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From: Jeff Kennedy <jeff@JEFFKENNEDY.ORG>

> Thanks Wes, its timely as I spent 5 hours driving through Arizona this
> afternoon. 112 in phoenix, no AC. I was using a regular spray bottle,
> it really worked but a finer spray seems nice. But I needed to use it
> almost constantly.
>
> ANyone else have tricks for staying cool? Evaporative cooling works
> great here, I'm wondering if there's some way to rig it up to to blow
> out the vents. Maybe you could put the outdoor fan mister -
> http://tinyurl.com/6b4ox7
> - inside the ducting? Theres some pretty nice looking units at
> swampy.net but they're expensive.
>
> cheers-
> Jeff
>
> On Jun 14, 2008, at 2:39 PM, pickle vanagon wrote:
>
> > Since a/c repair has been pushed back till next summer for me, and the
> > weather is really heating up around here, I was looking for some
> > sort of
> > personal evaporative cooling device. Previously I had tried the one
> > the
> > sharper image sells, that you wear around your neck, but it didn't
> > really
> > seem powerful enough to be that useful. I just got a misty mate
> > though, and
> > it seems really great. Website is mistymate.com I got one of the
> > clearance
> > models (the "elite") for $20 and it seems to work really well,
> > especially
> > with air blowing on you from the windows. The mist it puts out is
> > really
> > fine. I think the functionality of all the models is pretty much
> > the same.
> >
> > Just thought that others without a/c or those avoiding its use to
> > get better
> > mpg might be interested.
> >
> > -Wes
> >
> >
> > Incidentally, anybody tried one of these on a vanagon?:
> > http://www.classicaire.com/
> >
> > Seems like it would be a mpg killer.
> >