Homemade condensers

[Duniek]

hello
a few weeks ago I bought a big condenser on auction portal. I paid for this one about ~17$




So, I planning cut this monster



cut lines


Five 12cm condensers from half a big one condenser









regards
Duniek

[ayrtonsenna]

very nice.

[vikikz]

the fins of the condenser looks like spaggeti how do you think, how the ventilator gona push the air through that mess?

[n00b 0f l337]

You mean the fan?

Also, how hard to re-braze that up? I was thinking about running one of my condnesers thru a table saw.

[kayl]

nice job, Ya were lucy you could find 180 bends that fit the gap bewteen the tubes.

[runmc]

Not bad at all I use a wire brush to straighten up the fins.

[n00b 0f l337]

Thats a good idea RunMC. I wonder also how much easier it would be to make it a parralell condenser now.

[cold_ice]

If the wire brush doens't work you can try a fin comb. Should be available at every HVAC shop.

[epion2985]

lol ghetto, nice

[the_new_guy]

must have taken a long time

[wdrzal]

fin combs work great. you do need the correct FPI(fins per inch)

[quintus]

i use a screw driver takes longer but i get the condens like new!
cheap as hel this way1
regards,
q

[[486]]

DANG!!! what blade did you use and was it used in reverse? When i tried to cut one with a low tooth count blade spinning backwards and the condensor got ripped to shreds.

[quintus]

DANG!!! what blade did you use and was it used in reverse? When i tried to cut one with a low tooth count blade spinning backwards and the condensor got ripped to shreds.

carefull... i did it myself with that machine with disk for cutting metals dunno the the EN name.

damn now i realise u got 10 pieces out of it? that will be 2$ per piece plus the u bends, for sure the cost is under 5$ a pice?!?!?
reg, q

[Ssilencer]

Not bad at all I use a wire brush to straighten up the fins.

You can buy one of these in any ref shop, I think the name is "comb" in english?

They come for dif sizes

[Duniek]

another one

before:



after:

[jinu117]

Now, that is an amazing rework of condenser

[littleowl]

wow that makes me want to go out and try to do one!! Great work

[[XC] MarioMaster]

yeah i've been wanting to do that for a while now, i've got the guts from an air conditioner and should make a couple nice small condensors

[Duniek]

condenser and alu (2mm thick) panels


home bending

one side of condensor

update soon

[n00b 0f l337]

Do you have proper U-bends?

[Rockhammer]

Sweet work. That is my kind of $$ saving project. Congratulations. Did you make the u-bends or buy them?

[Duniek]

Do you have proper U-bends?

i have some ubends from half of big condeser

[[XC] MarioMaster]

hmm, i should ask the shop teacher at school if i could use the band saw for a bit - i could use some smaller condensors

[johann]

This is amazing usage of limited resources man. Good stuff