Turbine Inspired Center Console DIY
While I'm waiting till tomorrow to do some more body work on the substructure, I started working on the "turbine". I had the perfect things for it too. I have some plastic electric fans that were a total flop for cooling. They didn't pull barely anything through the rad compared to my steel fan. Put the steel fan back, and decided I'd be sitting on these a while before they sold.
So I have a 7" diameter one, and a 10" diameter one. I'll be making them both 7" diameter which is a 1 1/2" diameter reveal of "turbine" on either side of the tube which I think will be just perfect. I'll be painting them silver then finishing with a chrome strip of 3m stick on door trim for each blade to give it a more defined look. Then I'll add a black stripe next to each chrome piece to make it look like a lot more blades are there. Should look pretty good. Then I'll bend a piece of 1/2" x3/16" steel I have into a 7" diameter arc to trim the outside of it and glue it to the blades somehow. Should look pretty trick.
I took the sacrificial fans out of their housings and tossed the housings and motors.
Then I sanded them a bit, and hit them with some silver spray paint.
They will sit overlapping eachother and the fan blades cover up the empty space of eachother perfectly. I think this will work out well, and hopefully it will look the part when done. If not I have a couple other ideas for the "turbine".
While I'm waiting till tomorrow to do some more body work on the substructure, I started working on the "turbine". I had the perfect things for it too. I have some plastic electric fans that were a total flop for cooling. They didn't pull barely anything through the rad compared to my steel fan. Put the steel fan back, and decided I'd be sitting on these a while before they sold.
So I have a 7" diameter one, and a 10" diameter one. I'll be making them both 7" diameter which is a 1 1/2" diameter reveal of "turbine" on either side of the tube which I think will be just perfect. I'll be painting them silver then finishing with a chrome strip of 3m stick on door trim for each blade to give it a more defined look. Then I'll add a black stripe next to each chrome piece to make it look like a lot more blades are there. Should look pretty good. Then I'll bend a piece of 1/2" x3/16" steel I have into a 7" diameter arc to trim the outside of it and glue it to the blades somehow. Should look pretty trick.
I took the sacrificial fans out of their housings and tossed the housings and motors.
Then I sanded them a bit, and hit them with some silver spray paint.
They will sit overlapping eachother and the fan blades cover up the empty space of eachother perfectly. I think this will work out well, and hopefully it will look the part when done. If not I have a couple other ideas for the "turbine".
