It's getting hotter every day and your electricity bills are not environmentally friendly.
This credit crunching fridge is a sure way to be sure your beverages will stay chilled in the hottest of heats. It's much greener than your average electrical fridge and will work anywhere where there isn't a lot of humidity.
The pot in pot refrigerator or Zeer was made by Professor Mohammed Bah Abba, though there's evidence it was in use in early Egypt. It works on the principle of evaporative cooling.
You will need:
Two terracotta pots. One has to fit inside the other with an inch or so between all the way round.
Sand.
Water.
A towel/cloth big enough to go over it
5-10 minutes, maximum!
This credit crunching fridge is a sure way to be sure your beverages will stay chilled in the hottest of heats. It's much greener than your average electrical fridge and will work anywhere where there isn't a lot of humidity.
The pot in pot refrigerator or Zeer was made by Professor Mohammed Bah Abba, though there's evidence it was in use in early Egypt. It works on the principle of evaporative cooling.
You will need:
Two terracotta pots. One has to fit inside the other with an inch or so between all the way round.
Sand.
Water.
A towel/cloth big enough to go over it
5-10 minutes, maximum!
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Add about 1-2" of sand into the bottom of the big pot. Don't worry too much about the holes at the bottom, the sand packs down and forms a plug.
Firm down the sand before putting your second pot in.
Firm down the sand before putting your second pot in.
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You filled it with water and hung it in a shady breezy spot.
There were commercial and home made versions.
I saw one in 'Boy's Life' in the 1950's. Another described in "The Boy Mechanic: 200 Classic Things to Build' by The Editors of Popular Mechanics was made like this: Cut a two foot long, one foot wide strip of heavy canvas was sewn into a foot square bag with a porcelan knob insilator sewn into an upper corner as a mouthpiece. Two metal rings were attached at the top to allow for a carrying it.
I've always wanted to try that, but we live in PA.
Now when it comes to reading them, I consider it a banner day when I find one that I've never read. it's been about two years since the last time I found one, and I was Quite surprised as well as delighted.
there was also a short story in one of the books about the last of the anesazi a young boy leading his family to follow the star.
I think I counted his books once and the fiction ones come to just under 200 I think. including the anthologies.
He was the last of the cowboys who wrote about what they knew. now the writers are writing about what they imagine which doesn't have the ring of authenticity in it.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Evaporative-Cooler-1/
I'll try and answer any questions if possible, I'm no expert though.
i'm on a VERY tight budget and i just looked on lowes.com for the prices and they got pretty pricey.
if it's possible, could you please answer fast?
What you can do instead is use any old pot filled with water and put a tea towel over the top but make sure it goes over what you're going to cool and into the water. The tea towel wickes up the water and evaporates it to cool. Same principle but doesn't have the same thermal mass and won't last as long.
Obviously requires more water which the zeer doesn't require.
i plan on making one today!
Hmm... that might lead to too much water leakage. Maybe just the top half would be like that, and we'd be sure to channel the water leaked into the pebble/sand container?
you should put a thermometer in there and see how cold it actually gets.
I do like evaporative coolers, no one believes it will work every time - I live over the water in northern Ireland and the weathers still enough to do it. As a note, a crate of beer will fit beautifully in a terracotta planter, the windowsill ones...