salmonriverhotrock
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In my travels of the South West in years past, I had run across public places that set up these water misters so people on real hot days could keep cool at events and stores and such. I've even seen them used with large fans at Dairies to keep the milk cows cool.
Recently with all the above 100 degree heat we have been having here in the canyon, the memory of them came back to me and so did some searching and found you can buy personal misters that you can carry around your waist or from your shoulder that you hand pump air into like a garden weed sprayer. The nozzle is very tiny and so emits a very fine spray, something almost like a fog so to cool your face and or arms and body. The one I bought is 24 Oz. but they come in smaller sizes and you can add ice to them. The only thing I would try to do is put distilled water in it so not to get a mineral water build up.
I have not tried it yet for out detecting in the heat but just maybe, it will help a guy make a longer day of detecting or make it not so unbearable. Just passing the idea on and could be some of you others may want to try one of these things out. They also make some that are portable for like camping. They are modified garden hand pump weed sprayers but with longer lengths of hose and a number of nozzles to set up so to mist a group. The claim with these Misters is they can lower the air temperature by about 25-30 degrees. These Misters could be the difference between a succesful detecting day or hanging up the detector until better weather. For Heat Exaustion and Heat Stroke, they could be a life saver as well.