Thread: Come laugh at the idiot

AHH me forgets the ramp, I can't recall if you put one in but if you did that will have to come out and be ummm re-ramped


Pete

It had been pondered, but I figured it was going to be a heck of a lot of trouble. I've always found fixing an existing thing to be exceptionally harder and more stressful than doing it right in the first place. I'm never happy with the end result either. They way it was assembled and put in the metal frame also makes it extremely difficult to remove without damage (a mistake I won't make again).

It's too late anyway as I've already trashed it. Gutted it like a deer with the angle grinder and stomped it flat...which was mildly cathartic

Originally Posted by RedShirtGuy

Gutted it like a deer with the angle grinder and stomped it flat...which was mildly cathartic

Mate, I feel your pain. nothing like wasting all that time energy and materials. I hope it made you feel better. Hopefully MK2 will be a more rewarding experience.

Doug

What a pity you already scrapped it.
If I understand your sketches and photos correctly, you would have been able to remove the cyclone intake and reattach it 'pointing' the other way into the resulting hole:
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Originally Posted by RedShirtGuy

It had been pondered, but I figured it was going to be a heck of a lot of trouble. I've always found fixing an existing thing to be exceptionally harder and more stressful than doing it right in the first place. I'm never happy with the end result either. They way it was assembled and put in the metal frame also makes it extremely difficult to remove without damage (a mistake I won't make again).

It's too late anyway as I've already trashed it. Gutted it like a deer with the angle grinder and stomped it flat...which was mildly cathartic

I can relate to that, I heaved a grease gun that would not work, cheap crap, never found it later.
When I built mine I put flanges on each section for ease of installation and should I ever need to do anything to it, which admittadly is doubtful but you never know, it is another level of complexity tho
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The motor is flanged onto a flat plate which is then fixed to the fan housing, I can remove the motor/fan as one unit realtively easy,(this is the most likely case if the motor does the blue smoke thing) the fan housing is flanged onto the cylinder and the cone is flanged onto the bottom of the cylinder, the cone length is 3d (1200) long, I need to think about how to put all this together bymyself so sections was the go



Pete

Originally Posted by jhovel

If I understand your sketches and photos correctly, you would have been able to remove the cyclone intake and reattach it 'pointing' the other way into the resulting hole:

If you look at RedShirtGuy's cyclone you will see his intake it at a angle from the primary vertical axis - this means it cannot just be flipped but would have to be modified significantly to fit at the same angle but on the opposite side. Unfortunately detaching the intake, blocking the hole and modifying and reattaching the intake and leaving the inside of the cyclone nice and smooth will be not much less work than remaking the whole thing.