Easy Stir Plate

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Easy Stir Plate

Post by jtmwhyte » Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:44 pm

I got this idea when browsing for computer parts one day. It is literally the easiest project I recall completing.

I used this fan from Amazon and a small electrical box I had laying around. I drilled 5 holes in the box and attached the fan and magnets and voila! Still have to clean up the glue, but it works like a charm with a built in potentiometer.

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Re: Easy Stir Plate

Post by Celiacbrew » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:01 pm

Where did you get the potentiometer? My stir plate uses a muffin fan and could really use something to dampen it better than the dimmer plug I use.
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Re: Easy Stir Plate

Post by jtmwhyte » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:56 pm

It's all part of the fan I ordered. You unscrew the cages and it all comes apart. I simply drilled a hole in the electrical box to fit the wire through and gorilla glued the knob assembly to the box
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Tap 1: Festa Brew Scotch Ale
Tap 2:
"Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain -
Quaintest thoughts - queerist fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today." ~ Poe

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Re: Easy Stir Plate

Post by bluenose » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:11 am

cool beans... all I need is a potentameter thingy, but too lazy to figure out how to figure out the specs I need
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