A light bulb came on when I saw this auto sun shade in the 'Mission' store for a buck.
Took it home to measure it up to a Festy radiator. Not a bad fit. With a little good ole Arkansas engineering, I think this might be a possibility023.jpg026.jpg to serve as radiator shutter. All one needs is to disable the lock-in-position rachet to assure a return to the default (wound up) position.
A button on the end of the cylinder releases the shade. A couple sheetmetal screws thru the end piece into the button would keep it depressed. Then either a manual or motor driven means of pulling the shade across the radiator.
The shade I picked up is close to the same width as the radiator core is tall. The shade mechanism is about an 1-1/2 in. or so longer. The shade material is a close mesh of some pretty tough plastic like fabric. It wouldn't block air by 100% but would provide a major restriction to air flow. another material might be substituted if the shade comes apart without damaging it.
My car has AC so I may or may not be able to fit it between the condenser and radiator but with a little ingenuity I think it could be made to work. I haven't attempted to fit it into the car. The pix shows the shade taped in place on a spare radiator.
In any case I thought I'd throw the idea out there.
Took it home to measure it up to a Festy radiator. Not a bad fit. With a little good ole Arkansas engineering, I think this might be a possibility023.jpg026.jpg to serve as radiator shutter. All one needs is to disable the lock-in-position rachet to assure a return to the default (wound up) position.
A button on the end of the cylinder releases the shade. A couple sheetmetal screws thru the end piece into the button would keep it depressed. Then either a manual or motor driven means of pulling the shade across the radiator.
The shade I picked up is close to the same width as the radiator core is tall. The shade mechanism is about an 1-1/2 in. or so longer. The shade material is a close mesh of some pretty tough plastic like fabric. It wouldn't block air by 100% but would provide a major restriction to air flow. another material might be substituted if the shade comes apart without damaging it.
My car has AC so I may or may not be able to fit it between the condenser and radiator but with a little ingenuity I think it could be made to work. I haven't attempted to fit it into the car. The pix shows the shade taped in place on a spare radiator.
In any case I thought I'd throw the idea out there.
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