Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:11 am
Thanks for the nice comment John its always great hear.
Hi Max yes you are correct they are toilet plungers that i am using for the controll valves i filled the inside with a piece of wood to stiffen it up a bit. i read that somewhere here on the board thanks for the tip !
On the boards with the orifice it is a rotating disk. I know everyone cringes when they here that but i had to try it for myself. Now back to the disk it is sandwiched between two boards of equal thickness and has a spacer ring to get the clearance for the disk to rotate. This ring was actually cut off the same material i used for the disk. As for the machining of the orifice holes i used a circle cutter i bought at sears and very painfully kept making adjustments to the cutter to get my orifice sizing to the measurments that i wanted.
On the question of the plans is ? I found the msd article and it really got me goin but if it wasn't for this site i would be as far as i am right now .
Thanks Bruce for having such a great interest in Flowbenches
I didn't really buy any plans just studied this great site for a couple of months and figured that this is my first bench build so i went with the msd plans and made a bunch of changes to suit my needs and away we went. My box dimensions are 40" tall with out the 2" top plenum 32" wide and 30" deep. It will accept 11 mix and match vacuum cleaner motors that so many people donated to my addiction. So far i only have 8 motors so there is still room to expand .
sorry for the long post. Thanks Jake
Hi Max yes you are correct they are toilet plungers that i am using for the controll valves i filled the inside with a piece of wood to stiffen it up a bit. i read that somewhere here on the board thanks for the tip !
On the boards with the orifice it is a rotating disk. I know everyone cringes when they here that but i had to try it for myself. Now back to the disk it is sandwiched between two boards of equal thickness and has a spacer ring to get the clearance for the disk to rotate. This ring was actually cut off the same material i used for the disk. As for the machining of the orifice holes i used a circle cutter i bought at sears and very painfully kept making adjustments to the cutter to get my orifice sizing to the measurments that i wanted.
On the question of the plans is ? I found the msd article and it really got me goin but if it wasn't for this site i would be as far as i am right now .
Thanks Bruce for having such a great interest in Flowbenches
I didn't really buy any plans just studied this great site for a couple of months and figured that this is my first bench build so i went with the msd plans and made a bunch of changes to suit my needs and away we went. My box dimensions are 40" tall with out the 2" top plenum 32" wide and 30" deep. It will accept 11 mix and match vacuum cleaner motors that so many people donated to my addiction. So far i only have 8 motors so there is still room to expand .
sorry for the long post. Thanks Jake