Awesome Roadside Find for my Vortex Chiller

Lookie what I found sitting out with someone's trash on the side of the road. I couldn’t get the car turned around fast enough. I can't believe someone was throwing this away. Or possibly some poor guy is saying, ‘where in the hell is my cooler. I just parked it at the end of the driveway for two minutes, and it disappeared.’ In any event, other than it being a little dirty, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. As is this cooler must have cost at least $50 new. It has wheels and a collapsible handle just like a piece of rollaway luggage, will hold up to 101 twelve ounce cans, and will keep ice up to five days in 90 degree weather. That person’s trash is definitely going to be my treasure, especially after I turn it into a vortex fog chiller.

I've also had this steel milk crate sitting in my garage for the past five years, serving no purpose, and guess what; it fits right down into the cooler. All I had to do was cut off a couple of inches off the top of the milk crate, and slide it right down inside the cooler. Now I can stack frozen water bottles on top of it to cool my fog.

I cut two 2 ½ inch holes and slid two pieces of 2 inch PVC inside. I glued them in place with Gorilla Glue, which I’m now waiting for it to cure. Notice the Y shaped PVC fitting on the side. I’m going to run two 400 watt Walmart foggers into the chiller, which I’m hoping will give me a good amount of fog. I can cap off one of the inlets if I ever decide to run only one fogger. I’ve never build a fog chiller before, so here’s hoping it turns out. I’ll post more pics as it progresses.