grace_bailey•26d agoProlific Poster

Appreciation post: That little fan that saved my butt on a Cessna 172 yesterday

Was doing a compression check on a IO-360 engine yesterday afternoon and the cabin temp was pushing 95. My little battery powered Ryobi fan died on me after 10 minutes. Ended up using a shop vac on blow mode to cool the cylinders between tests and it actually worked. Anyone else got a cheap trick for staying cool in the hangar in summer?

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lisaf3825d ago

Nah I gotta push back on this a bit @jamesm48, soaking a towel just makes the air feel sticky and heavy to me. Give me a dry fan pointing straight at my neck and I'll take that over damp air any day.

jamesm4826d ago

Last summer I had a 150 that would hit 100 in the cabin by like 10am and I tried everything. Those little desk fans from Walmart worked okay for about an hour before they'd overheat and quit. The real weird one I found was soaking a towel in cold water and draping it over the intake of a box fan. It made the air feel like twenty degrees cooler for like ten minutes. Not super practical but it got me through a few oil changes.

william_henderson22d ago

The towel trick works better if you wring it out first so it's damp not dripping.