HL smoker pump replaced with a fan

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Re: HL smoker pump replaced with a fan

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capt midnight wrote:I've done this mod to a couple of my smokers. Works fantastic! Now I'm gonna have to put the smokers back in the rest of my tanks!

Bill
I agree since I did this MOD I've started to reinstall smokers in my tanks tooImage
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Re: HL smoker pump replaced with a fan

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Holy necro-threading.. :P But eh.. It works like a charm. Question remains: Why didn't Í think of it before. I got oodles of small fans, sourced from anywhere I saw some. I work in ICT as a storage specialist, so plenty of peculiar old hardware around, inclúding tiny fans from deceased KVM-controllers from the time Moses descended from the mountain... :D (old servers and PU's are a great source for odd-shaped aluminium too..)

Silent, deadly..eh.. I mean.. it smokes só nicely now. And without that incessant, infernal rattling.
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Jay-Em wrote:Holy necro-threading.. :P But eh.. It works like a charm. Question remains: Why didn't Í think of it before. I got oodles of small fans, sourced from anywhere I saw some. I work in ICT as a storage specialist, so plenty of peculiar old hardware around, inclúding tiny fans from deceased KVM-controllers from the time Moses descended from the mountain... :D (old servers and PU's are a great source for odd-shaped aluminium too..)

Silent, deadly..eh.. I mean.. it smokes só nicely now. And without that incessant, infernal rattling.
..All the more reason for raising useful threads such as this one, from the dead, necromancer :D :thumbup: The archives of this forum are more like the Greek Underworld; and all that's needed is a ouija board to summon up some useful ghouls :haha:
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How I hate photobucket! Just tried to pull the pics out but I can’t even access them!

I still have the Mk2 at home so I’ll take some photos and post them up later.
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Last edited by Crispy on Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: HL smoker pump replaced with a fan

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Son of a gun-ner wrote:Thank you so much. Sorry to be a pain.

Even though you can't retrieve the pictures from your account, can you see them? If you can, you could always take screen shots of them ;)

Mick.
Nope, can only see the thumbnails and when I click on them I get the friendly ransom note!

Anyway, here’s a few pics of the Mk2 fan mod. I removed the smoke pot from the tray it shares with the pump motor. Cut the heating element wires apx 2 inches out and cut off all of the pump piston chamber, filing it flat. I opened up the hole in the chamber up with a 10mm drill to allow more air flow. Then just superglued the 25mm 12V fan over this side making sure I didn’t cover or glue onto the top plate so it can still be opened. Finally I soldered both the positive wires from the fan and heating element to a plugged lead cut from the original smoke unit, and repeated that with the negative wires. No need for the square of PCB as it’s now a much smaller, neater unit.

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Here’s a clip of it running.

https://youtu.be/1q30RUAo4nE



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Re: HL smoker pump replaced with a fan

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Okay chaps,

I just have to ask.............

Wouldn't it be easier and faster to just buy an MK1 smoker?
I used to be indecisive. Now, I'm not sure..
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Re: HL smoker pump replaced with a fan

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I got my fans off of ebay for less than a dollar apiece. The smokers I had on hand. 10 minutes with a dremel tool and hot glue gun, Bob's your uncle!

So I'm guessing not cheaper, and pretty easy.

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Re: HL smoker pump replaced with a fan

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Ditto to that ^

It’s really not that hard once you know what you’re doing and takes up a lot less space in your tank.
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