09-17-2012, 07:36 AM
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
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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