For this we need the most ordinary junk, which can be found in any apartment: broken equipment, electronics, wires, pipe trimming, hoses and other "garbage", which you regretted throwing away. All this will suit us, to make a vacuum cleaner from a bottle with your own hands. Consider in stages, How to do it.
What is needed for this
In the first place, you need to get somewhere a small working electric motor. Without it, everything else will remain useless rubbish.
Technology often fails due to breakage of any one part, and everything else remains in order. Therefore it is possible, example, borrow a motor and other parts we need from our old cassette player, player, music center or children's toy.
To make a vacuum cleaner with your own hands, it is necessary to prepare the following details:
- Plastic bottle of appropriate size.
- Electric motor.
- Switch with wires.
- Power supply or battery.
- Power supply connector.
- Flexible hose or tube.
Tools and consumables:
- Stationery knife.
- Soldering iron.
- Solder.
- Hot melt adhesive.
- Scissors.
- Tin can or bottle.
- Marker.
- Ruler.
- Office buttons.
- Nylon screed or thick wire.
- Fine nylon mesh.
- Scotch, adhesive tape or plaster.
Preparation
The goals should be clearly defined at the outset, which should be performed by your homemade vacuum cleaner. Some features of its design will depend on it. If we need a small vacuum cleaner to clean the computer, then for this purpose the motor on batteries from a children's toy will be quite suitable. If we are going to make something more serious (example, household option) then the parts and materials used must be, in accordance, bigger and stronger.
The most careful approach is to choose the motor and power source for it. Their electrical characteristics must be exactly the same, otherwise problems may occur: one of two: or burn, or just won't work.
Step-by-step instructions
so, how to make a vacuum cleaner from a bottle? This requires a clear idea, what the device looks like and how it works. Take an irregularly shaped plastic bottle and cut off the neck from it in that place, where it expands. We need something like a lid, which can be firmly inserted back.
Then from a cut of a neck we measure an extra part and we cut off it with such calculation, to the remaining volume was enough for the dust collector and motor placement.
Any piece of soft metal of the right size is suitable for making a fan. It can be the bottom of the jar, tin lid or something, that can be easily cut with scissors, and then bend. Ideally, if we are lucky enough to find a ready-made propeller from a toy.
The diameter of the fan impeller should almost match the inside diameter of the bottle, for better absorption.
Cut a circle out of the can and mark it into eight equal parts. Next, along the marking lines make incisions with scissors, leaving close 5-10 mm to the center of the circle.
In the center we make a hole for the rotor of the motor, and the blades of the impeller are slightly bent at an angle so, so that they suck in air during rotation, and not vice versa.
We fasten together the fan and the rotor of the electric motor with hot glue or other means, trying not to distort the connection.
In the bottom we make openings for an air stream exit, simply by cutting off the protruding edges of the bottom with a stationery knife.
Then you need to attach an electric motor to the inside of the bottom. To do this, we need any plastic cover. The main thing, so that its size roughly coincides with the size of the motor.
It is necessary, to securely glue the electric motor to the bottom of the bottle with hot melt adhesive.
Homemade vacuum cleaner is almost ready, it remains to make a filter, which will separate the electric motor from the compartment for dust collection. To do this, we use a fine mesh, which is stretched on a nylon screed or wire, bent in a circle.
If the made filter is densely inserted into our self-made vacuum cleaner without additional fastenings, then you can leave it at that. Otherwise, you need to secure it to the holders, as which you can use the office buttons. The latter should be inserted into the bottle in a circle at the place of attachment of the filter and wrap them outside with adhesive tape.
To make the hose, we use a tube with a diameter slightly smaller than the neck of the bottle. You can wrap several layers of medical patch on the end of the tube, so that the tube fits snugly into the neck and does not slip out of it.
Suction nozzles can be made of anything: with a ballpoint pen, tubes from a dropper, syringes, plastic bottle - depending on their purpose. You can even use small replaceable nozzles from this vacuum cleaner, if they fit.
Now it remains only to resolve the issue with the power supply of the electric motor, namely: connect the switch and power supply to the wires, which can serve as batteries, battery or network adapter.
After that, our homemade vacuum cleaner is ready to use!
Read also: what you can do yourself with an old vacuum cleaner.
Conclusion
As you can see, make a small homemade vacuum cleaner or keyboard cleaner is quite simple. And, the device made by us can be easily transferred from place to place not only within the apartment, but also to use, example, in the garage to clean the seats and panels in the car.