Stanley blower, lasko or harbor freight

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Greggl4321

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• Mar 31, 2015

• #1

What's the best blower for the price? Are they all about the same?

 

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T.H.Cammo

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• Mar 31, 2015

• #2

I have had a Stanley Blower for several years, at the time I didn't know there were similar products to choose from.

I don't use it anymore because it's "over-kill" for the size of my recent grows. It was a hell of a bargain for the forty-some odd $'s I spent for it.

 

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Greggl4321

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• Mar 31, 2015

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Would this be quiet? As quiet as the harbor freight model? Does the harbor freight model need to be modified like the Stanley?

 

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T.H.Cammo

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• Apr 1, 2015

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I can't comment on the Harbor Freight model, but I never made any modifications to my Stanley blower. I just did some "creative duct-work" to make it part of my system. What kind of modifications are you talking about?

The blower itself is really pretty quiet. Any noise is mostly the "Whooshing" air. At least, that's the way I remember it.

 

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churchhaze

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• Apr 2, 2015

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lasko and stanley are made by the same manufacturer. I have one of the new laskos and I love it. The old stanley was finally starting to wobble itself to pieces after a very long lifespan. The lasko is smoooth.

 

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Greggl4321

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• Apr 2, 2015

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T.H.Cammo said:

I can't comment on the Harbor Freight model, but I never made any modifications to my Stanley blower. I just did some "creative duct-work" to make it part of my system. What kind of modifications are you talking about?

The blower itself is really pretty quiet. Any noise is mostly the "Whooshing" air. At least, that's the way I remember it.

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Attaching ducts, used rivets before to some sort of,ventilation fixture that was folded over the orifice.

Some people cut out certain parts of the lassos to get better suction or something.,I've only seen that type of mod with the lassos if I remember right

 

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T.H.Cammo

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• Apr 2, 2015

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The Stanley Blower has an oval "horn/mouth" (with adjustable angle) that the air exits through. As I recall, it was about 10" by 4". The only modification I made (if you can call it that) was to creat an adaptor between the 10" by 4" blower exit and the 8" ducting I used.

All I did was take a sheet of fairly thin, flexible, plastic and wrapped it around both pieces. I trimmed the plastic, to the right shape as I went along. Then I tied it up real good with string to hold it in place. When I was happy with the way it looked, I drilled a few small holes where the plastic overlapped. Then I took the whole thing apart, added some glue in the appropriate places and re-assembled the thing using small nuts and bolts in the previousely mentioned holes.

When the adaptor was finished, it was held in place with good old Duct Tape.