Working on Cooling Tank 3.24.18

Date: 3.24.18
Location: Logan HS
Time: 3 hours
Goal: Fabricate a plexiglass support structure for the radiator that we are using in the cooling tank.

After the Thursday work night we needed to make up some ground on mounting the radiator in the cooling tank. The problem we had to deal with is the angle it needed to be placed at and how to support it with a material that would be safe when clean drinking water comes in contact with it.

This is just a single radiator and we wanted to use two. We may need to add a system of cooling tubes to supplement the radiator if we are not cooling the air enough.

The steps below take you through the fabrication process of what we hope will be a successful solution.

A cardboard cutout was cut to fit in the 8" pipe to help us determine the angle. We would use as a template
for cutting the plexiglass.

Cardboard template is used to trace pattern onto the plexiglass.

The plexiglass is rough cut on a bandsaw and then later sanded down to fit the inside of the pipe.

Radiator pattern was traced onto the plexiglass.

The plexiglass was put in a vice and a Dremel tool was used to cut out the shape of the radiator.

Radiator is fit into cutout and silicon caulk will be used to seal around the edges.
The duct tape at the bottom of the photo is just so we can hold up the bottom
edge of the plexiglass when we insert it in the tank.