I wen the hacky route and put together some fan guards, a 12v fan, and a
carbon filter. I have no idea of the effectiveness, but it does get it away
from my nose. and mouth.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Erik Walthinsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/01/2014 08:08 AM, Mr Yum wrote:
>
>> Guess you you re-purpose your clothes dryer vent hose ;)
>>
>
> That's what I did for my computer... reversed all the fans so the airflow
> went out the back, then used a short length to connect the back fan to my
> attic.  Take a one-way flapper valve, remove the flapper and one end of the
> tube, and you have something that perfectly fits (screw holes and all) onto
> a 120mm fan.  A quick-disconnect fitting on the wall to the attic makes it
> trivial to remove the computer from its location.
>
> That plus a ginormous passive CPU heatsink (which is right up against the
> relevant rear case fan) solved both the waste heat and noise problems I had.
>
> As for fume removal, one of these days I'm going to get that solved with
> the same basic approach, although that will go through to the outside
> rather than the attic.  Main thing I haven't figured out yet is the best
> way to build a fume hood for the toaster itself.
>
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