Fan fried goodness
Everyone seems to be buying an air fryer at the moment. I'll wait until they're out of fashion to pick up one. That's how I got my awesome bread maker!
Meanwhile, in my little corner of the garage where I solder up unsuspecting components, I try not to breathe in any of the nastiness that comes up from the boards being tortured.
One of the first things I "made" in the workshop was a solder fume extractor fan which comprised a re-purposed computer cooling fan and funnel as shown.
In a recent experiment I unwittingly fried this extractor fan by running a few more amps through it than recommended (>160mA). The hunt was then on for a replacement fan. I do have some new 12V fans bought for cooling projects, but they are way smaller than this application requires.
But for awhile during this replacement process I did feel like I was in a three little bears skit, surrounded by fans pulled from 2nd hand computer cases that were either two small or two big - none that were "just right".
Finally in a dark corner of the garage, inside a power supply inside a old computer, I found what I was looking for and cobbled the whole extractor back together. I'm gonna miss the smell of solder in the mornings...
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