Do-It-Yourself Air Conditioning

Do-It-Yourself Air Conditioning FARM SHOP Handy Hints 19-4-32 Here's a way to cool down a shop or other farm building. Mount an old car or truck radiator on a stand and run a cold water line into the top of it and hook up a return line coming out the bottom. Turn on the tap so water runs through the radiator at a trickle. Then set up a fan behind the radiator that blows air through it and out into the area you want to cool. Randy Borchert, Ellendale, Minn., installed a radiator cooling system in his milking parlor using a truck radiator and a squirrel cage fan out of an old furnace. When it gets hot, he just starts water running through the large truck radiator, and flips the switch on the fan. Operation is trouble-free, he notes, and the operating cost minimal. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Randy Borchert, Rt. 1, Box 29, Ellendale, Minn. 56026 (ph 507 455-3255).

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