Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:49:29 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
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Jake must live where the weather is pretty nice. I can get by on fresh
air vents just part of the year, but not the summer. You need a fan
when it goes and stays above 90 around here.
Jim
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Jake de Villiers
<crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Mike, I can't believe that your dash end vents don't bring in enough air
> at 55 mph.
>
> Are they open, unobstructed, have you moved the 'Vent' slider from one side
> to the other?
>
> Summer settings in my '84 are:
>
> L---
> L---
> ---R
> L---
>
> Lots of air that way out the ends and on the feet. Its Dixie's only
> drawback - the In-dash Behr AC usurps the end vents...
>
> Seeya, Jake
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <
> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe someday the air conditioning fairy will pay a visit and tell me
>> that because I've been a good boy I'll have A/C in all my cars
>> forevermore. More likely not, though.
>>
>> I have a dash-mounted fan like this one:
>>
>> <
>> http://www.overstock.com/Auto-Parts/All-Metal-12-volt-Dash-Fan/2672978/product.html
>> >
>>
>> And while it makes a quite pleasant whirring sound, the air doesn't
>> reach the driver. I've tinkered with the curvature of the blades but no
>> matter what I do, the fan is best-suited for blowing stuff off the dash,
>> not cooling the driver.
>>
>> Now, if you take off the chrome wire cage and remove the blade assembly,
>> then the blade assembly from one of these pops right onto the shaft:
>>
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Volt-Fan-12V-Suction-Base/dp/B001449QRY>
>>
>> Better blade design, it moves more air, and the air reaches the driver.
>>
>> Rather than stop there, though, I thought I'd ask the group if they have
>> had good success with some other fan, or have come up with a good way to
>> break up that bubble of hot air that seems to surround the driver and
>> passenger's faces and heads. (And no, I don't mean the hot air that I
>> emit when I express opinions!). At highway speeds, the wind wings are
>> far too noisy; and not enough air blows from the defrost vents or the
>> dash vents to do much good.
>> --
>> Rocky J Squirrel
>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>> Bend, OR
>> KG6RCR
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
>
> 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
> 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
>
> Crescent Beach, BC
>
> www.thebassspa.com
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>
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