Date: | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:50:28 -0230 |
Reply-To: | Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> |
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From: | Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> |
Subject: | Re: A/C was re: What is camping anyway? |
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Or get a clip-on 12-volt fan and attached it to the dashboard. Plug it into
the cigarette lighter and turn it on to blow on you while you are driving.
I've never actually done that, but I've considered it.
In desperation, driving in kind of slow traffic up the eastern shore of the
Chesapeake Bay one HOT summer day (it can be very hot in that part of the
world!), I finally stopped at a very A/C-ed McDonald's for a few hours and
read a book. Taking a break does help sometimes! Chills the system
thoroughly (yours, not your van's), when you get back on the road it's
easier to deal with.
Or just move to Newfoundland. It's never too hot here.
Joy
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mike South <msouth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Take a t-shirt laid out flat, roll down from the top until you get to the
> bottom of the sleeves. Tie the rolled part around your head so that the
> shirt covers your head and drapes down your neck. Now you look like an
> Arab
> AND a stoner while driving your VW. Expect even more unjustified stops.
> But anyway. Use a squeeze water bottle to soak the rim of your Lawrence
> of
> Arabia headgear.
>
> As I learned when wearing a sandblasting helmet that had air piped to it
> from the same compressor that was running the sandblaster, if you keep your
> head cool, it doesn't really matter how the rest of the body feels.
>
> Regarding the rotary vane air compressor for air conditioning, it looks
> like
> the guy in the article continued to work on it, he is on a patent
> (5087183) from 1992:
>
>
> http://www.docstoc.com/docs/41865875/Rotary-Vane-Machine-With-Simplified-Anti-friction-Positive-Bi-axial-Vane-Motion-Control---Patent-5087183
>
> It would be interesting to see what he would say about the potential for
> the
> technology.
>
> This google book result says that the device was heavy and noisy:
>
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=gpo3V8PPhFUC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=rovac+corporation+florida&source=bl&ots=_pkvct9Vrk&sig=Gq2LD_11a3PCA0eSyqyVEEaFCM4&hl=en&ei=recQTNDwAcG88gbXq_mqBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=rovac%20corporation%20florida&f=false
>
> mike
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:56 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net
> >wrote:
>
> > At 01:43 PM 6/9/2010, Rowan Tipton wrote:
> >
> >> Which you can do even if you have an a/c and generator for those times
> >> the heat is to much. I don't seem to hear this argument about putting
> >> a Propex or other heater in our vans so why do we have it about a/c.
> >>
> >
> > When I was growing up and air conditioning wasn't all that common at
> > least in the Northeast, it seemed to have a faint but distinct flavor
> > of indulgence and moral decay to it, especially if it was in a
> > car. Maybe that was just my family, but I wonder...
> >
> > As the fat heat-intolerant owner of a non-AC Vanagon who often drives
> > alone, I've come to rely on the blast effect of the quarter-windows;
> > and I was some dismayed to find that mother VW has become too
> > concerned for my safety to allow me to open the darn things to a
> > blast position. I've concluded there's no practical way to outwit
> > them without drilling a hole in the outer door skin, and while I
> > think about that I've been known to muse on the possibilities of some
> > sort of personal cooling system. Which always leads me to wonder
> > what happened to the ROVAC
> > system.
> > <
> >
> http://books.google.com/books?id=WwEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=rovac+air+conditioner&source=bl&ots=VvTiK97nzA&sig=2MCLGpTq0lnWCCKsLv6nDvNvFmQ&hl=en&ei=DX0QTOeRCcP38AaVwOH-BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=rovac%20air%20conditioner&f=true
> > >
> >
> > Yours,
> > David
> >
>
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