5-1-13

4:45pm

I've had this iron umbrella base and a pole

I've been saving for the last year or so

awaiting to find a bird feeder to put on top of it.

Well you've seen the bird feeders I've found

recently and now I finally got to put

one to use on that pole.

I'm hoping this will keep the squirrels out of the feeder.

They have their own corncob feeder.

Then I moved onto my next project

since it is starting to warm up outside,

my air conditioner in the truck.

It seems to still be working,

the compressor is kicking on and off unlike

last year where we had to jump start

the compressor to make it run.

I learned that trick off the internet.

Saved us from going without AC or having

to buy another compressor!

It will need a splash of freon.

The problem with some of these vehicles

like Suburbans is that it has front vents,

middle vents and third row seat vents.

With all those vents the front vents start lacking

cold air which goes directly to the back of the truck.

I put a digital thermometer in the front vent

and it read something like 85-86 degrees.

When I placed the thermometer

in the back vent it read 60 degrees.

A 25-26 degree difference!

Now mind you it will need some freon to make it colder

in there I'm just showing you how much

of a temperature difference there is from

front to back.  I don't have money to take

it into a garage so they can charge me

an arm and leg to fix this problem.

So here's what  I did since we no longer

have or use the third row seat and use that

area to haul things and want that cold air up towards the front.  

For starters we were missing

a vent grill on one of the middle vents

so I removed the grill plate from the one in

the back and put it in the missing one

in the middle.

In this area now where I removed the grill

I added a clip on oscillating fan

to blow that cold air up to the front of the vehicle.

I found it at the thrift store for $3-$4.00.

Here it is working.

It sounds really loud and horrible but it is

actually quiet.  Quiet to the point when I shut

the truck off I got out and forgot to unplug it.

The sound you are hearing is the air blowing

into the speaker of the camera.

Now all the cool air blowing into the back of the

truck in wasted space is now going to the

front of the truck.

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