Home Built Air Conditioner

Home built air conditioner FARM HOME Cars 16-5-9 "You can cool your house with the same water you use to water your lawn," says Roy Ketteler, Concord, Mich., who made a nifty air cooler using an old car radiator and a box fan. He mounted a radiator on a wooden stand that's high enough to reach a window on the main floor of his house. A box fan also mounts up on the stand, positioned behind the radiator. Next, he simply connects up a garden hose running from the faucet to the lower radiator hose and then hooks up another hose to the upper radiator hose outlet, running it out to a sprinkler on the lawn. Water is pushed up through the radiator from the bottom and out the upper hose to the lawn. (If there's no sprinkling to be done, you can drain the water away.) "We just open a window and set the radiator in front of it and let the cool air blow into the house. It takes the place of an air conditioner," says Roy. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, 6401 ParsonsRd.,Concord,Mich. 49234 (ph 517 524-7281).

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