maytag63
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Never seen or heard of this brand. Does anyone have any information on it?
http://albany.craigslist.org/bar/3529944204.html
http://albany.craigslist.org/bar/3529944204.html
Blizzard 550 Portable Air conditioner
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maytag63
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Back: Interesting that the plug is located on the outside.
Back: Interesting that the plug is located on the outside.
maytag63
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Now that I look at it closer, It's an air cooler. Are these the kind that you add water to them?
You may be right about that, adding water, because it says cooler, not a/c. For a couple of years when I was a kid those evaporative type coolers just like that were sold all thru Maine pretty cheap and people found out real quick they did not work in our humidity we get in the summer. 100% humidity and adding more water to the air? I'll keep my air conditioner.
<span style="font-size: medium;">I remember those being sold at Woolworth's when I was a kid one summer. My cousin was a cashier there and she told me for every 10 that were sold, 7 were being returned. They are really meant for dry desert heat, not our humid summers. They were never offered for sale again. </span>
I would go for it. Those work great out here in Arizona. Just wish it were closer. Also according to the ad, it seems this person thinks its made of gold and that he wants a pretty penny for it. "I will take offers of cash or trade on this one as it is hard to put a value on it. I have many interests including vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles), sports memorabilia and antique/vintage collectibles and would consider part cash/part trade scenarios."
I would say $100 tops, and thats pushing it.
I would say $100 tops, and thats pushing it.
cfz2882
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portable evaporative coolers
quite a few companies made those in the '50s and '60s with a couple companies making metal ones similar to the posted one into the 1980s.Plastic ones are still made AFAIK.Many years ago i had a 1950s thermador;3-blade fan and a metal disc/rubber wheel 90*drive to the vertical pump drive shaft.Later had a ~1982 metal one with squirrel cage blower-McGraw edison IIRC.
quite a few companies made those in the '50s and '60s with a couple companies making metal ones similar to the posted one into the 1980s.Plastic ones are still made AFAIK.Many years ago i had a 1950s thermador;3-blade fan and a metal disc/rubber wheel 90*drive to the vertical pump drive shaft.Later had a ~1982 metal one with squirrel cage blower-McGraw edison IIRC.
You can still find new versions of them at most hardware and big box stores even here in Canada but they're useless because of the summer humidity except for the interior of BC and southern Alberta where it's bone dry year round. Come to think of it you could use one as a humidifier in the winter elsewhere.
That is a cool looking unit though.
That is a cool looking unit though.
But in an air conditioned store with low humidity, they produce an impressive stream of cool air. I remember a stop at a gas station one summer in the 50s and they had one of those in the office. It only added to the discomfort and, from the looks of it, supported a thriving microbial community.
Friends had a large swamp cooler for their orchid greenhouse where high humidity was desired. A classmate whose family moved to Georgia from Texas brought their large cooler with them and the first summer it was positioned outside a window, but then it disappeared, maybe after the house developed terminal mildew.
Friends had a large swamp cooler for their orchid greenhouse where high humidity was desired. A classmate whose family moved to Georgia from Texas brought their large cooler with them and the first summer it was positioned outside a window, but then it disappeared, maybe after the house developed terminal mildew.
whirlcool
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They must have been from West Texas where it is bone dry. In East Texas it is just as humid as it is in Georgia.
