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To: bgill
I can’t find the link but there is a refrigerator made from basically a box with a cloth or burlap draped over.

Old camping technique.

We learned to make them in the Boy Scouts out of orange crates and burlap bags.

They work on the same principle as the "swamp cooler" type air conditioners.

Keep the burlap wet and the evaporation keeps the contents cool.

Something like this:

Just Google "evaoporative cooler" to get some ideas.


90 posted on 05/08/2016 7:39:48 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: Iron Munro

**** “We learned to make them in the Boy Scouts out of orange crates and burlap bags” ****

Finding Burlap these days is tough!


117 posted on 05/08/2016 5:11:40 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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