Discarded Furnace Blower to Shop Fan Conversion

Today we investigate the ease at which something worth nothing becomes something very useful. As the title suggests, an old and discarded 110 volt blower assembly out of Brand X gas furnace is transformed into a shop accessory. This is one that's at least 30 years old, but its also got plenty of life left in it as a device used daily during the hot summer months to help a fella (or gal) keep their cool.
This is a little fan that's capable of delivering 1,000 cubic feet of air (CFM) per minute on high speed. So figure the actual size of your particular shop by multiplying the lengh x width x height. When you get than number divide it by 1,000 and you'll see how many minutes of running it takes to move enough air to completely fill your shop. For instance, a shop 30'x30'x10'=9,000. So every nine minutes it will move enough air to totally fill every square inch of your shop. That would be more important if we were looking to this as an exhaust fan for removal of dust and /or fumes. In this case,we are only wanting to create air movement across the area where we are concentrating our work, so the satisfaction level is much easier to attain.
Unfortunately this is a fan that I put together for this function at least 10 years ago and the work to accomplish it is not done on the video. We do, however, cover the vast majority of details to do the work. A simple two speed wiring diagram is shown only for the convenience of indicating exactly what I do to make these things work, and is not intended to be a DIY instructional video. As always ,I do NOT provide Do It Yourself videos and do not intend for them to be used as road maps for electrical work. If you do have the basic knowledge and understanding of electrical circuitry you should be able to easily figure out for yourself a safe way to accomplish the same action. #blower, #shop, #wiring