Post by PitYak Studios on Sept 27, 2006 12:42:52 GMT 12
The starting point; a motor with tangential fan and ducting fitted. This was a lucky find, I had been toying with various fans, but getting the ducting housing was proving to be difficult, then this one turned up. Not sure what it is from, but the fan itself is like those used in fan heaters.
Flipped her over, made an adaptor from aluminium sheet, and bolted on a vacuum cleaner head.
Since the hose I had was a different diameter, and since my fabrication skills aren't that great, I used the old standby gaffer tape to attach the hose fitting to the vacuum head.
Attached the hose...
...and more gaffer tape for luck
The base of the booth is an old turntable. Removed the tone arm, bypassed the tone arm switch but left the speed control. Now the turntable starts and stops with the power switch, but still only turns in one direction. My next refinement will be to add a bi-directional motor.
The body of the booth is a monitor housing, which fitted onto the turntable incredibly easily, just had to snap off a couple of protuding bits.
..and the finished article, complete with gasket between fan housing and booth, cut from a foam camping mat. The hose will go out a hole in the wall (that I haven't yet drilled)
Freshly assembled and in the trial stage, I plan to add a bi-directional motor as I said above, and also to add a control box so I can have the fan and truntable operating independantly.
Total cost: $19NZ, and that was just for the roll of gaffer tape.
Flipped her over, made an adaptor from aluminium sheet, and bolted on a vacuum cleaner head.
Since the hose I had was a different diameter, and since my fabrication skills aren't that great, I used the old standby gaffer tape to attach the hose fitting to the vacuum head.
Attached the hose...
...and more gaffer tape for luck
The base of the booth is an old turntable. Removed the tone arm, bypassed the tone arm switch but left the speed control. Now the turntable starts and stops with the power switch, but still only turns in one direction. My next refinement will be to add a bi-directional motor.
The body of the booth is a monitor housing, which fitted onto the turntable incredibly easily, just had to snap off a couple of protuding bits.
..and the finished article, complete with gasket between fan housing and booth, cut from a foam camping mat. The hose will go out a hole in the wall (that I haven't yet drilled)
Freshly assembled and in the trial stage, I plan to add a bi-directional motor as I said above, and also to add a control box so I can have the fan and truntable operating independantly.
Total cost: $19NZ, and that was just for the roll of gaffer tape.
