You can make yourself a de-humidifier with any old refrigeration system. A friend used a chilled-water-dispenser to keep his dungeon dry. Worked quite well. Let the cooling coil snow up, and turn off at intervals to let the ice melt and drain into a drum. You don't even have to worry about venting the the condensor coil externally, just keep it at the far end of your contraption.
Regards Roland On 27 December 2010 19:14, Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 17:22 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote: > > The rain came and put a 1/8" of water across the whole shop, then sunny > > the next day and turned the shop into a sauna on freezing cold steel. > > Only the few cruddy parts of my machines escaped the rust. I'm _really_ > > pissed with mother nature right now, but I guess I should be thankful, > > it could be worse (don't know how, oops more rain Tuesday). If my > > machines were dirty I'd be okay. > > Thanks for the replies. Usually (almost always), it is fairly dry here > in the Eastern CA hills, so this problem doesn't present itself often. > Actually, after the rain the outside air was pretty dry, but with the > water inside the shop, the air being closed up, and the machines being > cold, it was a prefect storm, so to speak. I didn't go down to the shop > for a couple of days, and it didn't occur to me to check (Dooh). When I > did get down there, I thought a heater would make it worse, so I opened > the doors and windows, ran fans and the wet/dry vac to get as much water > out as I could. I have tried to not have any thing on the floor if I > could help it, but I have far too much stuff, in far too small a space. > All of the cardboard boxes on the floor have gotten wet and are slumping > and things inside are getting ruined. I can't get to many of them. > > It may be that an automatic heater could keep the machines warm enough > but they would need to be warmed before the humidity comes. A > dehumidifier would be nice, but you don't see many of them around these > parts, I'll have to look into it. Energy cost is pretty high, to me at > least, so I'll need to be mindful of efficiency. > > My heart goes out to those that have to deal with real flooding, > tornadoes, hurricanes, and the like. > -- > Kirk Wallace > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html > California, USA > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, > and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
