Cleopatra Jones

Yeah I want to try different ice variations. Big blocks vs crushed ice with and without water. I'll try it throughout the week if I don't get lazy. I'm curious to see what has the potential to work the best. ol' 320: I thought of a couple of the 90 degree PVC on there but since this is all new and a work in progress we'll see how this works out. Just finished and I'm going to test it in Stanley shortly. It's motherland hot out there so the conditions are perfect :) The cooler was only $20 so if I decide to try two corners I'll just get another. So the warden took this picture of me mocking up my cutting lines. It's his tools I'm using so he's the warden. I told him I get photo approval before that gets posted anywhere but it looks ok. We went to Home Depot to get some L brackets to hold the PVC and fan in place and caulked around the PVC. Got it sitting in the sun to cure right now. Turns out the hole I cut for the fan was a better fit for the PVC. The fan just sits around the hole so no caulking necessary. About to grab some lunch and then I'll get this over to Stanley and try it out. More to come......

Put the PVC and fan on the lid and drew my outline with a sharpie. Got the holes cut

Sabersaw! Thanks thisismatt :) The ball and chain said the air would be cooler if we let the water and ice together. I want to try both and see. Had to make a quick run to home depot so I'm getting back to this.

Ok here's the list o' shit 4" 12 volt vehicle fan with stepless speed regulation by Zone Tech. 4" PVC 45 degree bend. Did 45 degree instead of 90 degree like in the videos I've seen because it takes less effort to push air through. 48 quart Coleman cooler Drill and jigsaw although my husband just informed me that he's not allowed to use the term jigsaw anymore. He and his coworkers have to call it something else, but he forgets what, because jig is racist. Since I'm half black I'm going to use the term jigsaw because I can. And so can you cause that shit is just ridiculous. People so sensitive these days. Poor fragile things. Ugh!

Draker: I only had it in the Pathfinder for maybe 10-15 minutes. I just wanted to see how well the fan blew the cool air out. I thought it was doing a pretty good job. I had it up in the front seat with me and I did notice a difference in temp in just that amount of time. Stanley is half the size of Thadeus so I have high hopes for this. Angela: Just for my quick test I bought a couple bags of ice and put them in the cooler. I poured the ice in. I didn’t leave them in the ice bag. MikeRL411: I’ve seen those. Actually, met a guy at one of the shows I went to a while back that had one on his truck. Personally I don’t want no weird shit on my car. I ain’t that ghetto :) And I agree with tr8er. I’m making this for JCCS and although I’m hoping I can put up a canopy, which I think we can, it’s supposed to be 84 degrees that day which means 800 degrees in the car. Mike: I didn’t put anything in there other than the ice. Hadn’t thought of putting in something that would separate ice from water. Interesting idea. I want to try a few things this week if I can. In the videos I’ve seen the crushed ice lasts about an hour and a half while a large block lasts about 5 hours. I wouldn’t mind trying both myself just to see. The large block won’t matter really because the show lasts for 6 so it would be done before I left. I’d have to get more ice anyway so I may just do the crushed ice to and from the show. I’ve got about an hour’s drive to get there and Lord only knows how long to get back home because LA traffic.

Tried it out on a styrofoam cooler yesterday just to see how it would work before I carved into the plastic cooler. Worked pretty decently. Will try on the large cooler today. Started a how to thread last night. Will update later. Here's the tester version.

So I've been wanting to try this for a while and I actually wish I had known of this sooner....like over 20 years ago sooner. Might've saved me a lot of days nearly bursting into flames driving in 100 degree weather in a car with no a/c. I still love you Stanley :) You've probably seen these in youtube videos and you may have even made one yourself. I've decided to finally stop procrastinating and freaking make one already. I got a styrofoam cooler, a PVC elbow and a fan that can be plugged into the cigarette lighter. This here was just my tester to see that this actually has potential. I think it does. After I got it together I tested it out in my Pathfinder and after a few minutes there was a noticeable difference. To see if this was actually working, after it started to feel cool, I turned off the fan and it would get warm. Turn the fan back on and it would start to cool again. So tomorrow I do this for real on a 48 qt cooler. I'll list what I used and show you step by step how I made the cooler. Til then, here's my prototype.

Looks like they allow canopies. They can only be installed after 9.

Ok. Yup, picked up a cooler, PVC corner and fan that'll plug into the cigarette lighter. That little fan blows some air. I can't wait to see how well it does circulating air through the cooler. I'm also thinking about painting it but I haven't figured out what color scheme or if I want to do something other than just flat 2-toned color. Might put a design or something on there.

That shit is racist

Nope. I don't know why they keep trying to remake movies.

Yeah, but he understands now. Shit like that won't happen to him. He's under lock and key and when I take him out he's never out of my sight. I'm actually going to make Stanley a ghetto a/c with a cooler this weekend so I have it for JCCS next Saturday. I'm going to have fun making that thing. I want them to get run over by 20 mac trucks simultaneously and then I want this to happen While I sit at home on my couch watching it all go down on my TV like this

Yes, I agree. This is a great forum and it's been a big help to me. Thanks Jeff and all others involved who keep this site going.

Yeah my umbrella is 6' I believe. They better put us under a tree. I'm not trying to burst into flames out there. I'll have the umbrella just in case.

This is some shit I'd do if I had kids :)

The look I had when I discovered it

So some fucktard felt the need to do this to Thadeus last night. Why are people so damn ignorant? And this is why Stanley is locked in Fort Knox.

So no umbrellas either?

So I guess our registration info should be coming in the mail sometime soon. Anyone know if pop up tents are ok to have?

Still ugly

Seen those. They're ugly.

Didn't think so. Never seen one or even heard of it.