DIY inline carbon scrubber?

specialkayme

specialkayme

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I've been trying to find a DIY inline carbon scrubber, but have been unsuccessful so far. Anyone know where to find one?

Toying with the idea, I figured if you took a one foot section of PVC pipe about 6" in diameter, filled it with activated carbon, and clamped screening on both ends, then attached it to ducting, you would get a basic inline carbon scrubber. Make sense? Think it will work?
 
whatapothead

whatapothead

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you won't get enough air flow. carbon scrubbers only move air through about an inch or two of carbon. i wonder if you just put like 3 sections in that pvc each about 1" thick and filled those with carbon if it would work.

why not just get a regular scrubber? or make one?
 
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Meduser1980

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I had seen a link on here for making a carbon filter out of a roll obtained from local stores.

A. What is that link?
B. I have been unable to locate the 'roll' of that particular carbon filter.

Please help!
 
specialkayme

specialkayme

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whatapothead said:
you won't get enough air flow. carbon scrubbers only move air through about an inch or two of carbon. i wonder if you just put like 3 sections in that pvc each about 1" thick and filled those with carbon if it would work.

why not just get a regular scrubber? or make one?
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Regular inline carbon scrubbers are usually at least 30" or longer. I would like to use mine in a good old Mills Pride cabinet, with an internal width of 28". That would mean the scrubber needs to fit in the cab, plus the ducting, leaving hardly enough room.

Typical carbon scrubbers that will fit inside the cab either intake the air from the sides, or likewise release the air from the sides. With a cool tube, putting the carbon filter before the light coats the light in the filter, but putting it after the light would require me to put the filter outside of the cab. I can't do that for filter reasons.

This would mean I would need to put the filter after the light, but before it leaves the cab, i.e. the need for a smaller inline carbon filter. Make sense?
 
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