[DeTomaso] Climate Bag

[Larry - Ohio Time]

<<Inside a bag it would heat up and wouldn't work well.>>

The cover for my hot tub is (was) an open cell foam board. After 5 or so
years the foam absorbed water making the 25 pound cover now 75 pounds.
During the summer I pulled out the foam and placed on the cement driveway.
It helped but was still way too heavy. I made a large bag/tent to cover the
foam and a dehumidifier (drain hose running out of bag). It sucked all the
water out of the foam....not fast, over a month, but it did the job.

Larry (hot tub party) - Cleveland





-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of R.J
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 1:10 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Climate Bag

A dehumidifier works like an aircondition. The cooler the condenser is, 
the better they work and take less energy. Inside a bag it would heat up 
and wouldn't work well.

Roland
Am 04.02.2015 um 11:13 schrieb Tomas Gunnarsson:
>     Wouldn't it have been a lot easier to place the dehumidifier inside
the
>     tent and just run the drain hose away from it? Kind of how you use a
>     dehumidifier in general.
>
>
>
>     Tomas
>     <-----Ursprungligt Meddelande----->
>
>         From: Mike Drew via DeTomaso [detomaso at poca.com]
>     Sent: 4/2/2015 5:49:37 AM
>     To: andymay24 at gmail.com;davel at emspace.com
>     Cc: detomaso at poca.com
>     Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Climate Bag
>     In a message dated 2/3/15 12 13 52, andymay24 at gmail.com writes:
>     > Yes, I certainly would not want to be doing it for a weekend - its
>     really
>     > designed for seasonal use.
>     >
>     >>>Andy, he didn't say 'weekend'. He said 'week and...'
>     Yes, it takes some time to put the car into and out of the cocoon, but
>     if
>     you're taking it out and then driving it every day for a week before
>     parking
>     it for several weeks or months, it's not unreasonable.
>     FWIW, Johnny Woods balked at the high cost of a "Carcoon" in the UK so
>     he
>     made his own. His old workshop was something straight out of a Dickens
>     novel; it was in the basement of an 18th century tannery. It was
>     perpetually
>     dark and dank, and any bare metal left exposed would literally rust in
>     minutes.
>     He made a lightweight balsawood rectangle larger than the car, and
then
>     a
>     light framework that reaches a peak in the middle, and covered it with
>     heavy
>     clear PVC plastic. He put a rubber seal all the way around the bottom
>     framework. He then rigged up a pulley apparatus overhead, ran a rope
>     from the
>     top of the 'tent' through the pulley and then down to an old Jaguar
>     windshield wiper motor he affixed to the wall. Powered by a 12V
>     inverter, with the
>     flip of a switch, the whole affair lifted up and was suspended over
the
>     car.
>     Now, what about the humidity? Well, at first he just got a standard
>     dehumidifier, set it up outside the tent, with the inlet hose inside
>     with the
>     car, and piping to the outside for the water that was removed from the
>     air.
>     But then he got REALLY clever. You see, the dehumidifier has an air
>     exhaust
>     as well as an inlet. So, he rigged up a long length of hose and ran
the
>     exhaust air back INSIDE the tent. In this way, the air was circulated
>     again
>     and again and again, getting moisture pulled out of it with each pass
>     through the machine.
>     He got a humidity gauge and measured the ultimate dryness achieved by
>     this
>     method, then on his next trip to the USA, he measured the air in Death
>     Valley in the late springtime. His bubble had lower humidity!
>     So, with just a few dollars spent plus a bit of cleverness, you can
>     really
>     take care of your car if it's in a humid environment. Even if you're
>     not
>     willing to manufacture your own tent, the trick of circulating
>     dehumidified
>     air around and around and not allowing ambient air into the cocoon is
a
>     very
>     good idea!
>     Mike
>
>
>
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