Topic: Air conditioning
My brother bought this Edsel, you see, and it doesn't have A/C. Not to worry, they made swamp coolers that fit Edsels. I picked one up on ebay, and I'm doing as cheap-ass a refurbishing job as possible. It's a Thermador. People with old Bugs like to put them on their cars at shows. We plan on actually using the bugger - Death Valley is hot and dry, I'm told.
The pad is in a soldered-shut hardware cloth squirrel cage. I had to extract the old one and install the new one with zero clearance. Magic was involved.
I bought the smallest pad at Ace Hardware in Tucson, and used less than half of it.