so need one of those…
also… my first first in my life
@Decay
and my first fail at firsting
I’ve always been a fan of Eski’s though usually even in a proper Eski it’ll melt quickly.
I’m waiting for all the trolls to come out and tell us in their made-up vernacular, how this won’t work…
I go with whatever Paddy says on this one. Paddy in my HVAC man and when Paddy speaks, I listen.
*is* not in – sorry
Just wondering how much Ice you need for a 300 Mile drive.
@Josef
All of it.
@Badgirl
[blushes] But yeah, you’re blowing air over frozen water. It’ll provide an amount of cooling…just don’t let the meltwater overflow all over your seats!
Reminds me of the old VW Beetle we sued to have. Once at a BBQ they were emptying out the ice bins and Dad had decided he could take it home. We put it in 2 plastic lined cattle feed bags and in the front trunk of the beetle, the am radio was removed and the ice cooled air would pour out there and the speaker grills. We made the 25 mile trek home and still had enough ice to make ice cream.
smart title!
I think it would be far more efficient to duct tape ice cubes to your forehead.
The scary thing is she saves the meltwater and in the colder months uses it to douse her heater.
@Badgirl
It was funnier with “in” but I guess it works either way.
I think it looks cool.
@1slick1
“Old VW Beetle”? “AM radio”? “Make ice cream”? When was this? 1950?
Never in a car, but I’ve done this. It works in a pinch.
HAW!
Tell ya what, until I could find a compressor for one old car, I had a similar setup but more elaborate. I had a cooler with icewater in it, and a pump pushing that through a couple of radiators with 12V fans on them. I’d have to stop every couple hundred miles for more ice, and it struggled to keep me cool on a hot day, but Rube Goldberg would have been proud, or maybe embarrassed.
@Chris
Plus, you would be using duct tape!
@Decay
Sorry. =D
Oh yeah, I’m ALL up in Badgirl’s HVAC!
When my dad wanted cooling in his car he would jam some ice in the vent window – never did much cooling but it sure did make the door & floor wet!
Keep it in plastic and the only water you’ll get on your seats is condensation.
I don’t quite understand what this achieves, can somebody explain?
>@purehatred89 “I don’t quite understand what this achieves, can somebody explain?”
As the ice melts, the air temperature will become a little bit cooler. The fan will circulate that cooler air to make an extremely inefficient attempt at an air conditioning system. It will have some effect, but how much is questionable. Paddy will have to fill in the BTUs, heat exchange rates, and all the scientific thermodynamicist stuff.
@purehatred89
It achieves the same thing a picture of penguins would. It cools the car somewhat for some time.
Leaving that bag on your seat for a while before you sit on it would have had a more noticeable effect.
My guess is that the cooler stopped working and they are just trying to keep the ice from melting with the fan.
Back in the early 70s we had an Audi that had a tray-like shelf under the hood almost up underneath the front window. We had no air conditioning because we lived in coastal California where 80 degrees was a hot day. When we visited in the Central Valley we filled the shelf with ice and used the existing ventilation system to blow the cooled air into the passenger compartment. It was actually fairly effective, and the water from the melting ice just ran out onto the pavement.
@Daniel
“picture of penguins”
Ha Ha!
Liquid nitrogen would work better.
Ok well since no one has said it yet. I’m screaming Photoshop!!!
When icy pictures like this, I freeze. As far as I’m concerned, this is an ice fix that I think is really cool. And although I’m a big fan of this kind of ingenuity, it frosts my a** how some people can go to such degrees to be so cold about another person’s misfortune. In fact, it melts my heart. Just remember, someday you too might end up on the rocks, so chill out, okay?
@Peggy
That’s really cool (no pun intended; that’s Dono1′s department)! I wonder if you could do something like that with dry ice?
@Paddy
Don’t know- never tried dry ice. The Audi is long gone, and I now buy cars with air conditioning!
My grandmother used to tell stories about how when she was growing up, they used to stick a block of ice on the dashboard when driving through hot areas because air conditioning didn’t exist. So yeah, not a new idea.
Seeing as this appears to be a Pontiac and probably a Grand Prix at that, I guess the driver is lucky just to have a working blower!!!!
For those of us with cars lacking AC, this is a solid first attempt. You will find that a battery-powered box fan facing into a cooler containing dry ice (sealed around the edges of the fan), is the advanced version of this device. Still, solid first attempt.
They are truly careful not only about ice melting but also has the box locked to the car, see the red thing?
Thats what they did in the old days
Isn’t this the airbag inflation system??
I think I have the exact same fan in my car!!! Great use of the ice chest though.
aaaah, the swamp cooler, the epitome of redneck ingenuity