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Hotter than 700 Hells down here in

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south GA....heat treated a batch of knives in my shop and didn't have to turn the furnace on! Guess I can leave them in the shop 2nite to temper them.

Worked until 2:30 PM and gave up...big fan just blowing in 110 degree air I think.

Lawdy it is hot.
 
That is hot! I use a swamp cooler in my shop. Its pretty nice in there, you just cant put blades in front of it because they will rust.
 
I know how you feel godogs57 ,I was working in my shop on my new forge today till 2.30 pm.Man it was hot!
Living down here in south Alabama 12 miles off the coast,temps rise pretty early in the morning.:confused:
 
I know how that is. The last couple of days in Louisiana have been around 98 and humid. :(
 
98? Sound like a cold front!!! Please send some of that cood air to Texas! I finally took the plunge, and insulated, and A/C'd the shop. Smartest move I ever made. Heck, it could get to 140 in my shop before I even turn the lights on. Forget the heat-treating oven!!!!!! Mike
 
I live in Northeast Alabama and it's been hot and dry here too. My shop is air conditioned or my sixty five year old butt wouldn't be out there.
 
godogs57 said:
Bruce...what is a swamp cooler?
Still hot as the dickens here....
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Not Bruce, but it's also called an evaporative cooler. Water is pumped from the bottom resevoir tank to a "spider or series of pipes that will allow the water to drip down over pads in each of the four sides of the cooler, if it's square, and a huge squirrel cage blower sucks outside air in across the wet pads and into your home, cooling by evaporation.

They become ineffective when the humidity reaches aprox. 45-50%, or the dew point 50 or more.

Many people in this state(myself included) use them as they are very effective when it's dry heat and 1/10th the price to run as an A/C unit. The trouble is, the monsoon season began early here in AZ and the coolers are not very effective now, and won't be till the humidity drops probably in late September or early October. It's a bit rough when you have no alternative form of cooling.


Edited to add: You won't see them often east of New Mexico as it's generally just too humid in those states to use them.
 
Yeah, we sort of have our own built in humidity...I wonder if that would cut down on my static electricity shocks when slack grinding on my Wilton???

On dry nights, it pops!

Happy 4th everyone,

Hank H.
 
I'm like Mike, I ACed my shop or I would be to busy wiping the sweat off to get anything done. Besides my day job is in an un ACed shop so I needed some relief at home.Dave:)
 
Its hot here in N.Y. too , got al;most up to 80 yeaterday and sweltering at night, it only gets down in the 60s.:) :)
 
Been hot in east tenn 98 for over a week no rain fans every where no releaf, im thinking working nights
BOWIE
 
I only work at nights and early mornings in the shop now...dang it just ain't fun when its this hot...it was 105 here yesterday. No fun at all...
 
None of this heat isn't related to global warming its all the new knifemakers that these forums have created. The area of Oregon I live in it normally doesn't stop raining till after the 4th of July. We had 3 days in June where the temps were just over 100 degrees. Warm and even hot weather started in April this year. Fortunately we still have low humidity.

After I wrote this and a couple hours of working I've got goose bumps.
 
Raymond Richard said:
None of this heat isn't related to global warming its all the new knifemakers that these forums have created. The area of Oregon I live in it normally doesn't stop raining till after the 4th of July. We had 3 days in June where the temps were just over 100 degrees. Warm and even hot weather started in April this year. Fortunately we still have low humidity.

After I wrote this and a couple hours of working I've got goose bumps.
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I'm not worried about global warming. It's been a lot hotter here in years past, it's just the humidity started early this year and without air conditioning, only evaporative cooling, it gets pretty nasty.

We haven't had measureable rain for almost 300 days. Almost all the plants are dead as they don't like hose water so it's getting barren here in the flower beds and elsewhere.
Soil is just baked out of all nutrients for growing anything. I can't see putting topsoil down mixed with compost and such as it will just bake out too.
Saving me a lot of labor anyway.
 
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