Last minute TECH Build your own swamp cooler

I was hoping to have something really cool for Tech week, had a neat
custom antenna install but didn't get finished product pics quick enough
and didn't want to let a Tech week go by without contributing, so here's
a reprinted article I found in a 1951 Popular Mechanics book on how to
make your own swamp cooler, hope someone can use it, it's quite
interesting to see how this one's made.

Please bear with me if the scale of the pics is poor, I might have to edit
them to make the text readable. I'll do my best.

 

wow, neat! people sure had a lot of free time available before they invented computers, eh?

where do you get copper screen and monk's cloth?

 

Yeah, I thought the use of expended .32 Calibur shells was a neat touch too.

 

I think I wanna play yard chess in the 100 degree heat!

 

It's probably yard chess or building a swamp cooler. I wonder how many of those were built?

 

Screw the swamp cooler.

Post the article on how to get a hot wife to wear a skirt and move my **** around the backyard!

 

My uncle had one of these on his house up north in Brownwood near Abeline. The humidity down here on the Gulf Coast is so high, it would literally RAIN INSIDE the car if you used one of these.

 

I dont own a .32.. I wonder how .357 casings will work....

 

I think they used drawings for all of these ideas because they never really built them.

 

Hahahahahaha

 

Post up the dashboard tray!

 

I'm not that ambitious. I'll just build the Dashboard Tray.

 

cool idea but anything with copper in the ****ing tweakers will steal it for a high!

 

that is way more complicated than the vintage one on my car. I can't find a pic right now but it is one of the cylinder kind, basically a drum of mesh that you rotate through the water every so often. Like the ones you see on Bombs someone said recently.

 

Cool Man.....LOL........

 

Just noticed the author's name. Any relation to our own Jim Sibley? Cool tech...