Summer Approaches : share your best cool shirt/seat setup links (Page 1 of 3)

I'm still waiting to see the first backpack-mounted cool suit for walking-around-the-paddock use. How hard could it be?

I made a mister system that hung from our easy-up for Arse Sweat last August. I hooked up garden misters to a manually pumped sprayer bottle (like you use to spray insecticide). It wasn't portable to walk around with, but it sure felt good to sit under in the shade.

We also broke down and bought a cool suit system fir the car. I don't think we could live without it now.  Worth every penny (and more).

Install a/c in the car.

just don't remove it from the car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

sure its a few more lbs and a bit of drag on the engine...but imagine the driver comfort....thats priceless!!!

What about an ice bucket mounted directly above the driver.  Drill holes in the bucket and fill it with ice, wait for the arctic sensation.

Then,

Just tape this photo to the dash and think cold.

Poster is not responsible for protruding nippiness from said genius invention.

I bit the bullet and got the Cool Shirt system. I didn't want to spend time and effort into designing my own, going thru at least a couple redesigns to finally get it working right.

An AC system that would run the cooling to the suit itself would be pretty choice.

Hard to beat the simplicity of a cooler and ice however. I recall seeing a good plan on making your own coolshirt somewhere. Let me see if I can dig it out.

I was asked by DC Doug to post our system in detail to help anyone else who is thinking of building their own system.  I'll add even more detail and post it all in a separate thread that maybe the administrators can sticky or something if they think it is worthy.

I investigated this a while back, I remember coming across a design that had an overflow outlet that would allow excess water to drain out the bottom of the car, primarily so the crew could just dump ice in and let the excess water dump out on its own during a pit stop.  Presumably excess might slosh out around turns too, not sure that dumping water on the track is a great idea though.  Maybe add a ball valve so a quick 90 degree turn will let it drain, then close it off?

I found a solution to this problem as well.  Stay tuned for my post abut building a system.

Doug,

ask around, find someone who has had knee or maybe shoulder surgery, and used a cooler system. These are cool suit systems to help cool knees and shoulders post surgery. Built just like your going to build. See if they still have their cool bladder (the thing that goes on the knee or shoulder).

Tape it to the back of the seat, Kidney area. Run some 1/4 Poly hoses off to your Ice chest with a 12vdc bilge pump. Adapt the bilge pump output down to the 1/4" with the return just dumping back into the Ice chest.

Has this been posted?

http://www.coolshirt.net/port-a-cool.html

http://www.amazon.com/COOLSHIRT-PORTA-C … 000K3IDY2/

and just the can

http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Shirt-Coolsh … B000K3IDXI

I wonder how well this would work out for walking around?

Says 1-2 hours.