[TheForge] Air Conditioning

[Jerry Smith]

Charles,

That is a good idea, it doesn't get that hot here, but
the humidity can be terrible.

Now I have to look for such a fan.

Many Thanks,

Jerry

--- xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:

> Jerry Smith wrote:
> > How many of you out there have your shops air
> > conditioned, because I would like to know who you
> do
> > it. I need to have a door open while I am forging
> and
> > more likely than not I am forging outside because
> of
> > the heat build up in my shop building.
> >
> > Jerry
> About five years ago there was a discussion of swamp
> coolers for the 
> shop.    I got in the habit of picking up every
> attic fan I found on big 
> trash pickup day.  I have about eight or nine now,
> and since I no longer 
> have room for them, have loaned them out to friends
> with warehouses or 
> large areas to cool.  I kept one that I boxed in
> with a tube frame and 
> sheet metal housing mounted on casters.  I was going
> to make a big swamp 
> cooler out of it, ala
> http://www.portablecoolers.com/, but  settled on 
> hooking up a simple mister system bought at Lowes. 
> Works fine for the 
> driveway with the mister on, and without I can point
> it into or out of 
> the shop to get air moving.  In Texas, you acclimate
> your body, or hide 
> all summer long, a little breeze to help your
> natural bodily cooling 
> processes along is all you need.  If it is still too
> hot, well then it 
> is too hot.     Coming from Texas, I love the heat,
> (I travel a lot and 
> it feels great in the summer when I feel the heat in
> the airbridge 
> getting off the plane --home)  and used to say if it
> was dry it couldn't 
> get too hot.  That was before I worked in Tempe. 
> Once it heads north of 
> 110, it doesn't matter how dry it is.  It has gotten
> as high as 122 
> there, though they have been beat by Lake Havusa who
> has endured 128.    
> When I was there, it regularly bested 113.
> 
> Charles
> 
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