DIY flowbench?

Shirley, Mark R MarkRShirley at eaton.com
Wed Jul 11 12:48:29 GMT 2001


Why not use a couple of big furnace blowers?  They move a lot of air.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Fahlgren [mailto:efahl at adams.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:15 AM
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Subject: Re: DIY flowbench?
> 
> 
> John Dammeyer wrote:
> > 
> > I'd look at using a sawdust collection system without the 
> bags.  Those
> > centrifugal blowers are rated in CFM so it should be pretty 
> easy to spec
> > in a 650cfm or 1000cfm dust collector that can spend most 
> of it's time
> > keeping the wood working shop safe and part of the time serving as a
> > major vac source.
> 
> I've considered using a leaf blower to power one, they can pull
> quite a vacuum.  One of my kids used on once to build a wind
> tunnel of sorts for model rockets.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Fahlgren                            Mechanical Dynamics, Inc
> efahl at adams.com                          Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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