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173502 No.173502 [Reply] [Original]

I'm thinking about making a cooler.

It'll have a motor of some sort pump ice water through copper tubing that is surrounding the water that actually holds the drinks. I have it in my head, and that's the best way to put it really.

Good idea, or bad idea? Copper is expensive but I'm bored as hell and wanted to do this for a while. I got the idea from a small geothermal cooling project I did a while back.

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

>> No.173505

>>173502
Well, the first thought is to make something to simple set the drinks into that contains ice without any moving parts needed.

For your project, yes that would work. You can also use plastic tubing for everything up to where the coils will be for the drinks. that way you save money on copper tubing and actually prevent thermal transfer in non-cooling sections.

I made a fan that blows cold air. It has a fountain pump, plastic tubing, and copper tubing. The copper is wound into a coil on the front of the fan. The plastic tubing is insulated and runs to the submersible fountain pump that is inside a cooler of ice water. It pumps the water out and it circulates and returns to the cooler. I used this one summer when I was working up in my attic. It was literally a life save. I could not have worked up there safely without it blowing on me the entire time. However, it condensated REALLY bad and was constantly leaving water everywhere. I don't have it anymore since I've repurposed the parts for other things.

>> No.173507

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/copper-immersion-wort-chiller.html
make it from flex copper water lines