Peter's Bench - My Flow Bench

[Peter]

Here are some pics of my pitot style bench, bruce is making a calcibration plate for me and I"m going to paint the mdf next.
8 Ametek 116457-00 motors, controlled by 4 - 26 amp speed controls, 0-6 in. Dwyer inclined mano with 0-100% scale.

Bench

[Peter]

Ok, try this again

Attached Image

[Peter]

Third time

[bruce]

........ Is a charm!

Looks good, thanks for sharing!

[Peter]

OK, now I've got it, this is the air box

[Peter]

And this is the inter cage that the mdf attaches to. 1.5 x 1.5 with welded nuts. It should make it pretty sturdy.

[Nick]

Turn up the heat!!!!!!!! It's only 60 in there. Just Kidding.

Looks good, I would like to see how it turns out.

[larrycavan]

Peter

Looking at the air box it looks like there are holes on both sides. Are you going to mount motors opposing each other in there?


Larry C

[Thomas Vaught]

I too would be interested in how the flow works inside the box.

Very nice work. The steel framework is great. You might need a support in the center of the panels though as the forces can get pretty high.

Tom V.

[wing64k]

Peter,Where did you get the black tube and collar on the side of the box and what size is it?
Thanks,Dean

[Peter]

4 motors will be mounted on each side.

The blue and black ring is a 4' toliet ring available at Lowe's or Home Depot, it's supposed to be self sealing, but you'll see how I will take care of that in later photos.

As for support between the motors, I'll see if that will be necessay when I get it up and running, that's why I made the panels removeable.

[Thomas Vaught]

So Peter, can I assume that the drums will be inside the box and the windings will go through the hole and discharge the air to the outside?

Tom V.

[Peter]

Correct, I'm only doing intake to start, intake and exhaust will be later.

[Peter]

Here is my valve assembly, I got this idea from bruce's bench.

It will mount just in front of the air box.