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Several years ago I built a drying box for drying freshly painted wood handles in the winter time.  It is a plywood box about 18" x 24" x 24" high with a drop on lid.  Low in the back, I cut a hole to slide a ceramic cube heater half way through the plywood and duct taped it in place. At the top, I drilled four 1 1/2" holes to allow good circulation.  The ceramic heater is thermostatically controlled so I have excellent heat control.  This is pretty simple to make, not expensive and should work great for drying leather.

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+1 on the food dehydrator.  It is capable of low heat (95-165 F) and has a gentle fan.  Almost like it was made to gently dry stuff ;-)

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Some great ideas here for drying boxes, and totally understand its weird finding searches on google methods of all kinds, I find myself doing that.

Anyway I couldn't resist so; whos making beef jerky with these.

I thought about hatching eggs initially, then the smoker came to mind but considering the flav didn't need to go that direction.

That brood heater is to cool, will have to check that out some more.

So the hoki smoker still is a viable option, and as mentioned the same protection from drippings. The old fridge or any kinda box easy to move if needed and some insulation is great, with these finds maybe a regular cheap hot plate (one pan ) from some box store.

have a good Friday you all

Floyd

 

 

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You may want to check out www.ingramproducts.com under their tab for "Panel Temp Control". the little heater units and fans are used in industrial control panels to keep out condensation. They can be set up to 140 degrees F and depending on the size of the box you can wire them together. Also can look for panel heaters in your search engine of choice and come up with others that are all in one with heater and fan together and some with a higher watt output.

We also used an old small refrigerator as an oven for welding rods to keep them dry, worked pretty good. Well insulated and some already have the light bulb socket inside.

Good Luck

Chris

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Updated the wiring schematic...  Added a couple of PWM variable fan speed controllers and figured out the wiring on the MH1210F thermostat...

 

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Well, . . . did a bunch of things down thru the summer, . . . never needed the "hot box" for what I was doing then.

Got to thinking about it today, . . . no real sun for hanging in the window, . . . 

Made two holsters today, . . . and the concept works great, . . . and no problem with it "overheating".

It dried one holster I dyed in about 2 hours, . . . dried the Resolene applications for 2 holsters in about an hour, . . . (I'm wearing one right now that I put resolene on earlier today, . . . normally would never have done this, . . . but the hot box makes it so workable).

Got two cell phone cases drying in there right now, . . . did the old water forming trick, . . . waiting for them to dry.  Been in there about 3 hours so far, . . .

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, . . . and the good news that the design works, . . . you want to copy, . . . jump in there, . . . but you gotta use your own wood.

May God bless,

Dwight

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If you can read, . . . thank a teacher.

If you are reading this in English, . . . thank a veteran.

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Still plugging away at this thing as time permits...

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CPU fan standoffs made from a 1/4" pex toilet supply line and
8/32 round head screw tapped into the plywood...

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Write up and resources...

 

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Looks good so far, msdeluca, . . . 

When I get these projects, . . . I usually procrastinate a while, . . . then get mad at myself, . . . just quit what I wanted to do, . . . and DO IT.

That's actually how mine came about earlier this year.

May God bless,

Dwight

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1 hour ago, Dwight said:

Looks good so far, msdeluca, . . . 

When I get these projects, . . . I usually procrastinate a while, . . . then get mad at myself, . . . just quit what I wanted to do, . . . and DO IT.

That's actually how mine came about earlier this year.

May God bless,

Dwight

Dwight,

Pretty much the way it works for me... although, waiting for projects to dry does provide a window of time to work on other things.  

Maybe the hot box isn't such a good idea after all...

Mike

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Ok now I have to build one of these when I move my office/leather work are to a bigger room.  This should be a big help.

Stu

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