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Step 10Square peg in a round hole
My biggest challenge was deciding how to fit my small hose to a huge blower outlet with what I had lying around the house.
OVERVIEW: I journeyed into the back shed and gathered all the tubing and bitz that I thought would be useful and began to fit a square peg into a round hole. I ended up using a piece of tube from an old washing machine, a garden hose connector, a small piece of 1/4 inch tubing and a brass gas nozzle and heaps of surgical tape. I turned the air blower on and got a nice breeze of strong air at the end of the tubing. The design will be fixed up later concerning the airflow obstructions etc that exist with this contraption. I aim to work on the venturi effect to further increase air output at the nozzle without increasing fan speed. I then simply hooked up the small tube into the nipple protruding from the solder iron handle.
OVERVIEW: I journeyed into the back shed and gathered all the tubing and bitz that I thought would be useful and began to fit a square peg into a round hole. I ended up using a piece of tube from an old washing machine, a garden hose connector, a small piece of 1/4 inch tubing and a brass gas nozzle and heaps of surgical tape. I turned the air blower on and got a nice breeze of strong air at the end of the tubing. The design will be fixed up later concerning the airflow obstructions etc that exist with this contraption. I aim to work on the venturi effect to further increase air output at the nozzle without increasing fan speed. I then simply hooked up the small tube into the nipple protruding from the solder iron handle.
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