J. Phil Thien's Projects

They're each 1/8".  Two sheets for a sidewalk thickness of 1/4".  At first I was thinking one sheet, but all the good posts here got me thinking about bendability.  They're not attached to each other, they're just tucked into the same slot nice and tight.

Sorry, I should have been a bit clearer.  An impeller is going in there; it's for the blower.  (I just haven't attached the impeller or motor yet).   I was looking at the blower plans on the Pentz site, where he's got maybe a 1/2" roundover.  Just seeing the bellmouth used on the tophat opened my eyes to how one could maybe be used on the blower inlet, as well.  So I thought I'd give it a go.

Greetings all.  I wanted to share images of blower construction for my eventual DC system.  I was truly inspired by Retired2's separator build, so I've tried to incorporated several lessons from his experience into a blower build.. Namely:

   
• 2-layer polycarbonate sidewalls (instead of plexiglass)
• generous bellmouth transition from inlet
• outsourced the MDF machining to a 3rd party!  :-)

I just got the housing together this morning.  I still have a lot more to go obviously, so it will be quite a while until to I get to try it out, but I'm happy with what I've got together so far.


Retired2, thanks once again for posting details on your build!

-Bill.F