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Monday, March 23, 2009

Solar-Powered Camping Cooler Day 5

Day 5:

Due to the time crunch I was unable to construct decent exhaust ducts for the hot and cold air. We spent Saturday digging out foam and constructing quality exhaust ducts. Things were going well until we tried to re-spray foam into the sections we had cut out. We used a common crack sealing foam thinking it was similar to the DOW Froth-pak. We assumed wrong. From the pictures you can see how well the foam turned out. We decided to continue on with the project and fix our foam problem later.

The next step was to construct our interior housing. We cut the side panels first and also cut the duct cut-outs for the interior fans. Then we bent the remaining section of the box. The last step was to paint the acrylic. We chose to paint it in order to hide the yellow interior foam color. We finished the day after we painted the acrylic sections.



Cutting out the old ductsThe interior ducts
Foam job #2: Filling the sections we cut outThe results of our second foam jobCutting the interior ductsEnd sections paintedPrepping the acrylic for bending

Painting the interior box

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