Dude, I'd just run the fog machine all of the time out there, forget the cooler, the constant fog is bad-ass. People will think your tent is on fire... When you wake up and come out of the tent you will appear as though you materialized out of thick air! Like some kind of magic trick. Fuck with you...

Based on the feedback I received on my last design, I modified it to "double up" on my fan output. Does this seem like I may have solved my intake issue? I had a fog machine around so I figured I'd do some smoke tests to illustrate how much air is going through. I also went back to the blue mesh wit...

Well look at that pretty thing!

I'm going to go back to the drawing board with some longer legs and blue pads and hopefully that will increase my fan's output.

Thanks everyone and THANKS FIGJAM! Here's to a cooler burn.

Yup....

Awesome. Thanks, Elder. Do you have a link for where that design came from?

Is there a way to raise the PVC frame so that the lid fits snug against the PVC and minimizes this gap? I could use longer legs inside the box or alternatively use a pad of some kind (maybe a cut of the blue pad) above the pvc to block that gap. I'll try and see if my results vary. The holes in you...

Hey all! Yesterday I finished my design which is somewhere between a bucket coolor and a unicooler. I made a PVC frame to run the water through and used tight garden netting/mesh to run the water through. The corners of the pvc legs would lose the water so I used wine corks and cut them to fit insid...

FIGJAM wrote:For that size space the unicooler would be better.

Thanks for the response! I'm going to be switching out to a bigger unit for sure!

And btw, Dr. Fish, that is one damn sexy unit!

Thanks all for your responses to my battery questions! I found a 95 AH battery and paired it with a solar controller. The project is definitely turning more complicated since I added a float switch plus a 4 watt light bulb to tell me when the pump is running. I ran it in parallel with my pump after ...

No Walmart in Brooklyn. Big box stores tend to be a rarity. Oddly there is a Costco near me but I doubt lowes sells these batteries.

The main question is do I need a larger than 100 amp hour battery or could I survive with a 50-ish one.

Hey all! If I use a controller and a 100 watt solar panel, I shouldn't need a 100+ aH battery, correct? My Costco doesn't have the sweet 12volt deep cycle like I need and they get pricey online for over 100 amp hour batteries. Some details: Finished my bucket cooler but dont think I want to go full ...

It was awkward watching the lowes employee cut thirty, 2-chain link sections for me. But he wouldn't let me help and I didn't want to cut them at home with an angle grinder. Now time for a dry run. I had the same experience. About halfway through the guys machine broke and the knob fell off. He had...

Just wanted to send an update. I received my replacement box of 50 lag bolts and did a quick count. 42 of 50 were perfectly straight and 6 were wobbly when rolled (not super bad though). Only 2 had kinks like I found in the first batch. That said, I think the first batch I got was much worse and odd...

Whoa! Lags that are bent?! I don't have time for such nonsense. Which supplier is this? Supplier was FastenerSuperstore.com but they responded quickly and are going to ship me back 50 new bolts and will give me a shipping label to send back the original bunch. I'm hoping it was just a bad batch sin...

Yes. I've never had good luck with screws or rebar in "normal" Nevada soil. Ok great I figured that was the case. My backyard is pretty muddy and moist... If you received bent bolts, contact the company with the number that were bent. I'd be surprised if they didn't replace them at no charge and no...

Just got my Lag Bolts in the mail (14" X 3/8") and noticed a good portion of them had bends in them. When I screwed them into the soft, east coast dirt in my backyard, the bend created a big hole surrounding where they went in. Even if I tried to straighten them by eye, they'd still created enough w...

Ask around among your friends to see who else is going to Burning Man. Find about ten more people and one or two more RVs that are going. That's your camp. Start a mailing list for your camp. Decide among you who is going to: * build the shower facility * build the grey water evaporation pond * coo...

Mine came in rather uneventfully along with Fireball and Survival guides. Purchased in the Individual Sale, roommate signed for package which is kind of amazing given that our door buzzer doesn't work and there's a hallway between my apartment and the front of the building. Either way having the tix...

Any good deep playa bottles for ladies? My first year we (the lady and me) found an ultra-super-crazy-large wide-mouth bottle from a major brand that worked for the lady so she could pee without going to the portos while in deep playa. She has a long coat and would cover herself around, put the ultr...

All of the above solutions are what we found work the best. We are also coming from Brooklyn and have shipping boxes to ourselves and done huge checked bags. We also added in a longer drive from either Sacramento or Las Vegas as it keeps the costs of rental vehicles down, even when taking into accou...

I have to say I'm happy at all your responses about the Vodka Guy story. I definitely felt it was complete and total asshat behavior. I left out the part where he was trying to pick both me and my girlfriend up, assuming we were double-propositioning him. When I told him multiple times that we weren...

My first year I saw a burner in front of my camp baking in the sun. When I realized just how drunk he was (clinging and swigging his handle of vodka) I thought I'd be nice and bring him in to give him some shade and some water. It was his first year too and was hitting it a bit too hard on who knows...

Thanks, SSE! Been a long time reader on ePlaya not wanting to be that guy that's under-informed. I was looking into Evapotrons too and have seen some really smart ideas that use wind power and such (some even rotate 360 degrees so they always work!). Was considering trying one for 2015 but I don't t...

Last year we had great luck with a brown tarp and three 2 X 4s duct taped together to make an evap pond. Tied a used water jug to a stake to use as a squeegee to spread the water out maybe 2-3 times a day. Main thing is lots of surface area and the more it gets spread out the faster it dries. We had...