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Subject:Re: FYI - Venting for mobile refrigerators
From:Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
Date:Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:13:02 -0700

On 7/6/2007 9:55 AM neil wrote:

> That was me!

So what's keeping you?

>
> (and I still haven't had the balls to cut a hole in floor under fridge)

Oh. Well, okay.

> And further to that idea, I thought it would be good to use a manifold
> of some sort through which air would be drawn in "against" frame of
> van. The frame is metal is cool to the touch, so air being drawn
> against it should get cooled down.

I dunno about that -- the frame has to be at the same temperature as the
air around it. Steel is not a great conductor of heat, but it does
transfer heat from your fingertips well enough to feel cool. But still,
it's at ambient temp.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
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