Diy shop air cleaner plans. So the air cleaner probably does a volume of about 260 cfm. It certainly works i can feel the air circulating in every part of. Diy shop air filter from a furnace blower. This is the inlet i read that better than to have the air cleaner in the middle of the shop it is better to have it again a long wall to establish a circular air flow in the shop.
Im not sure when ill get around to making one for my shop but now i know i have a motor for it. Assuming the shop air mixes perfectly for a time constant of 10 minutes the unit has to filter a volume equivalent to the workshop every 10 minutes. None of the ideas in this air cleaner are new i just read about the subject and i made my own. Diy shop air cleaner.
The project itself is a homemade shop air filter. But during heavy cutting or sanding operations it would be great to have an air cleaner that could effectively capture the airborne dust. R5zylstra added on 6242015. Clean your shops air of small dust particles.
Making an air cleaner for the shop workshop projects normally theres not much of an air quality problem in my shop since often the amount of dust thats created is minimal. Watch video hereafter building my new shop i soon realized that it was really hard to breathe with all the dust i was making. No need to buy some expensive system unless you have money to burn. Shawn was able to score a couple old furnace blower motors for free and the smaller of the two was to be the fan for his shop filter.
This diy air filter is made from a 20 inch box fan plywood and two 20 inch air filters. With my workshop about 400 square feet or about 35 square meters and about 65 feet 2 meters high i have a volume of 2600 cubic feet. After coughing up a lung i decided to hurry up and make a diy shop air cleaner before my lungs get caked with sawdust. Save money by building an air filtration system from scrap shop materials and a small fan.
Even better diy air cleaner and dust filter franklinwoodworks. How to build a diy air cleaner for your workshop repurpose a furnace blower and add filters for a do it yourself air cleaner that will work great in your shop by timothy dahl.