DIY easy MINI rotary cloner - OregonMeds is crazy

I'm going to screw around again... (Plans just changed.)

One cabinet. 4' tall 4'wide ?' deep.

One pyrex bake a round

4x 36" plastic hula hoops or larger, might be able to find up to 42 or more inch..

however many 3" pvc pipes or 3" pvc fencepost pieces or 2x4 pvc you want as trays

Cut trays 3' long

Glue trays and hula hoops together so that the trays are on the inside of 4 hoops.

Whole assembly sits on two rotating guide bars that spin with rasied parts to hold wheel in the proper place.

Dunks in resevoir tray once per 45 min.



picture is from omegagarden.com



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Sounds simple and cheap enough to me... Forget the stuff I planned in the next bunch of posts, this is easier and better.

Waiting to see this . You never know what works and what dosn't till you try
Good Luck and Happy Growing
Green Dave

Well let me see... Still working out the ideas in my head, but so far the plan seems to be going in this direction:

Cut a hole in the back center of the cab larger than pyrex

screw a wood board large enough to have three rollerblade wheels to hold glass in place inside front of the cab for a pivot. Might make front piece hinged so it flips up and glass and wheel can be inserted/removed from front. But I'm not sure I want to go to that much trouble yet.

glass rim sits ouside one wheel and on top of two others - can't slide forward and back

"" back of the cab.

Glass spins

Cut two flat wood wheels

chicken wire between wheels to connect the wheels and hold the media

light bulb mount is free of glass with fan in rear as close as will still allow to spin.

bbq motor spins one of the rollerblade wheels.

wheel is placed inside from front, side, or top - removeable

shim glass and wheel together so they are locked together.

Vent fans for cab... active exhaust computer fans on top, passive intakes on bottom.

plastic tray in bottom

Did I miss anything? (Light leaks, yea you know I'll try to flower some in it too.)

Spinning glass with wheel attached is patent pending, all rights reserved, blah blah blah. 4:57 am PST Sunday Jan 11th 2009
But of course that doesn't mean it's not free to the DIY community...

(hehe)

i think its really possible i will work up a scetch and post it here!

Cool thanks! That will help.

The chicken wire I had pictured folded around 2x4's to shape it into an accordian shape with open center, and that attached to an outer flat piece, and the wheel has nails all around the outside so that you just lay it flat, load up cubes, wrap around the two weels and tie the open ends closed with a couple little springs. So it loads and unloads and comes apart super easy to work on them or whatever.

I think just the action of rolling it up might be enough to hold the cubes but if not it can have a t shape in front.

Plastic sheet could be applied over the chicken wire/cube assembly before clones are poked in, so we don't just grow a bunch of algae.

Sides of wheel has some chicken wire to it just enough so the plants don't just rub the sides of the box.

Any idea not patented that I post here belongs to me, all rights reserved... etc etc etc.

So sayeth the pirate.

lolol posting anything on the web including a text description of your idea will void a patent. in order to get a patent that is defensible your idea must be new and inventive and not just a material change.

Well we'll see about that. If so I cry away the pennies I'd have made...

im having trouble visualizing this. I think i might understand it. Basically, a cool tube is in a cab, and the wooden planter wheel rotates on the rollerblade wheels around the glass? That sounds like a pretty interesting idea. i'll keep an eye on this one.

And there is a doubled over chicken wire guard on ea side of the wheel strip... keeping the wet cubes from being in contact with the wood wheels.

macdadyabc said:

im having trouble visualizing this. I think i might understand it. Basically, a cool tube is in a cab, and the wooden planter wheel rotates on the rollerblade wheels around the glass? That sounds like a pretty interesting idea. i'll keep an eye on this one.

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The glass/wheel assembly rotates as one piece. It's the glass riding on the wheels. Cooltube has to have its temp kept low enough to not melt wheels or idea bad.

oh, ok.yah, melted wheels would be bad. I thought rollerblade wheels were like eurothane or something with a higher melting point? Idk how hot the glass will get with a 250 hps.

I don't think it'll be a problem if I wire a safety in...

Here is a pic of one wheel, with nails around the edge sticking out to hold the tray which wraps around the two wheels with springs at the end to hold it all together.

Here is why I do not draw.

Here is how the glass rides in the wheels.

Rides on top of the two lower wheels on each end and slightly between the two upper ones keeping it from shifting around.

A block can slide under the wheel to raise it just slightly and hold it all in place before opening the front support for easy removal and installation.
That's how you get to the plants...

How long is a cooltube?

Shit and I thought I would never need math... Figuring out the circumference of a wheel times the width of the cooltube minus the thickness of spacing on everything to find my estimated tray square footage and crap.

If only I were less stoned right now...

Eventually the tray will be double the cooltube width and the whole wheel will flare out. Hourglass shaped from the center if you know what I mean.
Or if not double whatever works out best.

I guess whatever would fit in a 4x4 cube shaped box. Stackable. But then it would need a lot more light and not sure about the heat with respect to rooting in a temperature and humidity controlled box. Maybe I should think about a 3x3x3 box, to get two high in a regular indoor room.



Here is the shape of the wheel in the future with the cooltube. This would be effectively one piece. Tray wraps around it. For now it will just be flat sided though.

i must be too high or something but im havin a really hard time getting a mental picture of this it sounds like it could be cool.....imma go read through it once more so my high ass might be able to get it haha

I'm stoned enough to think of it... Too stoned to get technical or explain it well though probably.