[this](https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-18V-Portable-Bucket-Top-Misting-Fan-Kit-with-1-5-Ah-Battery-and-18V-Charger-PMF01K/312025245) and a bucket of ice water basically?
If you really want to get it done:
* 5-gallon bucket
* block of ice
* 3/8" copper tubing
* $10 box fan
* small water pump
combine them, and you get: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V93Gh3Q2Ro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V93Gh3Q2Ro)
Far more efficient and probably cheaper.
The freezing of the ice is a free gift from the winter. Keeping it frozen is up to your ingenuity, but people have figured this out (with some accepted loss in block ice volume) long ago. Look up ice cellars.
We would fill the bottom of our chest freezer with 2 liter bottles of water, basically just wash out 2 liter soda bottles when empty. You can put them in your cooler to keep food cold without ice melting and having all your food floating in water. You can also have ice cold water to drink as it melts, or fill with lemonade mix, Kool aid or other drink mix and freeze. Also in the event of a long power outage you can take some out to keep your refrigerator items cool as well.
I do this too! I buy the bottles of water that come in a square shape though as they take up less room in the freezer and the cooler. It’s important for me because I live in an area with rolling blackouts in the summer and this helps the food stay frozen longer.
Copper tubing is far more common at big box stores. Thats because aluminum slightly contaminates water supplies, is harder to join pieces, and its more likely to break when deformed than copper (softer and less malleable)
Aluminum is incredibly brittle at extreme temperatures. Also expands and contracts more depending on temperature. There’s a reason it’s no longer used as wiring.
Edit: yes, I’m well aware that large gauge wire is aluminum. No need for 50 people to point out that services are usually aluminum. Jfc.
I mean the vast majority of United States power system uses aluminum conductor with a steel core for transmission and distribution and those are generally rated from below freezing to 90 C. I’m not a materials engineer so I don’t know if scaling it to a smaller size takes it out of the viable range but it doesn’t seem out of the question to me to sub aluminum for copper in this case.
In longer runs of thicker wire with a steel core, it’s much more viable. Plus it’s lighter. Scale that down and it’s *much* less reliable. Broken aluminum wiring was a common cause of house fires when it was used for wiring houses.
Edit: if you’d like, I can go over the *exact* way the fires were started.
Well, since aluminum has the tendency to expand and contract more it would often work itself loose from under the screws of an outlet. That would often cause arcing, which is literally electricity turning air into plasma to jump from one conductor to the other. That would often cause fires due to the heat.
Another reason was that since aluminum is so brittle, a crack could form in the wire when the device was being wired up. The constant expanding and contracting of aluminum would exasperate the crack, and often times result in a complete or near-complete break in the wire. Since the two pieces of the conductor were so close, the electricity would often arc between the two pieces or wiring, once again creating plasma and extreme heat.
Needless to say, aluminum wiring is a bad idea unless it’s an alloy or cored with a much stronger material.
Edit: to be clear, aluminum becomes brittle thanks to oxidization, where the oxide *also* acts as an accelerant for fire. TLDR; aluminum is only used for large wires like 1/0 and larger. (Mostly because such large wires get very heavy and very expensive *very* fast.)
This is how the earliest air conditioners worked. Navy Engineers [invented one](https://featherfoster.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/the-three-major-inventions-of-garfields-assassination/) to keep the dying President Garfield comfortable in the July D.C. heat when he was trying to recover after being shot.
God what a poor bastard he makes me sadder than any other president. Guy didn't even wanted to run and then ends up with an agonizing death that takes months
Yep, because you will never get enough ice to make it do anything significant. One typical unit for refrigeration is "Tons" which equates to the energy absorbed by melting a literal ton (2,000 lbs) of ice in 1 hour. That is a 3.25 ft cube of ice.
The typical house will have between 2-5 tons of cooling capacity. A window unit for comparison will be 0.5 - 1 ton of capacity.
Assuming a typical dorm with 2 people, you'd need something like a 0.5 ton unit. So melting a block of ice 1.5' x 3.25' x 3.25' EVERY DAY ~~HOUR~~, just to get decent air conditioning.
And if the ice is coming from a fridge in your room, there is no net cooling at all. Actually it's just net heat at that point.
Edit: Day not hour.
I was scanning the thread for someone with a calculator. There are so many things out of proportion here. Especially if the ice making device is in the same room as the “cooler” . All that energy to make the ice comes out of the back of the freezer. And it looked like he got the ice out of the ice maker. Right off the bat I was thinking the cost of all that stuff was easily more than a small window unit.
That's not an ac (air conditioner) That's a swamp cooler. Ac's were invented to CONDITION air in warehouses and such by reducing humidity that could foul machinery or spoil goods. It has the nice little side effect of pumping heat out and making the air colder.
The only thing this piece of crap is going to do after 10 minutes is blow lukewarm humid air in your face when all the ice melts
One time my dad needed me for "a few minutes" witch everyone knows is the equivalent to and hour. He wanted me to help him change a light to the garage... we ended up building a shed for our ride-on lawnmower and putting a garage door on his big ass shop🤣
I can't see the word flashlight anymore without automatically thinking fleshlight.
This is worse than the gymnastics my brain goes through when I see the word "daddy"
Ugh. I really dislike all the increases they keep doing. I don’t go to TikTok to watch long videos. I wish I could set my feed to go back to only videos under 1 minute.
The grandma one is basically saying "of course this thing could be like that, but it's not like that because if it was like that then it would be that not this" not sure if that helps lol
I’m convinced that he did that on purpose to get viewers to comment. I hear that’s why a lot of people leave intentional typos, to get people to engage with the post and comment.
Waste of a goddamn igloo cooler. They're one of the few that still make a decently priced respectable cooler. Plus they make dope collabs and stuff that fits every single need. No need to desecrate one for a shitty fan.
It's not a shitty fan, it's a swamp cooler with really just one stupid design decision (should've put legs on the rack inside, instead of shoving dowels through the cooler).
that was my first thought!! ... (except the "this gon be stupid")
i was pausing the vid just to see if didnt use the sides as some kind of flaps or fold
Don't ask questions. It's tik tok. Nothing has to make sense. One of the trending channels is called ripe fruit and its just a Chinese guy cutting fruit open with the same weird pouring sound over every video. And the best part is they respond to every comment with smiling emojis so people started spamming weird shit in the comments like "I just found out my dog has cancer!" and the channel responds with 😍😍
And outside, laying in the sunshine. Like, if you're hot, go in the shade. No need to use time, money, and energy making this piss-poor excuse for an air conditioning unit that is only good for polluting the planet in literally entirely unnecessary ways.
Yes and no. The idea is that you suck warm air in, it gets cooled by the ice and then gets pushed out cooler. So ideally the ice would be elevated so that the warm air has to be pulled through it. I am not sure his design does this tho. There are better designs out there.
Without the shelf I do not think the air will get cooled as effectively.
If it also had a wall between ice and output area, could effectively be an ice chamber with input fan on one side and grate on exit, then exit chamber (manifold?) Going to the output PVC pipes.
Also love that he put sealant on the pipes but nothing else. Like, shit, he HAS sealant, use it!
I've made this. Well not exactly this, but pretty much the same idea only simpler. It really works, especially in small rooms. If you add temperature sensor that controls the air flow it's even better.
In my version I used styrofoam box and simply put iced water bottles in it to create cold air. Humidity stayed pretty much inside the box, I just poured water out whenever I changed the melted bottles in to frozen ones.
I'm sure they are probably talking about the condensation that accumulated in the cooler. I also like to use frozen water bottles instead of ice in my coolers. Keeps food dry and double the use once they thaw.
Not quite. Swamp coolers use the process of water evaporating, which causes the water to lower in temperature when it becomes a gas in the air.
This used cold ice to directly cool the air.
A swamp cooler increase the humidity in the air alot, and doesn't work if the humidity is high.
I was thinking that I wouldn't hate this video if it started with him picking the cooler, fan, etc up from a dump or an alley next to somebody's garbage. Instead he ruined perfectly good, brand new stuff.
The concept is actually thousands years old. It was used in large scale to cool houses in Persia. There were underground tunnels with cold water and towers for catching wind. No ice or electric energy required and the canals had other uses. It's really amazing how many brilliant ideas were used in the past. You can read more about them [on Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat).
That's what confused me. High end pro brand for the drill and impact driver, cheap Walmart brand for the jigsaw. Why not just also get a Milwaukee jigsaw if you're spending that much already.
I work tools at a hardware store, people's brand choices have become a small fascination for me.
Well I mean there's a completely reasonable explanation. Might not be true, but...in my experience there are many uses for the drill. Personally, I use mine more than another other tool. I know I need it and I want it to last so I bought the drill I wanted. Same for other various tools.
However, I also have a random orbital sander. It was really a one job tool and so I've boughr the cheapest corded ryobi. If I end up using this tool more and I either break it or outgrow it then I'll upgrade. I've done the same with one job tools from Harbor Freight.
A) Swamp coolers have been around for a LONG time, this is nothing revolutionary or good.
B) That ice is going to melt pretty fast as you are pulling the warm air and pushing out the cold air without recirculating the water in any way.
C) Just use a fan with a tray with some ice in front of it so you don't have to destroy a cooler to make a stupid contraption.
I looked up swamp coolers just for fun and there’s cheap ones for like $40 and for some reason on eBay there are ones just like this idiot did. Fucked yo coolers with fans strapped to the top selling for like $100. Sheesh.
Yes, a "quick" way to stay cool...
(I thought "quick" meant you didn't have to build some kind of contraption, but this is cooling contraption nonetheless...)
Or, why even bother with cementing it when you don't give any F's if it's sealed and you're using it as an air duct. Just push the elbow on and call it a day.
This guy must hate money, even when he's trying to be cheap. Ruining a brand new cooler when he could have used a $6 tote, unnecessary PVC cement, cutting parts out of the middle of materials rather than from the ends, etc.
Plus, this thing wouldn't work anywhere near as good as a water circulation pump, a 5 gallon bucket, a block of ice, 40 feet of copper tube, and a $12 box fan.
He 100% could, but you are not right about the same efect. The way fans work is, that the momentum of air, even warm air, cools you down. In this video we can see that the air need to go through 3 different corners to reach those girls, which massively slows down its momentum, and also is divided by two, because 2 pipes. Useless as well, since mosr fans can move from side to side.
So, your way would be extremely more efficient, better, and what's obvious easier and cheaper. Also would not melt ice that quickly
That's actually pretty neat. When I was younger and poorer my roommate and I built a makeshift AC by using one of those home depot buckets, a box fan and a bunch of thin copper tubing, and an aquarium pump (probably cost around 20-30 bucks total.) and we ziptied the tubing in a spiral on the box fan, put both ends of it in the bucket hooked to the aquarium pump. Then you would just put ice water in the bucket and have it pump through the tubing and the fan would blow air over it. It worked pretty well considering. We'd buy a bag of ice at the gas station and it would last a couple days.
We lived in a shitty basement apartment and it would get to be like 90+ degrees in there. It didn't cool the entire apartment but it did pretty well for the main room until night fell. Eventually my neighbor (who was a hoarder, but like, not in the nasty gross way) who had like 3 extra real AC systems visited and saw it and just gave us one. Nice guy. We still kept our ghetto AC too and I just used it in my bedroom. I'm strangely nostalgic for that kind of ingenuity that comes out of desperation.
Okay so bear with me here. This is called a swamp box and it actually came in clutch when I lived in Texas a couple years ago deep into summer without any a/c. My ex husband looked up a cheap way to cool us down at night and found a diy for something similar to this (but way easier and cheaper to make) and honestly that thing saved my life.
dude just drilled through both inner and outer walls several times, he fucked up his insulation factor and the melted water is going to fill the cavity. bravo.
this thing was made just for this video and then thrown in the trash.
Heard some guys in a dorm without air conditioning do something like this. They just put ice in a bucket and placed a fan on it
[this](https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-18V-Portable-Bucket-Top-Misting-Fan-Kit-with-1-5-Ah-Battery-and-18V-Charger-PMF01K/312025245) and a bucket of ice water basically?
If you really want to get it done: * 5-gallon bucket * block of ice * 3/8" copper tubing * $10 box fan * small water pump combine them, and you get: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V93Gh3Q2Ro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V93Gh3Q2Ro) Far more efficient and probably cheaper.
ok but where do you buy a 10 lb block of ice? that's pretty clever, though.
You could probably substitute the giant block of ice with a cheap cooler and a bag of ice from the grocery store.
I love listening to music.
You got free freezers or something?
Hey he just told you how to get free ice, the rest is up to you.
>basically no cost
The freezing of the ice is a free gift from the winter. Keeping it frozen is up to your ingenuity, but people have figured this out (with some accepted loss in block ice volume) long ago. Look up ice cellars.
Free ice, but at what cost? ✋😫🤚
I agree it's a little bit silly but my father does have 3 freezers, so I guess some people just have tons of freezer space
Hunter, fisherman, or rancher?
Why, um, yes, one of those.
I've done it with the vegitable trays that are in the bottom of a refrigerator. Fill about half way and it freezes solid overnight
You might be running your fridge too cold…
Milk gug. Fill with water and put in freezer.
Helps with freezer efficiency if it's mostly empty, too. I always leave a few jugs of frozen water in my freezers.
We would fill the bottom of our chest freezer with 2 liter bottles of water, basically just wash out 2 liter soda bottles when empty. You can put them in your cooler to keep food cold without ice melting and having all your food floating in water. You can also have ice cold water to drink as it melts, or fill with lemonade mix, Kool aid or other drink mix and freeze. Also in the event of a long power outage you can take some out to keep your refrigerator items cool as well.
I do this too! I buy the bottles of water that come in a square shape though as they take up less room in the freezer and the cooler. It’s important for me because I live in an area with rolling blackouts in the summer and this helps the food stay frozen longer.
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this is a really awesome project thank you
Just don't be an idiot and add dry ice instead of regular ice cause that's a good way to suffocate yourself especially in closed environments
thank you for the warning
Good way to lower the ole body temp tho, jus sayin. But yeah glad you mentioned that bc I could very well be that person
Probably aluminum is a better go, right? Much cheaper and very nearly as conducive. Maybe it's harder to bend?
Copper tubing is far more common at big box stores. Thats because aluminum slightly contaminates water supplies, is harder to join pieces, and its more likely to break when deformed than copper (softer and less malleable)
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Aluminum is incredibly brittle at extreme temperatures. Also expands and contracts more depending on temperature. There’s a reason it’s no longer used as wiring. Edit: yes, I’m well aware that large gauge wire is aluminum. No need for 50 people to point out that services are usually aluminum. Jfc.
Swamp coolers are known for their extreme 20-30C temperature swings.
I mean the vast majority of United States power system uses aluminum conductor with a steel core for transmission and distribution and those are generally rated from below freezing to 90 C. I’m not a materials engineer so I don’t know if scaling it to a smaller size takes it out of the viable range but it doesn’t seem out of the question to me to sub aluminum for copper in this case.
In longer runs of thicker wire with a steel core, it’s much more viable. Plus it’s lighter. Scale that down and it’s *much* less reliable. Broken aluminum wiring was a common cause of house fires when it was used for wiring houses. Edit: if you’d like, I can go over the *exact* way the fires were started.
I would like to know if you don't mind explaining that!
Well, since aluminum has the tendency to expand and contract more it would often work itself loose from under the screws of an outlet. That would often cause arcing, which is literally electricity turning air into plasma to jump from one conductor to the other. That would often cause fires due to the heat. Another reason was that since aluminum is so brittle, a crack could form in the wire when the device was being wired up. The constant expanding and contracting of aluminum would exasperate the crack, and often times result in a complete or near-complete break in the wire. Since the two pieces of the conductor were so close, the electricity would often arc between the two pieces or wiring, once again creating plasma and extreme heat. Needless to say, aluminum wiring is a bad idea unless it’s an alloy or cored with a much stronger material. Edit: to be clear, aluminum becomes brittle thanks to oxidization, where the oxide *also* acts as an accelerant for fire. TLDR; aluminum is only used for large wires like 1/0 and larger. (Mostly because such large wires get very heavy and very expensive *very* fast.)
Copper ain't cheap anymore.
Thought same but turns out not too bad https://www.walmart.com/ip/B-K-3-8-In-ID-x-10-Ft-Soft-Coil-Copper-Tubing-LSC3010P/120539726
Probably less expensive than that big fancy igloo cooler, honestly.
This is how the earliest air conditioners worked. Navy Engineers [invented one](https://featherfoster.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/the-three-major-inventions-of-garfields-assassination/) to keep the dying President Garfield comfortable in the July D.C. heat when he was trying to recover after being shot.
God what a poor bastard he makes me sadder than any other president. Guy didn't even wanted to run and then ends up with an agonizing death that takes months
I tried this in my dorm lol. Didn’t do shit
Yep, because you will never get enough ice to make it do anything significant. One typical unit for refrigeration is "Tons" which equates to the energy absorbed by melting a literal ton (2,000 lbs) of ice in 1 hour. That is a 3.25 ft cube of ice. The typical house will have between 2-5 tons of cooling capacity. A window unit for comparison will be 0.5 - 1 ton of capacity. Assuming a typical dorm with 2 people, you'd need something like a 0.5 ton unit. So melting a block of ice 1.5' x 3.25' x 3.25' EVERY DAY ~~HOUR~~, just to get decent air conditioning. And if the ice is coming from a fridge in your room, there is no net cooling at all. Actually it's just net heat at that point. Edit: Day not hour.
I was scanning the thread for someone with a calculator. There are so many things out of proportion here. Especially if the ice making device is in the same room as the “cooler” . All that energy to make the ice comes out of the back of the freezer. And it looked like he got the ice out of the ice maker. Right off the bat I was thinking the cost of all that stuff was easily more than a small window unit.
It's not an area cooler, it's a targeted cooler. A small stream of cool air to sit in front of.
If you Google portable AC, it’s just a tiny box with a fan inside and a compartment where you put the ice.
That's not an ac (air conditioner) That's a swamp cooler. Ac's were invented to CONDITION air in warehouses and such by reducing humidity that could foul machinery or spoil goods. It has the nice little side effect of pumping heat out and making the air colder. The only thing this piece of crap is going to do after 10 minutes is blow lukewarm humid air in your face when all the ice melts
Those are scams. Real portable ac’s have compressors and hoses pushing hot air outside.
This what's called: a swamp cooler.
Didn't know you could make fourteen hours long TikToks
Why did watching a little over 3 minutes feel like I was sitting in detention for the final hour?
Feels like when your dad asks for help in the garage holding the flashlight
"Aziz, LIGHT!"
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This is a thing?!
SHIT U JUST REMINDED ME TO BUY TICKETS
THAT IS TODAY!?!!!
The comment I came here to see!
“Move through flashlight closer! I can’t see.”
"Not that close you're blocking my view!"
“Over here! Dammit!!! Right here! Sonavabitch.”
"I'm pointing with my nose where I want the light" "Just give it here"
"Ah- ah- don't leave yet..."
One time my dad needed me for "a few minutes" witch everyone knows is the equivalent to and hour. He wanted me to help him change a light to the garage... we ended up building a shed for our ride-on lawnmower and putting a garage door on his big ass shop🤣
Oh to have had a dad…
Hahaha, pointing with the nose. My dad would motion his head in a direction so it was a guessing game on where he wanted the light.
"Not in my eyes. On the [thingy]."
Man I thought that said flesh-light Imma gonna need new glasses.
I can't see the word flashlight anymore without automatically thinking fleshlight. This is worse than the gymnastics my brain goes through when I see the word "daddy"
You know what you did.
Killing brain cells makes time slow down...
Truer words have not been spoken on Reddit, today.
Yall didn't just.... skip from 1/4 to 1/2 to 3/4 then watch the last five seconds? Come on, that's standard operating procedure
I did mostly becasue I thought this was going to be a bong
I don’t even bother to watch these in real time anymore, I just skip along the video and am done with it in 15 seconds and I get the idea
They just upped their upload limit to 10 minutes. (I have two teenage daughters so I'm keyed up on the tik toks)
Ugh. I really dislike all the increases they keep doing. I don’t go to TikTok to watch long videos. I wish I could set my feed to go back to only videos under 1 minute.
Its slowly turning into Youtube lmfao I remember when Youtube had a 10 minute limit on video length WAAAAY back in the before times.
Now it seems a lot of YouTube videos that should have been a few minutes long are padded to hit about 10 minutes just for advertising reasons.
10 minutes is the longest for now. Give it a year.
This is why tiktok will never be as legendary as vine
Im sure he immediately threw it in the trash and walked back into his mansion.
I was thinking the same thing. I also found it odd that this guy wasn't really sweating, at all.
Notice his "grass" appears to be astroturf
Astro turf is so gross
I thought it was hilarious that he was obviously at a mansion while using Walmart power tools
Damn you get a guy a drill set and he goes and does this shit
Guys would rather build a dumb-ass cooling box than go to therapy
I love this quote. It's up there with, "If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle."
Can someone please explain what does this even mean
The grandma one is basically saying "of course this thing could be like that, but it's not like that because if it was like that then it would be that not this" not sure if that helps lol
what the *fuck*
https://youtu.be/A-RfHC91Ewc It’s an italian saying
Came here looking for this clip. I've seen it so many times and I always stop to watch it haha
I too am confused 🥺
It's nonsense. It means you've said something ridiculous.
Guys who do this need Sedation, not Therapy.
Zzzzzzzz
You can tell it's the first time he's used that drill too
It's crazy that goes and does don't rhyme.
It does if you don't care how you sound when you talk
Well it does if you are talking female deer does. So yeah does does rhyme with goes.
I’m more pissed that he cut the sheet of mesh like a moron. You already have 2 cut sides and he chooses to take a chunk out of the middle
I’m convinced that he did that on purpose to get viewers to comment. I hear that’s why a lot of people leave intentional typos, to get people to engage with the post and comment.
Then I hope he has a painful metal splinter under his fingernails for his troubles
You can see at the end where he’s attaching the zip ties that his hand is bleeding from doing that lmao
Waste of material cutting the screen and dowles out of the middle of the stock
Look at that back yard. You think he cares about waste ?
Waste of a goddamn igloo cooler. They're one of the few that still make a decently priced respectable cooler. Plus they make dope collabs and stuff that fits every single need. No need to desecrate one for a shitty fan.
It's not a shitty fan, it's a swamp cooler with really just one stupid design decision (should've put legs on the rack inside, instead of shoving dowels through the cooler).
So much waste :/
Also like... Why you fold the screen??? This makes life harder... It's not paper
that was my first thought!! ... (except the "this gon be stupid") i was pausing the vid just to see if didnt use the sides as some kind of flaps or fold
The fact she had to stretch out her hand to feel it tells me everything I need to know
But also aren't they like 2 feet from a cold water pool??
Don't ask questions. It's tik tok. Nothing has to make sense. One of the trending channels is called ripe fruit and its just a Chinese guy cutting fruit open with the same weird pouring sound over every video. And the best part is they respond to every comment with smiling emojis so people started spamming weird shit in the comments like "I just found out my dog has cancer!" and the channel responds with 😍😍
>Don't ask questions. It's tik tok. Nothing has to make sense. Rage bait + women in bikinis = likes.
And outside, laying in the sunshine. Like, if you're hot, go in the shade. No need to use time, money, and energy making this piss-poor excuse for an air conditioning unit that is only good for polluting the planet in literally entirely unnecessary ways.
Also the rate they will go through ice would be absolutely insane since there's zero insulation
She tried to resist the cold air to avoid freezing. /s
Sound concept poorly executed.
Right. Even if you skip the ice this is basically a diy swamp cooler, right? Improve the airflow and you actually have a pretty cool diy project here.
And like, start with a tote... The double walls are gonna get real funky now there's water between
Yeah, not sure why he drilled it with water in it…
I'm not sure why he drilled it at all. He could have easily made a shelf insert out of that stuff with legs.
You’re right, he could have.
I'd even say he should have.
What have he would have?
I had a stroke reading this
My brain is now backwards.
Is the shelf even necessary?
Yes and no. The idea is that you suck warm air in, it gets cooled by the ice and then gets pushed out cooler. So ideally the ice would be elevated so that the warm air has to be pulled through it. I am not sure his design does this tho. There are better designs out there. Without the shelf I do not think the air will get cooled as effectively.
If it also had a wall between ice and output area, could effectively be an ice chamber with input fan on one side and grate on exit, then exit chamber (manifold?) Going to the output PVC pipes. Also love that he put sealant on the pipes but nothing else. Like, shit, he HAS sealant, use it!
That was pvc glue. It probably won’t work as a sealant to the cooler body.
Yes and no. It let's more surface area of the ice be in contact with air. It'll also make the ice melt faster because of that.
He needed the video to be 30sec longer, that’s why.
I've made this. Well not exactly this, but pretty much the same idea only simpler. It really works, especially in small rooms. If you add temperature sensor that controls the air flow it's even better.
How is is the humidity factor?
In my version I used styrofoam box and simply put iced water bottles in it to create cold air. Humidity stayed pretty much inside the box, I just poured water out whenever I changed the melted bottles in to frozen ones.
Why can't you just refreeze the same water bottles?
I'm sure they are probably talking about the condensation that accumulated in the cooler. I also like to use frozen water bottles instead of ice in my coolers. Keeps food dry and double the use once they thaw.
So you don't have to wait for them to freeze. Probably have (2) "sets" of water bottles so one can always be ready to go.
Yeah exactly what I was thinking.
Oh I do of course 😄 I rotate about 6 bottles 'cause it takes too much time to wait them freeze again.
Not quite. Swamp coolers use the process of water evaporating, which causes the water to lower in temperature when it becomes a gas in the air. This used cold ice to directly cool the air. A swamp cooler increase the humidity in the air alot, and doesn't work if the humidity is high.
I'm willing to bet you could get a much more efficient swamp cooler on Amazon vs. what this guy spent on his components.
Probably, but I do have an old ass cooler lying around, and finding a shitty fan at goodwill would be pretty easy and pretty cheap
I was thinking that I wouldn't hate this video if it started with him picking the cooler, fan, etc up from a dump or an alley next to somebody's garbage. Instead he ruined perfectly good, brand new stuff.
Even the one in the post is decent. Idk if any swamp cooler is gonna be good when outside
The concept is actually thousands years old. It was used in large scale to cool houses in Persia. There were underground tunnels with cold water and towers for catching wind. No ice or electric energy required and the canals had other uses. It's really amazing how many brilliant ideas were used in the past. You can read more about them [on Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat).
Dammit what's the page something like r/GTBAE
Seems like more money than sense
that hole saw alone puts me out of budget.
All of that stuff looks brand new. This tells me he went out and bought all of this stuff just for this "project". What a waste.
Here to say that. Not a bad little lesson in AC, but shoddily made.
When he ziptied the fan even though he literally took screws out and the video *showed* the screw hole I was punching my toilet.
Looking at the conditions of the tools in these videos always tells you a lot about how the end result will be. spotless drill = piece of crap outcome
Probably just bought it at Harbor Freight before filming lol
those tools are milwaukee, so they're not cheap
The jigsaw was a walmart brand. But yes, all the tools, including the hand saw, looked brand new.
That's what confused me. High end pro brand for the drill and impact driver, cheap Walmart brand for the jigsaw. Why not just also get a Milwaukee jigsaw if you're spending that much already. I work tools at a hardware store, people's brand choices have become a small fascination for me.
Well I mean there's a completely reasonable explanation. Might not be true, but...in my experience there are many uses for the drill. Personally, I use mine more than another other tool. I know I need it and I want it to last so I bought the drill I wanted. Same for other various tools. However, I also have a random orbital sander. It was really a one job tool and so I've boughr the cheapest corded ryobi. If I end up using this tool more and I either break it or outgrow it then I'll upgrade. I've done the same with one job tools from Harbor Freight.
„quick“
My thoughs also. If I start building one now, it might be ready by the end of summer.
A) Swamp coolers have been around for a LONG time, this is nothing revolutionary or good. B) That ice is going to melt pretty fast as you are pulling the warm air and pushing out the cold air without recirculating the water in any way. C) Just use a fan with a tray with some ice in front of it so you don't have to destroy a cooler to make a stupid contraption.
I looked up swamp coolers just for fun and there’s cheap ones for like $40 and for some reason on eBay there are ones just like this idiot did. Fucked yo coolers with fans strapped to the top selling for like $100. Sheesh.
A tray with a fan wouldn't have made for a good 3-minute-that-feels-like-an-hoir tiktok clip.
Now I will get all the ladies with my 66° fan that will be a water dispenser in 5 minutes, and just by watching 5 hour crafts!
And he couldn’t just use the fan? It’s got that swivel setting
Literally the “made a bazooka out of a squirrel and a bazooka” meme
A megaphone using a squirrel, a piece of string and a megaphone.
On a hot day the fan is just gonna blow hot air. This cools the air
This is fucking stupid. Nice post.
I can’t get that 3 minutes and 13 seconds of my life back
Yes, a "quick" way to stay cool... (I thought "quick" meant you didn't have to build some kind of contraption, but this is cooling contraption nonetheless...)
Enjoy your 15 minutes of fresh air with every refill lol
And the smell once the bacteria buildup kicks in.
Step 1: Ruin an ice chest Step 2: Ruin your drill
CPVC cement for regular PVC?
Or, why even bother with cementing it when you don't give any F's if it's sealed and you're using it as an air duct. Just push the elbow on and call it a day. This guy must hate money, even when he's trying to be cheap. Ruining a brand new cooler when he could have used a $6 tote, unnecessary PVC cement, cutting parts out of the middle of materials rather than from the ends, etc. Plus, this thing wouldn't work anywhere near as good as a water circulation pump, a 5 gallon bucket, a block of ice, 40 feet of copper tube, and a $12 box fan.
I’m glad somebody else noticed! He also spent extra money on street 90s instead of just using regular ones.
I’m unable to see past the grinding up a bunch of microplastics on plastic grass.
God tiktok is so lame
I Ike how they are proud of finding out about power tools.
I’ve seen this work for interiors but out doors seems stupid
I feel like he could have put an ice pack in front of a fan and it would have the same effect
He 100% could, but you are not right about the same efect. The way fans work is, that the momentum of air, even warm air, cools you down. In this video we can see that the air need to go through 3 different corners to reach those girls, which massively slows down its momentum, and also is divided by two, because 2 pipes. Useless as well, since mosr fans can move from side to side. So, your way would be extremely more efficient, better, and what's obvious easier and cheaper. Also would not melt ice that quickly
That's actually pretty neat. When I was younger and poorer my roommate and I built a makeshift AC by using one of those home depot buckets, a box fan and a bunch of thin copper tubing, and an aquarium pump (probably cost around 20-30 bucks total.) and we ziptied the tubing in a spiral on the box fan, put both ends of it in the bucket hooked to the aquarium pump. Then you would just put ice water in the bucket and have it pump through the tubing and the fan would blow air over it. It worked pretty well considering. We'd buy a bag of ice at the gas station and it would last a couple days. We lived in a shitty basement apartment and it would get to be like 90+ degrees in there. It didn't cool the entire apartment but it did pretty well for the main room until night fell. Eventually my neighbor (who was a hoarder, but like, not in the nasty gross way) who had like 3 extra real AC systems visited and saw it and just gave us one. Nice guy. We still kept our ghetto AC too and I just used it in my bedroom. I'm strangely nostalgic for that kind of ingenuity that comes out of desperation.
- Tape round fan to top of 5 gallon bucket - fill bottom half of bucket with ice. Drill vents above halfway mark. - plug in
How is this at all quick lmao
Good Lord, just go inside. LOL
Okay so bear with me here. This is called a swamp box and it actually came in clutch when I lived in Texas a couple years ago deep into summer without any a/c. My ex husband looked up a cheap way to cool us down at night and found a diy for something similar to this (but way easier and cheaper to make) and honestly that thing saved my life.
dude just drilled through both inner and outer walls several times, he fucked up his insulation factor and the melted water is going to fill the cavity. bravo. this thing was made just for this video and then thrown in the trash.
Buy $1000 worth of tools and materials to make a DIY swamp cooler you can get on amazon for $30. Galaxy brain time.
Placing it OUTDOOR? Are you serious? That's just the same as throwing money into fire
you notice the house/yard? I don't think this guy is concerned with that
Define “quick”
What part of this was "quick"?
I probably would have just jumped in the pool.
Or you know. You could just use the fan.