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By:ancient kayaker
Date: 7/11/2012, 10:23 pm

: This also works for personal cooling here in Texas. I put the boxed
: squirrel cage fan on something about waist height, then point it
: where I am working. The only problem is the flow is very limited
: in area, if I move I loose the blast of air. Next upgrade will
: be to get one of the misters that hook up to your hose pointed
: into the inlet of the fan. The evaporating mist will take the
: temperature down 10-15 degrees. Might be a problem if I am doing
: serious tight fitting wood work. The wood might swell a little.
: FYI if you are in a humid environment this will not work well or at
: all. It will work best in New Mexico/ Arizona with really dry
: air.

: Marc

Perhaps you should put a bid in to NASA for one of those astronaut suits which the built-in cooling systems . . .

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