[Gary]

This came up on another site which got me to thinking if anyone has ever tried to mod them for a Astro.
They are the cupholders out of a Platinum Edition Escalade which are heated/cooler ones.What I know is O.E.M. versions for the parts are very expensive,but leaves me to thinking about junk yard parts as a possibility.Comments???.

 

[ghostrider1061]

anything is possible in the custom world. ifyou have the money to pay then you can play.

 

[Gary]

Know that.Question of the thread is has anyone done one??.Also to tell the membership they are out there or are their aftermarket ones?.

 

[mattsrevenge]

ooh- good q's here, ive taken a/c vents and used duct hose to re-direct them into things (cooler, bags, etc) but this is an interesting idea!

the dog house shoud/could provide some nice room to allow the directing of lines, etc.
im in!

 

[rev_les]

you can build them yourself if you're crafty.... order a couple of Peltier Junctions from an electronics warehouse. They're the same thing the factory uses, as well as the 12 volt cooler/warmers commercially available. They're technically a thermocouple, polarity reverses the direction they move heat.

 

[Gary]

Les-Please explain.Yeah newbie to this kind of thing,but I do want to learn more.

 

[webcat]

but leaves me to thinking about junk yard parts as a possibility.Comments???.

This got me thinking , i've never seen any high end cars in the junk yard with the exception of some old Cadillacs , i wonder where the high end cars end up ?

 

[Gary]

but leaves me to thinking about junk yard parts as a possibility.Comments???.

This got me thinking , i've never seen any high end cars in the junk yard with the exception of some old Cadillacs , i wonder where the high end cars end up ?

Well that is a simple answer.They end up in Elvis's garage in the sky. oke: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Big_kid]

Body shops & specialty shops is my guess.
I stopped at one that specialized in Jaguars once, I was looking for rear marker lights from the early 80's to use as tail lights on my dune buggy. I had just scored a pair at Pick n Pull for $5 and wanted another set. The guy wasn't sure he could get them, and said they'd be around $75 EACH if he could.

 

[rev_les]

Les-Please explain.Yeah newbie to this kind of thing,but I do want to learn more.

I'll try to describe this as best I can.. A Peltier Junction, is an electronic device, sandwiched between 2 aluminum plates. If you apply current to it, it transfers heat from one side to the other, and will boil water on the side heat is transferred to, and freeze it on the side the heat is transferred from. Basically, cold is nothing but absence of heat, and heat is a form of energy. They're not dependent on current only flowing one way, if you reverse the current, it transfers heat the other way. If you purchased some, you could build a thin aluminum plate to serve as a bottom in the cup holder, attach a Peltier to the underside,with a CPU heatsink and fan mounted to it and with a dab of heatsink paste. WIre it up so you can reverse the polarity, you have a heater/cooler for your drink. I had a cooler built with one of these over 20 years ago,that I saw the idea for in Popular Electronics magazine,before you could go to target and purchase one, and I've been wanting to build some cupholders with a couple.....and now you're asking about it, so I thought I'd share... ( hell, someone beat me to patenting it anyway, lol)
A key element, is make sure the heat sink you add will cool it sufficiently, or just like an under cooled CPU, it'll toast itself.
edit*, i'll try to draw a diagram and post it, not sure if I've described it well enough...

 

[rev_les]

here's a link to just one place, I'm not affiliated nor have I ever dealt with them, but they have some info on here..heck, they even make liquid coolers for them now! You got me thinking about it again, lol
http://www.shop.customthermoelectric.co ... cstrfrnt03

 

[Gary]

Got it bookmarked for a ref.Thanks,Les.

 

[91astroluv]

Gary wrote:
but leaves me to thinking about junk yard parts as a possibility.Comments???.
This got me thinking , i've never seen any high end cars in the junk yard with the exception of some old Cadillacs , i wonder where the high end cars end up ?

Hey guys!
and the answer isssssssss...
Salvage auctions
If they are high end, then they are $$$$ so used car dealers (wolves in sheep costumes) buy them to repair a crashed high end car and then reconstruct title and sell it to someone that would have never dreamed it possible to own it! (for a hefty profit ofcourse. People who could afford it wouldn't shop "Used" on the corner lot they buy at the Dealer or the dealer certified "Pre-owned" (used).

Just my two cents

 

[rev_les]

Hey guys!
and the answer isssssssss...
Salvage auctions
If they are high end, then they are $$$$ so used car dealers (wolves in sheep costumes) buy them to repair a crashed high end car and then reconstruct title and sell it to someone that would have never dreamed it possible to own it! (for a hefty profit ofcourse. People who could afford it wouldn't shop "Used" on the corner lot they buy at the Dealer or the dealer certified "Pre-owned" (used).

precisely...the hucksters get 'em and resell them

 

[91astroluv]

lol...HUCKSTER he he

Round my way we gotsa a diffrent name for 'em but for posterity's sake
I'll leave it at that.

 

[Jasen]

Back in my detail days, we had a few guys bring in builders, as we called them, for a buff and shine. Not always high end car, but sometimes new mid-upper end cars that got totaled shortly after driving off the lot.
I won't tell you some of the parts, I mean, things I've found in some of those cars.

Theres a salvage yard up the road from me that deals only with Lexus and Infinity. I think it's more along the lines of a legal chop shop.