[SEL] Cooling for Fairbanks needed.

[John Culp]

> One of the ideas floated was to acquire a period correct "cooler" to  
> recirculate water to the engine. So I am soliciting for suggestions on  
> what such a device would be and look like. Maybe someone even has one  
> we can use. What would a cooler be? A wooden cooling tower with slats  
> that trickle the water collected in a tank at the bottom? ORA plain  
> wooden tank like this?  
> <http://www.oldengine.org/members/holland/images/ 
> Illinois%20Oil%20Lease/09.jpg>
> OR Something with a fan that creates updraft like you see in industry?

A big wooden barrel of water on the roof is what my dad told me cooled  
the big F-M powering the ice plant in the town near the farm he grew up  
on in Alabama. Thermosiphon cooling will work fine with pipes just  
running into the bottom of such a container, separated fairly widely.

John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA