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It's been 97 or 98 deg. F. every day and even 89 at 10 PM at night, so I will wait till next week when it will be in the mid 80's to do my projects. Dew points were in the 70's and heat index was 105 and up today so I stayed indoors with the air on. I feel for the people in other states that lost power a week ago and still are out.
Paul
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When I was living and working in Australia, I used to get at least one or two months a year when it never dropped below 30C even overnight, so we would work nights just to beat the heat as days in the shop would exceed 50C, 42C+ outside but under that tin roof...
I was at the local scrap yard and saw a rusted out window fit AC unit, it was a 3HP unit, so pretty big really, but the case and base was just a load of rusty scale so I took it back to the shop and made up a gal steel tray for all the bits and bobs to be welded down to and put a full shroud around the hot side heat exchanger, and then connected this to a duct fan that connected to 150mm 6" flexible ducting, scrap yard sourced of course, I put the whole thing on top of an old welder trolley that had been around forever and on really hot days I would point the cool air directly at me and roll the flex duct out the door, It was about three hours work and ugly as sin, but what a great device, when I started working in the UK I went into a local Homebase hardware store and there it was, exactly the same idea in a nice sanitised plastic case with remote controller, so I bought a couple and shipped them back to Oz with my tools, Oh and they were cheap too, £179 each on sale at the end of summer, where the window jobbies were twice that money in Oz at the time.
I gave one to my Dad and still have the other, it came back to the UK when I moved permanently. It's been used on three continents and had four different power plugs fitted over the years depending on where I was working at the time.
As you might have noticed I don't like working in the heat.
Rick
Rick
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the little 3" air cutoff tool i for the most part have found to be virtually useless and aggravating tool.
the only time i enjoy using it is when cutting something i need kept cool. ill just cut it under a stream of water. it lets you very quickly rough a severely damaged drill back to use.
thoroughly dry and oil tool afterwards. (even if its a $1.99 harbor freight one)
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I have used a cutoff wheel in my radial arm saw many times for cutting small pieces of steel and tooling.
You can clamp a piece of scrap (anything) to the fence to use as a stop and get consistent cut to length pieces.
Just a word of warning though..............
Be sure to clean up any sawdust laying around FIRST!
Or at least keep a full bucket of water around.
Ask me how I know............
Best Regards,
Russ
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(09-20-2012, 09:36 PM)mikecwik Wrote: the little 3" air cutoff tool i for the most part have found to be virtually useless and aggravating tool.
the only time i enjoy using it is when cutting something i need kept cool. ill just cut it under a stream of water. it lets you very quickly rough a severely damaged drill back to use.
thoroughly dry and oil tool afterwards. (even if its a $1.99 harbor freight one)
That's the nice thing about an air tool. No worries about getting electrocuted.
An air compressor is on my long list of needed tools.
Ed
