goldenchild said:Can someone pleeeeease show how their blower is situatated on their fumehood?
"... and it will withstand a direct hit from an ICBM." 8)rusty said:I'm not officially entering this contest, but I will share some of my ideas and home made equipment.
I have two of these old soft drink coolers, one is going to be used for a fume hood and the other for chemicals compatible to be stored together. The corner with the pails is going to have a work bench with an overhead hood with extra lighting.
Most of you have already seen the ball mill and the centrifuge, the small hammer mill is a new addition. Planned is a heat exchanger with a pump that will heat a coil which I'll wrap around a 30 gallon fiber glass tank to heat my leach.
The centrifuge is not a filter, this is used to extract the last dregs, yet to do is to make a casing at the bottom then fill it with concrete for weight. I find that I never have to run this at full RPM to get a good extraction from the dregs which I dampen down with a bit a water.
Then there will be a couple of electrolytic cells added, no pictures yet.
Some modifications to the shop, upgrading the wiring to a 200 amp service, overhead trolley for my pneumatic hoist. Scrap will go into barrels the hoist is for lifting the filled barrels onto truck or trailer.
Just outside the shop door a steel pole with an arm for another hoist to lift the lid from my furnace and to handle the crucibles for pouring. One of my hobbies is back yard metal casting.
I may build a hydraulic bailer later on to cube my tin scraps, the briquettes would not weigh anymore than 500 lbs.
Excluding the materials currently going into shop improvements, I have around $600.00 invested in my lab not counting chemicals.
Regards
Rusty
goldenchild said:rusty,
You've go the wheels spinning with the cooler thing. :idea:
rusty said:goldenchild said:rusty,
You've go the wheels spinning with the cooler thing. :idea:
One half will have a shelf built in the the counter top range, the floor of the shelf will be formed using cement to mimic a shower stall, should I have an accidental breakage the liquids will go down the drain so to speak - into a pail waiting underneath.
For fume control I'll be using 4metal's venturi design, with a blower removed from a dryer. Since I have no neighbors may just vent the fumes into a drum first then let them go to atmosphere.Yea I've got the wheels spinning.
When I build me work bench there will be a fume hood overhead to take care of any hydrogen coming off my cells.
Both coolers were free.
Regards
Rusty
Barren Realms 007 said:rusty said:goldenchild said:rusty,
You've go the wheels spinning with the cooler thing. :idea:
One half will have a shelf built in the the counter top range, the floor of the shelf will be formed using cement to mimic a shower stall, should I have an accidental breakage the liquids will go down the drain so to speak - into a pail waiting underneath.
For fume control I'll be using 4metal's venturi design, with a blower removed from a dryer. Since I have no neighbors may just vent the fumes into a drum first then let them go to atmosphere.Yea I've got the wheels spinning.
When I build me work bench there will be a fume hood overhead to take care of any hydrogen coming off my cells.
Both coolers were free.
Regards
Rusty
Why don't you do it out of fiberglass insted of concrete? Then you won't have a rection if you have an accident.
rusty said:Barren Realms 007 said:rusty said:goldenchild said:rusty,
You've go the wheels spinning with the cooler thing. :idea:
One half will have a shelf built in the the counter top range, the floor of the shelf will be formed using cement to mimic a shower stall, should I have an accidental breakage the liquids will go down the drain so to speak - into a pail waiting underneath.
For fume control I'll be using 4metal's venturi design, with a blower removed from a dryer. Since I have no neighbors may just vent the fumes into a drum first then let them go to atmosphere.Yea I've got the wheels spinning.
When I build me work bench there will be a fume hood overhead to take care of any hydrogen coming off my cells.
Both coolers were free.
Regards
Rusty
Why don't you do it out of fiberglass insted of concrete? Then you won't have a rection if you have an accident.
To make a fiberglass drain pan i would still have to build a mold, whereas concrete I can trowel in the slope to center then give it a protective coating of good paint. The drain pan is just a precautionary measure, hopefully it will never be put to the test.
Regards
Rusty.
glondor said:You could put it on its side and use a counterweight to operate the lower door and pin the upper door closed. I know you would need legs for it to do this or perhaps rest it on a ledger board lagged to the wall and just tapcon it to the wall then do your drain work. You would have a sweet up sliding glass front. It would be a tall hood, Maybe you could have shelves up high to hold pots or beakers doing slower reactions.
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