good morning YouTube so this is the area by my lathe where I do a lot of work in my shop in
the summer it gets kind of hot and sticky over here is a it doesn't get a lot of airflow if I
have a garage door open there'll be a little bit of airflow coming through this way but it
doesn't get back in this corner I was just kind of thinking it would be nice if I could put a
fan up under here ultimately I'm gonna build some cabinets up over the top here I've got
the frame in place for the cabinets I've got some of these PC case fans 120 millimeter and
something like right there and if we look up there right in there I've got 12 volts coming off of my
solar battery bank these things take 12 volts so I could probably design something you know
get some metal and spend a couple hours making something for that but let's go take a look on
the computer and see if we can find something that might work there okay so I jumped over to
Thingiverse and search for 120-millimeter PC case fan bracket and this is what I found here
so this was put up by corrugator super-chill in March 2015 I went over here and downloaded
the files and I came over here to Kira and I was able to fit all the parts again I think this is
the floor or table standing bracket and then this is the wall bracket I wasn't sure exactly which I
needed so I basically printed one each and then you have to print two of each side bracket theme
and then I printed out the grill I might end up using one of my metal grills but I figure I
print theirs out and see which one works the best okay here we are a couple hours of printing and
here's the 120 millimeter case fan bracket parts this is ABS plastic I did not use any brim or
supports and the very corners of some of these have lifted up a little bit because abs you do
get a little bit of warping so you can see like that corner if those came out pretty good so let's
go down stairs and see if we can figure out how to put this thing together okay there we go YouTube
I'll put together just a couple of longer drywall screws to go through so you go through the grille
through the bracket and then out the other side one of those goes on each side here and then I
used a couple of the fan shroud screws here on the top to hold the grille in place and then you use
a couple of small wood screws I use number 6 by 5/8 but I mentioned there's a metric equivalent
to that the rotating parts snap in there these brackets on the side snap over the base and then
you just run a couple of screws in there to hold it in place and then for power what I did I put
at 5.5 by 2.1 millimeter power jack over here drilled an 8 millimeter or 5/16 hole and then
I run my wire over here I used the original fan connector on this side and then this particular
fan gives you a mating connector it's mainly meant as an extension or a Wye cable but I just cut that
off and I soldered that to a small switch here and so this will be mounted upside down actually this
way so what I'll do for mounting I'll show you the out in a bit I'll put a screw and a large washer
here and that'll let me rotate this but for now you can set it up as a floor stand and let's flip
the switch there we go so next step is I got to install this out underneath the cabinet and we'll
see how it works okay I got the fan mounted I just reused a wood screw that I had holding that strap
and I put a fender washer and that spans the gap between the two parts of the floor stand so that
way I can rotate the fan to point towards me and then it's got the rotating on that axis so that
gives me two adjustments I can make as far as having it point at my face I put my switch up
here so I can reach it from underneath the cabinet opening there kind of added a little bit of an air
duct here I took some aluminum duct tape and then cut off half of the backing paper and stuck that
around the outside of the fan kind of direct the air more forward switches right here flip
it on and there I've got the fan running and it's running on solar power you have the cable coming
out of the air comes down through the back of the cabinet and then up to my power distribution point
there so that fans running on solar power so yeah that was pretty easy found the fan bracket there
I had the fans left over I had one of these coax power plugs the fans came with all the cabling and
connectors you need I had a whole bag of these switches and I had a bunch of this 14 - speaker
wire from monoprice I did not have to purchase a single thing and yeah it made everything up
out of things on hand yeah I'll put a link to this on Thingiverse in the video description if
you want to print one of those yourself really nice design with these locking rotating hinge
there and the the lights here are solar powered and I have my solar powered spotlight over here
but yeah there's the spotlight over there that lights up the Chuck area of the lathe and then
I've got the overhead lights or solar and now the cooling fan is solar but yeah I hope you
enjoyed that great model on Thingiverse hats off to the designer yeah if you have any questions
about that to post up in the comment section below and be sure to check out some of the
other videos I'll put them recommended videos on the side there and as always thanks for watching
you