US Brig Syren by Redshadowrider - Model Shipways - Scale 1:64 - First wooden ship build

[RossR]

I sympathize with your struggles.   I am about to write a similar post about the stern in my USF Essex.  
 

good look with your cooling unit.   

[Dr PR]

There is a lot of hype and quite a bit of BS about the small "coolers" or "air conditioners."

 

These things are useless unless there is a way to remove the heat from inside the room (blow warm air outside). Without that they are no more useful than an ordinary fan - but way more expensive.

 

The Admiral's father wanted a "portable" air conditioner for his bedroom. It sat on the floor and had a flexible duct running to a window. Baffles in the window sealed around the duct so it could vent to the outside. It was only marginally useful for cooling the room, and could not prevent the temperature inside from rising as it got hotter outside. There are two significant problems with this arrangement.

 

First, the warm exhaust air heats the flexible duct, and it in turn serves as a heater to return the heat to the room. The longer the duct the more it heated the room. The second problem is if the house is sealed and has few air leaks. For every bit of air blown out of the house more air has to come in somewhere (otherwise interior pressure would drop and a window might implode). This really reduces the cooling effectiveness because warm air is being sucked in somewhere else.

 

Window mounted air conditioners do not have these problems. They recirculate interior air, so there is no problem with trying to force air out of the house. And they have heat exchangers on the outside that lose heat to the outside air.

 

There is a new type of heat pump air conditioner and heater coming on the market. It is being developed for high rise apartment buildings that typically have low efficiency heating and cooling systems (if anything at all). It fits in a window like a window air conditioner. But unlike most of these units the new device is built like an inverted "U" with a narrow part that fits over the window sill and the parts on the inside and outside hanging down. These operate off ordinary 15 amp 125 VAC wall sockets and are very efficient. One estimate said that if all the apartments in New York City had these installed and older heating/cooling equipment was turned off, one entire large electricity generating power plant could be shut down!

 

I have a friend who installs solar systems and other energy saving equipment and he has one of these prototype units in his house as part of a nation wide test program. The one small unit can heat and cool his house (he also has an air circulating system to move the heat around)!

Edited 20 hours ago by Dr PR

[Redshadowrider]

Thanks, @Dr PR

What you indicate about the small coolers is exactly what I expected.  I work in a 3 car garage, so I don’t anticipate cooling the whole thing.  I have decided to do what I have done in the past.  Just work in the morning for a few hours and when the humidity is lower.  I could move inside my home office, but there is so much to move. I can make progress. As seen by my next post.  

Edited 4 hours ago by Redshadowrider

[Redshadowrider]

Slow and steady as she goes…..

 I have made some progress over the last couple of days.  The single blocks have been installed on the flying jib boom, and the bowsprit cap.  They are a little difficult to see, but came out fine.  The open and closed collars are well along in their completion and will be installed when I get the loops in the lines figured out.  Then it’s a matter of adding them in the proper order.

 

Newbie notes:  I highly recommend the open and closed hearts that I got from the Syren Ship Model Company.  They are the 7mm size and are quite strong for printed parts.  If you want to work with the wood laser cut ones do not let me stop you.  However, if the wood is weak you can get pretty frustrated.  My opinion only…they should be included in the kit due to their size, but that’s just me.