Grassroots A/C

For these hot, sticky Summer days.

NICE!

WOW thats getto, even for us.

Im about to drive to charleston to pick up a car-in a van with no AC! That thought has crossed my mind many a time!

I'm in Chucktown.. If you need a hand shoot me a note.

Necessity, invention, whatever. I particularly like the taillights. I'm in Chucktown as well, if ya need a hand PM me.

That's really impressive with the generator. Last summer I followed for a very short while an older Toyota Previa with a window unit installed into one of the side windows near the rear. Scared me but it had plates from sonewhere way out West so I guess if it hadn't fallen out in several thousand miles of driving it wasn't going to fall into my lap, but I changed lanes away just in case and couldn't get a clear pic before it turned off.

Scott

I'm from about 60 miles north of Charleston, can we get possibly anymore Redneck than this???? LMAO!!!!!!

That tein suspension sticker must really firm up the suspension on that lincoln, especially on the passenger side.

MrJoshua wrote: Im about to drive to charleston to pick up a car-in a van with no AC! That thought has crossed my mind many a time!

Oh are you now? Good to hear!

Nitroracer wrote: That tein suspension sticker must really firm up the suspension on that lincoln, especially on the passenger side.

The Japanese use a similar sticker but yellow/green to denote a novice driver. I wonder if it faded.

Also, an orange/yellow teardrop is to denote drivers over 60! No AARP in Nippon, I guess.

Ha, a friend of mine in highschool did that on his 70-ish c-1500. Had a big hole cut in the back of the cab and through the bed, with dryer duct to get the air up over the bench seat. Actually worked pretty well. He used a big AC inverter instead of a generator, though.

That was back in the days of cheap gas....a bigass American land-yacht PLUS a generator and an AC unit? Not light!

Some old-people warning stickers would be great...it would tell me to prepare to pass, so I wouldn't bleed off my momentum (especially when driving the sammy) only to end up behind a brake-testing centerline-driving corner-phobic granny.

"Honey, I shrank the motor home!"

This is something Ive def. considered a few times, my Chevy work van has no ac, but it does have a power invertor....

I'll relate my own experiments in the AC mayhem of keeping a boat cool in Missouri heat/humidity. My former wife now has this boat . . . so long and good riddance to both. :-)

Experiment #1: To appease the father-in-law . . . attempted to make a portable AC unit . . . a window unit inside of a box with ducting out of the box to the outside of the boat. The whole unit was designed to sit as a "table" in the upper camper enclosure. It overheated terribly (and probably contributed to it's ultimate demise last year). I put a blower in there to exhaust the heat, added a second vent . . . basically everything to get it to work. I kind of figured this outcome already, but as I said, it was an "appeaser" and I'm getting married in one week to a FANTASTIC woman. 'Enuf said there! :-)

Experiment #2: This was my original idea, and fashioned after the hatch air units that they sell. The same AC unit was instead placed above the boat hatch (26 foot cabin cruiser) that was always in dock with 110 power available. I built a air diverter that channeled the cool air from the AC down the hatch into the boat. The boat ran about 65 degrees or so. A hatch air unit is about $800 or so, mine was free -- aside from a few pieces of aluminum and Masonite to build the air diverter. I used a towel to insulate it because the outside air would sweat on the unit. I used some foam insulation to make up difference on the hatch. A cover placed over the top of the thing kept any stray rain water out (it was under a dock the whole time -- it was a glorified travel trailer on water . . . minus wheels). Down the road I planned on insulating it and fiberglassing that to make it less frumpy (white trash?) looking . . . but no need now!

From what I understand, they're now using a room AC inside the boat, but still having cooling issues with the rear sleeping quarters. :-)

aeronca65t wrote: For these hot, sticky Summer days.

BERKELEY_YES!