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Default A/C vs. swamp cooler?

On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 1:58:56 AM UTC-5, Bod wrote:
On 09/05/2018 22:02, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 3:16:49 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Wed, 09 May 2018 20:48:34 +0100, Uncle Monster wrote:

On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 2:27:40 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Wed, 09 May 2018 17:45:09 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Wed, 09 May 2018 05:34:05 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 09/05/2018 04:13, rbowman wrote:
On 05/08/2018 03:43 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
It's not so much the water getting out as air (well hydrogen) being
created from rust inside the radiators and blocking the flow of water.
Why can't someone invent a water pump that can cope with an air bubble?

Switch to steam heat; the radiators have air vents.

All water central heating radiators have air vents. If they didn't,
they'd have lots of air inside them.

The trouble is they aren't automatic. And it assumes that the vents are always where the air collects. I often get air stuck in the middle of some piping, or in the pump.

It has been 50 years since I was around a radiator but the ones we had
in my high school had some kind of vent on the side that seemed to be
letting air/steam out a lot.

There were steam radiators at the old Catholic Parochial gulag I attended in the 1950's and as I recall the vent on the side of the radiators was always hissing and spitting out a bit of steam. Then the diocese built a modern new school that had through the wall units under the windows. I don't recall if they were AC units since it was a long time ago but come to think of it, it was cooler during the summer months inside the new school. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Tortured Monster

Replying to your sig.... were you tortured by priests when younger?
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No, I was tortured by nuns. My first-grade teacher was an American nun named Sister Godzilla then in the second grade, the diocese imported Irish nuns who believe in capital punishment for small children. I had it rough as a kid. The priests were never mean to me. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Tortured Monster

"capital punishment" They used to kill children!!!!!?
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Bod


An exaggeration. They just made you wish you were dead. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Killed Monster