Cooling with just one rad

[OldChap]

After a certain chap from Florida set up his farm in the garage and used a couple of car radiators for cooling I thought I would try something similar but for me it will be with less rigs......

My expectation for this is that for most of the year I can run passive but there will be a fan (a serious fan) for high summer use

This log will take a while cos I don't do fast ...I think I have mostly everything I need now so here goes...

I spent an hour yesterday cutting and folding a sheet of 1.5mm galvanised steel
to form the sides of the fan/rad box...I'm trying to use secondhand where I can but this had to be new can't win them all

There will be those among you who are perfectionists...well, look away now....Lets just call this a proof of concept...no use of straight edges no fine measurements just rough and ready cos Heath Robinson is my hero

In the first pic we have Today's efforts setting up a unistrut frame (bolted to the floor and the wall) then fitting the fan box with a channel to hold the rad. In the channel I have placed closed cell foam to protect against possible vibration issues



Second pic is the box finished off (mostly) with the rad fitted



If the weather holds I will add more tomorrow...and a bit more detail too

For those that did not see it before here is the rad

usually goes in one of these