On 7/6/07, Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/6/2007 9:55 AM neil wrote:
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> > That was me!
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> So what's keeping you?
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> >
> > (and I still haven't had the balls to cut a hole in floor under fridge)
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> Oh. Well, okay.
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> > 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.
>

Actually I'm correcting myself here.

:)

Part of the thought was that if warmer air got blown under van, or if
parked in new spot with hot pavement, that the temp being drawn in
might be kept consistently lower if using "heavy" metal of van
undercarriage or for that matter a metal tube. If not done this way,
the opposite scenario would possibly be that the opening on intake
tube was pointed downward to pavement sucking up warmer air.

(all this coming from a dude what barely got out of HS!)

(And all this coming from someone who may have too much time on his hands!)

Neil.

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> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
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