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Quote: Originally posted by Magpie  | I think the motor wouldn't last long in the corrosive exhaust stream.
I wouldn't trust that sparkless claim, not with a duct full of ether fumes above the LEL.  |
Ok, thanks. I'll see how feasible it would be to change the configuration of that motor then.
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You are welcome.
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But first I have to clean out the area of the garage where the fume hood would go. That is a bit of a project in itself!
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Amen.
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Plans of course will continue to be refined until it comes time to actually build, e.g., I am now considering the American Craftsman 37.75 in. x 56.75
in. 70 Series Double Hung window at Home Depot for a minor price increase (whole project cost considered), slightly larger, and gives me maximum
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Good idea. I'm sure you will appreciate the extra space.
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Looking at the Dayton blower you linked to, that is actually a direct drive - not a belt drive model. It appears that all of the belt drive units are
larger than what I need. But
I am considering the direct drive version, perhaps with the totally enclosed motor, as I don't really want to mess with the belt anyway. This also has
the motor out of the air flow, and perhaps a metal screen - a la the Davy safety lamp - could be installed between the motor and the blower.
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Totally enclosed fan cooled (TEFC) motors are the favorite of industry where there can be wet environments. Such as an outside area with no roof.
Also picture an operator with a high pressure hose cleaning up a big spill of pulp slurry. These are not spark proof and IMO are a
waste of money for our application. Instead I recommend a "drip-proof" motor - which is what I have.
While on the subject of motors I feel the "split-phase" is adequate, which is what I have. We don't have high starting torque or high cycling on and
off which might require the more expensive motors like "capacitor start," etc. We also don't run continuous duty which could justify a more expensive
motor that draws fewer amps.
Also the sleeve bearings that came with my motor seem to be adequate vs spending more money for ball bearings.
I'm certainly not an expert on the subject of motor selection, these are just my studied opinions. If anyone wants to add to this discussion I
welcome that. 
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Well you probably know more about them than most people on here, so your studied opinions are greatly appreciated!
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I'm still in the middle of fume hood maintenance. Here is a picture of the outlet louvre. It is discolored after 6 years of use (house was painted 6
years ago).
This morning I cleaned it with dish soap and hot water using a long-handled scrub brush. It looks like new now, almost. I will give it a coat of
paint in a few days.
I'm anticipating that the blower wheel will be pulled today after I buy a hub puller.
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Nice find with the 80/20 erector set!!!
This will be taking my fume hood construction in a new direction.
How expensive do you expect this to turn out with 80/20 pieces?
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There is a pressure loss we have been forgetting, ie, that of the hood itself. Kewaunee shows that for a 100 fpm face velocity, 4' hood with 8.1ft^2
open area this pressure drop is 0.25" H2O. Be sure to take this into account.
http://kewaunee.com/uploadedFiles/Main/Home/Laboratory/Manua...
Note that Kewaunee does not recommend a face velocity less than 100 fpm (1.67 fps)!
I am preparing a tutorial/instructable for calculating pressure drop for fume hood systems. I should have it ready in a day or two.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Loptr | Nice find with the 80/20 erector set!!!
This will be taking my fume hood construction in a new direction.
How expensive do you expect this to turn out with 80/20 pieces? |
As a basic design, a hood made with four 7' tall pieces, four 30" deep side pieces, four 36" wide front/back pieces, the necessary connectors, and
four economy leveling feet comes to $276.
I intend to add a few more pieces though - two side pieces and a free side-to-side piece that can be attached to these two side pieces as a way of
supporting frames and equipment. With proper planning using the perforated version of the square tube (pre-positioning threading inserts in the frame,
etc.) you can easily think vertically - attaching things to the frame suspended above the work table surface (at extra cost).
Other options that can increase price - the use of their flush mounting pins on the sides where sheet metal attaches. This is not essential though
since you can simply drill holes in the sheet where bolt heads are. I intend to attach to galvanized steel sheet by simply drilling into the aluminum
frame and using flange head screws with washers.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Magpie | | I am preparing a tutorial/instructable for calculating pressure drop for fume hood systems. I should have it ready in a day or two.
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That would be extremely valuable Magpie! I'm looking in to making a hood in the near future so this will be a great help. Definitely let us know when
that's up. Worth a separate topic here IMO.
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| Quote: Originally posted by MrHomeScientist |
That would be extremely valuable Magpie! I'm looking in to making a hood in the near future so this will be a great help. Definitely let us know when
that's up. Worth a separate topic here IMO. |
Thanks. I'm planning on placing it in Prepublication. But I will place a link in this thread.
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blower maintenance continuation
The blower wheel was removed this morning using a hub puller, a 12", and a 15" crescent wrench, and the help of my strong son.
The following pictures show the results after 11 years of hobby use:
9 inch blower wheel washed with water
blower wheel outer edge
blower shaft and inner bearing
My plan is to remove the rust on the blades and repaint with epoxy paint.
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FYI I have posted a procedure for calculating the pressure drop in a fume hood system in Prepublication here
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| Quote: Originally posted by careysub | | Quote: Originally posted by Loptr | Nice find with the 80/20 erector set!!!
This will be taking my fume hood construction in a new direction.
How expensive do you expect this to turn out with 80/20 pieces? |
As a basic design, a hood made with four 7' tall pieces, four 30" deep side pieces, four 36" wide front/back pieces, the necessary connectors, and
four economy leveling feet comes to $276.
I intend to add a few more pieces though - two side pieces and a free side-to-side piece that can be attached to these two side pieces as a way of
supporting frames and equipment. With proper planning using the perforated version of the square tube (pre-positioning threading inserts in the frame,
etc.) you can easily think vertically - attaching things to the frame suspended above the work table surface (at extra cost).
Other options that can increase price - the use of their flush mounting pins on the sides where sheet metal attaches. This is not essential though
since you can simply drill holes in the sheet where bolt heads are. I intend to attach to galvanized steel sheet by simply drilling into the aluminum
frame and using flange head screws with washers.
[Edited on 12-7-2016 by careysub] |
I went ahead and ordered the books they offer for free. They shipped out yesterday, so I should have them soon and have some idea of how all this fits
together.
The books were free, so I figured why not.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Loptr |
I went ahead and ordered the books they offer for free. They shipped out yesterday, so I should have them soon and have some idea of how all this fits
together.
The books were free, so I figured why not. |
Books? I saw a bunch of PDF downloads, but what books?
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My fume hood maintenance is still in progress and will be for another week or two.
The blower wheel was sand blasted to remove rust and then spray painted.
painted blower wheel
Today I removed the upper baffle and hosed it down in the backyard. Visibly there was only a layer of dust above the angled part.
upper baffle
The ss floor pan was removed for cleaning underneath where there was a surprising amount of loose dirt.
ss floor pan
With the pan in place I flushed the plastic duct from both ends with a garden hose/nozzle, catching the wash water in the pan.
Here's a couple pictures of the hood with the upper baffle and pan removed. You can see the slight yellowing of the epoxy painted walls. I believe
this is due to exposure from my 400w UV light when making CCl4.
8" hood outlet
hood w/upper baffle removed
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WOW – you guys are like – have your SHITE TOGETHER!!
I thought my idea of putting an old box fan in the upper part of the window at my table was my being really responsible and innovative.
Has anyone had any luck constructing an articulating duct with a funnel end which can be lowered and placed above and near the source of fumes? (like
some college labs have)
There've only been a few times when I had to exit the building under duress because the ether fumes or the HCl gases were choking me.
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This morning as I went out to weed my garden I noticed a band of dead grass about 4 feet long. I then remembered that it is in the spot where I
washed off the angled part of my hood upper baffle. Hopefully it will grow back green.
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I hope you resisted the temptation to lick it!
(Probably just killed the foliage. I doubt it poisoned the earth.)
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It was a little cooler today so this morning I reinstalled my blower wheel. All that is left now is to connect the duct to the blower. By noon it
was too hot in the attic so I quit for the day.
Below is a picture of the outlet plenum, something I really hadn't shown before:
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| Quote: Originally posted by careysub | | Quote: Originally posted by Loptr |
I went ahead and ordered the books they offer for free. They shipped out yesterday, so I should have them soon and have some idea of how all this fits
together.
The books were free, so I figured why not. |
Books? I saw a bunch of PDF downloads, but what books? |
I believe that I requested the books through this page.
https://8020.net/requests
I didn't see the books were available as PDF at the time, but they sent me print outs of everything without costing me a penny. Besides, I prefer
books to PDFs, anyway.
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My hood maintenance was completed this morning. The first picture below shows airflow with the upper baffle still removed. The second picture is at
the hood face with the baffle reinstalled. The paper is a strip of facial tissue paper (Kleenex).
Performance shows some improvement, IMO.
 
BTW, here's a very useful site that I stumbled upon:
http://www.centralblower.com/index.html
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I've been giving some thought to building a benchtop fume hood. I was thinking about constructing it out of drywall and sealing it together with
plaster of Paris, making the floor a flat basin. That way, it could withstand some pretty large spills of nasty materials like concentrated sulfuric
acid and could resist flames. Drywall is pretty brittle, though, and it's really not that lightweight... I wonder how hard it would be to work
fiberglass into the construction....
There is a lot of appeal to using a small diameter exhaust, but with a 4 inch fan and a 4 foot wide fume hood, I'd only have 4.5 inches of working
height at 60 fpm face velocity (assuming a 100 CFM fan). I haven't used a fume hood since high school and have never used one with complex
apparatus... how much working height is really necessary?
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A decent fan/blower is certainly a hard-to-come-by item (here at least).
Mine ended up being a standard bathroom ventilator, which is pretty crap, but works.
It chugs away and removes nasties from the hood <i>just fast enough</i> when the sashes are closed.
Sash open = face full of honk.
So far it's handled NOx and Cl2 and is still chooching.
In the end, the capabilities of the extraction system have to be known, and the hood used within those known limitations.
i.e. there will definitely not be any bromine made in my 'hood until the fan system is upgraded.
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Seeing as this is the sticky thread, I'll drop these here......................
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| Quote: Originally posted by Magpie | Whatever fan you select it must be able to deliver enough flow to provide 1.0-1.5 fps face velocity at your hood opening. It also must be corrosion
resistant and spark free in the exhausted air environment.
If you don't have a constant flow design your face velocity is going to vary all over the place, depending on sash position.
My squirrel cage fan blades are epoxy coated steel. I have never inspected my fan internals since installation (11 yrs ago). I just know that the
fan still works well.
3/8" SP looks a little weak to me but I don't know the diameter, shape, and length of your ducting. My fan delivers 400-500 cfm at 3/4" SP.
All of this guidance I have repeated several times in the hood threads to various posters. In the end I find that people just do whatever they had in
mind in the first place. Everybody has their own space and money constraints. As garage chemist said: "any ventilation is better than none."
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That last line, any ventilation is better than none, is a good one. Years ago I was part of a forum of Robert Bruce Thompson's before he changed it
all and it became a home schooling forum. There was a member there who called herself Xylene, and she often posted pics of her workups. Her fume
hood was a piece of round rigid tin duct, about 3" diameter, with a computer fan taped to the end of it closest to the reaction, and the other end was
poked out of the nearby open window. Seemed to work just fine for her.
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I'm continuing to look at fans for the fume hood that I want to build and today I found this one on Amazon. I think it looks pretty promising. $90 including shipping, 265 cfm, and the motor is out of the airflow. It looks like it
should be easy to hook up too since the intake and outlet are already flanged and should be easy to connect to any sort of duct that I would use.
Any input on it from the resident fume hood experts? Just want to make sure it's good before I buy it.
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