Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:49:45 -0600
Reply-To: Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
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On Jul 10, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> Hey Jake, we've covered this before. I think my heater box is messed
> up,
> or maybe you have a higher tolerance for hot air around your head than
> I, or maybe it's just cooler where you live.
>
> > Summer settings in my '84 are:
> >
> > L---
> > L---
> > ---R
> > L---
I use those same settings, but turn the fan switch to 2 which actually
gives a nice flow of air from the lower heater vents.
YMMV,
Mr. BZ-only 94 today
>
> At 55 mph, only a gentle waft of air comes from the defrost vents.
> Enough to lift a Kleenex, but nowhere near powerful enough to be
> felt by
> Yours Truly. Besides, when it's 90F outside, I want air moving even
> when
> stopped at a red light. Maybe even more then. Thus a fan.
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
>
>
> Jake de Villiers 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 <mailto: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 <http://www.thebassspa.com>
>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>>
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