My Rory Gallagher Wanigan Cool-Box.
....can you see a theme?....
....But 1st, a joke....
A blonde walks into a store.
Curious about a shiny object, she asks, "What is that?"
The store clerk responds, "It's a thermos."
The blonde then asks, "What does it do?"
The clerk says "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold." So she buys one.
The next day, she brings it to work with her. Her boss, also a blond, asks, "What is that shiny object?"
She replies "It's a thermos."
He asks, "What does it do?"
She says, "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold."
He then asks, "What do you have in there?"
"Two cups of coffee and an ice-cream."
The store clerk responds, "It's a thermos."
The blonde then asks, "What does it do?"
The clerk says "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold." So she buys one.
The next day, she brings it to work with her. Her boss, also a blond, asks, "What is that shiny object?"
She replies "It's a thermos."
He asks, "What does it do?"
She says, "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold."
He then asks, "What do you have in there?"
"Two cups of coffee and an ice-cream."
....OK, 1st you cut off the back or the front of a perfectly good canoe"
....then you put a back on it.... to make it into a rather short square ended canoe....
....well about 10' 6" shorter than the original....
....undercoat and paint it....
....yep, black, just like Henry Ford,
who ironically, gave Rory Gallagher a job in his song "going to my home-town"
....I made some waterslide decals of an amplifier used by Rory way back in time,
or so I'm told!, and here it is....
or so I'm told!, and here it is....
....I am in the process of lining it to keep things cool in there....
....The lining was;
2 x 5mm layers of closed cell pink expansion-gap foam.
1 x 10mm layer of foil covered sleeping mat
....so all in all 20mm of insulation with a foil covering....
I used some foil tape to cover the plywood lid and I
also glued some 10mm foil covered sleeping mat to the inside.
For the test I put inside:
2 x 2L bottles frozen water,
4 x 1/2L bottles frozen water,
4 x frozen ice-packs,
with room to spare and "filled" with air-gaps.
The temp went to -22*C but this quickly went to around
-7.6*C then with a steadily rise to +3.5*C over the 10 day trial.
-7.6*C then with a steadily rise to +3.5*C over the 10 day trial.
....I got a temperature probe and will fill the box with bottles of frozen water and time it to see how long it stays cold for and will post the results here, see below.
....Now the "old back" of the canoe is now tucked away under the front of the canoe.
The wooden wedge keeps it nice and tight and "locks" it in place under a short thwart under the front deck.It also can be filled with a foam block/air-bag/balloon and used as extra buoyancy/flotation....
10 DAY TEST
Day 1....7.6* below freezing
Day 2....0.2* below freezing
Day 3....0.1* below freezing
Day 4....0.0* freezing
Day 5....0.0* freezing
Day 6....0.1* above freezing
Day 7 away
Day 8 away
Day 9 away
The above test was done in an integral garage with an average temp of +10*C
The box was not opened during the test to replicate the opening during the trip of at least once a day but will do another test to replicate this too and also do this with a warmer ambient temperature.
I was going to make a Spinal Tap Wanigan but thought better of it, although mine goes up to eleven too!!!!
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