Ac went out.

LiveLife said:
I feel your pain. When we lived in the irrigated desert of CA central valley, A/C kicked in sometime in May and didn't go off until September. It sure was nice to have portable reloading benches to reload in the cool of air conditioning.

We moved in 2014 for our coastal retirement spot and the county set an all time historic record of most number of days over a 100 degrees in a month.

Now it's cool 60s during most summer months.
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I'd take the high Temps of rosamond and willow springs over this nasty wet eastern heat.... it's gross. I'm not reloading because I don't want to expose the powder to moisture.
 
Riomouse911 said:
Electric fan with a bowl of ice in front of it may help until the HVAC guy comes to the rescue. We had to do that once when ours crapped out several years ago. ( An earwig bug got into the terminal and the switch wouldn’t work :mad:.)

Stay safe..
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That will work for a short time. In fact, air over ice was one of the early cooling methods used unsuccessfully for a short time after the Civil War. What made it unsuccessful was the humidity/water build up. You get enough water in the house, you will have a lot of mold later.
 
AJC1 said:
I'd take the high Temps of rosamond and willow springs over this nasty wet eastern heat.... it's gross. I'm not reloading because I don't want to expose the powder to moisture.
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Don't worry about a couple of days, or even weeks. When it gets to be months, that will be bad.
 
AJC1 said:
I'd take the high Temps of rosamond and willow springs over this nasty wet eastern heat.... it's gross. I'm not reloading because I don't want to expose the powder to moisture.
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Yup. I’m told by members who ought to know the heat and humidity is worse in the temperate regions around Massachusetts than down here in the tropics. Either way, as they say, it’s not the heat it’s the humidity. Our A/C will shut off if the overflow pan under the air handler fills up and it won’t come back on until 30 minutes after the pan is drained. I keep a wet vac and tube adapter just for the chore. On these stormy summer days the A/C will pull enough moisture out of the air to overflow the drain, filling the pan and shutting the system down at least once a month. Monsoon season starts in April and ends in November.
Good luck. Check HD or HF for a portable A/C unit. Sometimes they can be had for open-box special pricing.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Yup. I’m told by members who ought to know the heat and humidity is worse in the temperate regions around Massachusetts than down here in the tropics. Either way, as they say, it’s not the heat it’s the humidity. Our A/C will shut off if the overflow pan under the air handler fills up and it won’t come back on until 30 minutes after the pan is drained. I keep a wet vac and tube adapter just for the chore. On these stormy summer days the A/C will pull enough moisture out of the air to overflow the drain, filling the pan and shutting the system down at least once a month. Monsoon season starts in April and ends in November.
Good luck. Check HD or HF for a portable A/C unit. Sometimes they can be had for open-box special pricing.
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I have considered one for my room at night.
 
Slamfire said:
That will work for a short time. In fact, air over ice was one of the early cooling methods used unsuccessfully for a short time after the Civil War. What made it unsuccessful was the humidity/water build up. You get enough water in the house, you will have a lot of mold later.
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Yeah, it’s just a swamp cooler until the AC gets fixed. :oops:

Hopefully that is soon.

Stay safe.
 
I also do that, I have an 8000btu window unit I kept for our old Lenex system. I had a slow leak and after the price of R22 went up over $100.00 a lb, I started thinking about replacing the poor old thing.
I put the air conditioner in our bedroom and sat a ionizing tower fan in the bedroom doorway blowing it down the hallway to the living room, then another Ionizing tower fan in the living room to the kitchen. (I already had those two Ionizer air filter fans for cleaning the air in our house)
That one air conditioner kept our house at 78 degrees for two weeks and it was very comfortable in there. It was 95+ outside.
I'm in Kernersville, NC so it doesn't get as hot and humid as it does in Georgia. I'm very thankful of that. Even Charlotte, NC seems to be a different temperature zone at only 2 hours away.
 
tightgroup tiger said:
I also do that, I have an 8000btu window unit I kept for our old Lenex system. I had a slow leak and after the price of R22 went up over $100.00 a lb, I started thinking about replacing the poor old thing.
I put the air conditioner in our bedroom and sat a ionizing tower fan in the bedroom doorway blowing it down the hallway to the living room, then another Ionizing tower fan in the living room to the kitchen. (I already had those two Ionizer air filter fans for cleaning the air in our house)
That one air conditioner kept our house at 78 degrees for two weeks and it was very comfortable in there. It was 95+ outside.
I'm in Kernersville, NC so it doesn't get as hot and humid as it does in Georgia. I'm very thankful of that. Even Charlotte, NC seems to be a different temperature zone at only 2 hours away.
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Kvegas!!!

my 7 year old HVAC when out in Charoltte becuse of a coolant line leak last winter. My cousin is a HVAC guy, and he had a tank of coolant he bought years ago, and he charge me what he paid for it. If I didn’t have a hookup, it would have been $1,500+ for the coolant alone. Things are getting expensive out there.
 
I use to do refrigeration work on the side in the 80's-2000. I mainly did second opinion on people being told they needed new units. About 70% of the time it was only a cap or contactor that needed replacing. Where I worked at I maintained a couple of very special cascade systems. Facility operations came to me and said they were going to get me certified along with them. I was the only one besides 1 contractor that could work on the thing. Not every day you run into a unit that's 12'x12'x10' that will take 2000 lbs of steel from room temp to -50F in 8 hrs. The box would be -112F in about 3 hrs from start up, RT to - 20F in 30 min. You talking about expensive freon, R503 was around $100/lb in 1990. Jumped to over $300/lb when all the regs kicked in. I quit doing service work in 2000, still have all my equipment and freon.
 
tightgroup tiger said:
I also do that, I have an 8000btu window unit I kept for our old Lenex system. I had a slow leak and after the price of R22 went up over $100.00 a lb, I started thinking about replacing the poor old thing.
I put the air conditioner in our bedroom and sat a ionizing tower fan in the bedroom doorway blowing it down the hallway to the living room, then another Ionizing tower fan in the living room to the kitchen. (I already had those two Ionizer air filter fans for cleaning the air in our house)
That one air conditioner kept our house at 78 degrees for two weeks and it was very comfortable in there. It was 95+ outside.
I'm in Kernersville, NC so it doesn't get as hot and humid as it does in Georgia. I'm very thankful of that. Even Charlotte, NC seems to be a different temperature zone at only 2 hours away.
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I did something similar two years ago. I put a 6000 BTU window unit in my upstairs reloading room, put a fan (I think it was an air cleaning ionizing fan) at the door pointed towards the stairs. Kept the house in the 70's (the room with the AC unit stayed around 68) even though it was in the 90's everyday. This is in a house with no insulation. So it can be done with a little thought. I will say the AC unit ran almost non stop.

Anyway, it kept my reloading room and the few pounds of powder in there cool all summer. I didn't do it last year or this year, it's been too cool. We had a week of 90's, and now back into the upper 70's today. This morning was 56 degrees when I got up at 5:30.

chris
 
I feel for you humid summer living Southern Boys! I lived in Mississippi for two years......I moved.

Now I live in NW New Mexico, and last week it was a dry 110, but today is an also very dry 88 degrees. Evaporative Cooler is cheap and cool. Lots of folks here are replacing them with expensive to buy and expensive to run AC units, but for only 2 humid weeks in August, not worth the expense to me. Slamfire is right, the more humid it is, the less effective evap coolers are, but they are still better than just fans. Next week it'll be in the 100's again, but at least here, evening and nights are cool in N. New Mexico. Open screened windows alone is comfy, with a paddle fan over the bed.....and each of my bedrooms has one.

Home Depot carries little evap. coolers for $40, no bigger than a basket ball, and a guy I know with his refrigeration broke down like AJC1, and waiting for parts, bought one, put it next to where he sits and where he sleeps, and told me it was a gift from heaven during the heat last week.
 
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GW Staar said:
I feel for you humid summer living Southern Boys! I lived in Mississippi for two years......I moved.

Now I live in NW New Mexico, and last week it was a dry 110, but today is an also very dry 88 degrees. Evaporative Cooler is cheap and cool. Lots of folks here are replacing them with expensive to buy and expensive to run AC units, but for only 2 humid weeks in August, not worth the expense to me. Slamfire is right, the more humid it is, the less effective evap coolers are, but they are still better than just fans. Next week it'll be in the 100's again, but at least here, evening and nights are cool in N. New Mexico. Open screened windows alone is comfy, with a paddle fan over the bed.....and each of my bedrooms has one.

Home Depot carries little evap. coolers no bigger than a basket ball, and a guy I know with his refrigeration broke down like AJC1, and waiting for parts, bought one, put it next to where he sits and where he sleeps, and told me it was a gift from heaven during the heat last week.
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Swamp coolers were all the rage in the dessert when my parents were in high school near Edward's afb. I hear the community is getting big and the raised moisture from lawns and trees is reducing their effectiveness. At least they work well during the sweltering Santa Anna's. It's been in the high 70s at night so at least I get that break to sleep. Cold showers are now a thing...
 
AJC1 said:
Swamp coolers were all the rage in the dessert when my parents were in high school near Edward's afb. I hear the community is getting big and the raised moisture from lawns and trees is reducing their effectiveness. At least they work well during the sweltering Santa Anna's. It's been in the high 70s at night so at least I get that break to sleep. Cold showers are now a thing...
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NW New Mexico away from my river valley at the gun club range looks like this! (two of my friends from the local Mountain Man Club. ;) Standing in the shade a few Augusts ago at a club youth day celebration....they are smiling because they ARE in the shade....was 115 that day.)

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Another view of heaven on earth in the hot summer from my neck of the desert ..... makes you want to come visit and get out of the heat, and shoot with us, right? :)

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I know ....... you all have visions of buzzards and me dead or dying.
 
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GW Staar said:
I feel for you humid summer living Southern Boys! I lived in Mississippi for two years......I moved.

Now I live in NW New Mexico, and last week it was a dry 110, but today is an also very dry 88 degrees. Evaporative Cooler is cheap and cool. Lots of folks here are replacing them with expensive to buy and expensive to run AC units, but for only 2 humid weeks in August, not worth the expense to me. Slamfire is right, the more humid it is, the less effective evap coolers are, but they are still better than just fans. Next week it'll be in the 100's again, but at least here, evening and nights are cool in N. New Mexico. Open screened windows alone is comfy, with a paddle fan over the bed.....and each of my bedrooms has one.

Home Depot carries little evap. coolers for $40, no bigger than a basket ball, and a guy I know with his refrigeration broke down like AJC1, and waiting for parts, bought one, put it next to where he sits and where he sleeps, and told me it was a gift from heaven during the heat last week.
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I have very found memories of Albuquerque from the 1960's. My father's house had a swamp cooler on the roof.



Dad would hang a water filled burlap bag on the front of the car for long distance drives. Evaporation would cool the water, so we had cool water to drink. And if the car over heated, we had some water to pour in the radiator.

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New Mexico has extremely dry air. Stuff lasts in the desert for decades. When I return to the area, the skin on my fingers cracks due to the dryness. Takes a long time for the body to adjust to the dry air.

New Mexico has beautiful sunsets.
 
GW Staar said:
NW New Mexico away from my river valley at the gun club range looks like this! (two of my friends from the local Mountain Man Club. ;) Standing in the shade a few Augusts ago at a club youth day celebration....they are smiling because they ARE in the shade....was 115 that day.)

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Another view of heaven on earth in the hot summer from my neck of the desert ..... makes you want to come visit and get out of the heat, and shoot with us, right? :)

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I know ....... you all have visions of buzzards and me dead or dying.
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that looks HOT!
 
Slamfire said:
I have very found memories of Albuquerque from the 1960's. My father's house had a swamp cooler on the roof.



Dad would hang a water filled burlap bag on the front of the car for long distance drives. Evaporation would cool the water, so we had cool water to drink. And if the car over heated, we had some water to pour in the radiator.

DX9XZcw.jpg


New Mexico has extremely dry air. Stuff lasts in the desert for decades. When I return to the area, the skin on my fingers cracks due to the dryness. Takes a long time for the body to adjust to the dry air.

New Mexico has beautiful sunsets.
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Oh! I remember the burlap water bags on the radiator.....Dad would pull over and all us kids would get out and take a drink or two from it. Love your illustration!

I have two more sunsets that were so amazing I took pictures and saved them.....one at Tucson Ariz., the other near Tooela, Utah, near the Great Salt Lake. At the risk of having our favorite moderator saying enough is enough..........download them if you can.;) The first one is on Antelope Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake...a Bison preserve.. The second Tucson one was during the big California wild fires.....looks like a portal to another world....sun was doing it's best to peek through the smoke!
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I've never had central aid in any home I've had. My current home was built in 1945. The good thing about window and wall units is, they can be replaced in the time it takes to go to Home Depot, buy the unit and replace the broken one in your house.

My basement has only a dehumidifier and upstairs there is an 8000 BTU in the living room wall, a 6000 BTU unit in the kitchen/dining area and another 6000 unit in the bedroom. All is well here. Luckily in the Northeast of PA we never did break 100° but did hit 99° one day but the humidity was extremely high for the entire time. There wasn't any release when it rained either.

I think we all felt the pain over the past few weeks, some worse than others.

Sorry... As for the powder, leave it be. The sudden change in temperature will harm the powder much more than sitting in the heat. Putting 100°+ powder in the refrigerator will create a lot of moisture.
 
Don't sweat it. Air conditioned spaces are still relatively new compared to how long gunpowder has been around. It will be fine. If you insist on putting in your fridge, however, I'd at least let the cans warm up to room temperature for a few hours before opening them. What occurs on cold surfaces that are quickly exposed to warm, moist air, class?
 
Gone Hiking said:
Don't sweat it. Air conditioned spaces are still relatively new compared to how long gunpowder has been around. It will be fine. If you insist on putting in your fridge, however, I'd at least let the cans warm up to room temperature for a few hours before opening them. What occurs on cold surfaces that are quickly exposed to warm, moist air, class?
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I think everyone should have a root cellar if they can. When the UFO EMP hits, the people with knowledge of the old ways will be the survivors
 
AJC1 said:
I'd take the high Temps of rosamond and willow springs over this nasty wet eastern heat.... it's gross. I'm not reloading because I don't want to expose the powder to moisture.
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Load as much as you want; 34 years and 205,904 rounds loaded in North Florida without A/C.

You being under the water for your career, you never were on a ship in the sandbox carrying your M-14 and 5 magazines or sitting in the sun with an M-60 or 50 cal where the ammunition cans could only be picked up with gloves.

Primers and powder riding in a UPS truck all day in Georgia or Florida and they still go bang. ;)
 
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