skinny
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alright i have a choice between making my fume hood 4 feet wide by 2 feet high and 2 feet deep with a slanted front sash and a 6 inch gap at the front bottom for air flow or 3 feet wide. what are your thoughts on this? 4 feet allows me to mount a shoplight i already own for lighting but i would have to cut my front swinging doors in half and having hinged front sash but at 3 feet i can make a sliding sash with a single piece of panel. i also have a 800 cfm blower that will vent the hood i dont know how to calculate cfm needed for my measurements especially with a slanted front. i want to be able to swap the blower for an air scrubber in the future but the one id get is only 550cfm. ill be using a gas scrubbing setup to catch most of the fumes so calculating the cfm doesnt need to be exact i just want good airflow incase the gas scrubber fails or i need to remove a seeing glass during a reaction. i did a quick search but wanted to start a discussion about my choices before im stuck with them for my particular build, i read a bunch of threads that helped me pick materials and that was super helpful i feel like this might be an easy answer i would think the more space the better and im hoping you guys have some more educated input.
heres some day photos of the build considering all i had was hand tools and some drills i think it came out pretty well got a light mounted inside just have to hook up the blower and ducting and install the front sash clean it up and maybe give it a layer of paint before staining the shit out of it with acid haha
heres some day photos of the build considering all i had was hand tools and some drills i think it came out pretty well got a light mounted inside just have to hook up the blower and ducting and install the front sash clean it up and maybe give it a layer of paint before staining the shit out of it with acid haha
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