Making a home made fume a Hood

icecool · Insistent Chemist

I guess it is sufficient.
I invited SWIM to come over and he tested the fume hood Laughing

When working with ether normally everything stinks like hell.
Now you don't smell it only SWIM smelled it since he was working with it and standing in front of the fumehood.
So I guess that it is fine Wink

thanks for the advice though.
The TL-tube on the top will be made soon as this desk lamp on top of the fumehood isn't looking that professional Razz

Alice · Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:51 pm

hmmmm
i c noone mention another problem that can acure
all fan parts must be from non-reactive mater
like if the blades r metal they will be oxydised if u fuming some acids or stuff like that
ceramic blades r good solution

also another idea for fuming........
all of u guys probobly used those water vacum pumps
well fume can be done using the same idea...

T like pvc....

strong blower blow into this side of it ->T
bottom exit of T is goes to fumehood
and out from the other side of the T T->
as air flows in horisontal pipe it will suck air from the vertical pipe and blow it out
blower can be placed in far position and no vapors will ever reach it

icecool · Insistent Chemist

You can buy a fan for 17 euro it isn't that expensive.
And most of them are made from plastic since metal might give sparks and you need a sparkless fan because of ether fumes etc.

thenewrunne · Chemically Balanced

Alice! What an awesome and simple idea. Why didn't I think of that?!?!