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Steve,
I'll post the same picture of my hood I've posted before, for ready reference. It shows the blower assembly, and the pipe that hooks to the hood, to the rear of the blower. I had provided for a future hood, which accounts for the light brown (held in place with duct tape) cover you see at the end of the hookup pipe. It was never built, but only because I never took the time. I really needed two hoods because I had to stop refining when I incinerated.
It isn't necessary to have a belt, and I would suggest that you do not. Keep it as clean and simple as possible, although if you have something specific in mind and a belt is required, I see no problem with using one. The nice thing about the blower in the picture (from Grainger) is that there is nothing on the outside that creates a hazard, very unlike a belt.
I made one serious misque when I wired the lab. I had a 1 horse blower in the turret, which was my melting room for the large furnace and my small crucible furnace. I wired it to the same ciruit that shared the hood, and it would knock a breaker on rare occasion. That's the reason for the extension cord you see in the picture. The quad receptacle, for all practical purposes, was worthless because of the 1 horse blower, and I was way too busy to screw around with rewiring. Talk about bush-league!
Harold
I'll post the same picture of my hood I've posted before, for ready reference. It shows the blower assembly, and the pipe that hooks to the hood, to the rear of the blower. I had provided for a future hood, which accounts for the light brown (held in place with duct tape) cover you see at the end of the hookup pipe. It was never built, but only because I never took the time. I really needed two hoods because I had to stop refining when I incinerated.
It isn't necessary to have a belt, and I would suggest that you do not. Keep it as clean and simple as possible, although if you have something specific in mind and a belt is required, I see no problem with using one. The nice thing about the blower in the picture (from Grainger) is that there is nothing on the outside that creates a hazard, very unlike a belt.
I made one serious misque when I wired the lab. I had a 1 horse blower in the turret, which was my melting room for the large furnace and my small crucible furnace. I wired it to the same ciruit that shared the hood, and it would knock a breaker on rare occasion. That's the reason for the extension cord you see in the picture. The quad receptacle, for all practical purposes, was worthless because of the 1 horse blower, and I was way too busy to screw around with rewiring. Talk about bush-league!
Harold
