Experimental Blower Housing for a Recycled Hard Drive

prusaprinters

<p>This started as an experiment to see what I could do with an old motor from a hard drive. I had a bunch of loose motors left over from harvesting the magnets from them. So I picked one of the motors that seemed to be the fastest, and least annoying sound wise and started sketching something up in Fusion 360, and came up with a fairly functional fume extractor! See the video below.<br><br>I am only sharing the Fusion file, as I have no way of knowing what size the hub will be on the drive you might choose to recycle. The motors I had on hand did not have a universal hub size. I also make no warranty to the proficiency of my Fusion skills. I am sure many will not find it pretty, also none of it is parametric, as I had no plans to mess with this further after I satisfied my curiosity. But a request was made in the comments of the video for the files, and it is easier to share here, than on YouTube.</p><p>There are 2 different fan designs in the file. See the pictures for examples.</p><p>Not only will you need an old hard drive for the motor, you will need some way of controlling the motor. I used this motor controller. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087YSGGQY">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087YSGGQY</a><br><br>Maybe you will use some entirely different motor? I would be interested in seeing it the makes!<br><br>&nbsp;</p><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5og9Zh77Npo"></oembed></figure><p>&nbsp;</p>