DIY easy MINI rotary cloner - OregonMeds is crazy

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maximusbudicus

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OregonMeds said:
rust won't be a problem... Got it solved.
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its not even about rust. friend of mine killed all his plants in days after putting a cooling coil in his nute res that was made out of aluminum instead of stainless. took just a few days. kept telling me that he didnt change anything lolol. but i knew he had to of.

just my 2 centz
 
OregonMeds

OregonMeds

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Yea, I found that out.

I looked up every bit of info there is on them, found the instructions for assembly and operation of this one:
http://www.h2odynamic.com/PDF/B-Pod_Assembly_Manual.pdf

http://www.h2odynamic.com/PDF/B-Pod_Basic_Operating_Instructions.pdf

Just the pictures and the explanation of how to use it is enough to copy one entirely.

But after looking into how they are loaded and all that it would take to convert it to use something other than rockwool... Rockwool is the only practical medium for this really, and after figuring the cost of all that rockwool required to even do any run at all I'm getting pretty settled on the idea of a vertical aero system instead. Vertical aero yields can be in the same league, but would be a lot less costly to run over time and wouldn't limit the choice of strain.

And it wasn't until really getting into how they work that I could tell cloning in them wouldn't make sense even if you did make it work. You clone in plugs and then assemble the plug into a cube during loading the things up. In that case you don't need all the space for hundreds of 4x4 or 3x3 cubes to root, just space for a bunch of little plugs and that would make more sense in a standard layout.

Just for the record my solution to rust was either plastic parts for the drum or plastic coating with truck bedliner spray if that didn't poison things in the res too. Anyway all of these require very frequent res changes anyway with so much rockwool on them. They're not set it and forget it things or for the average hobbyist.
 
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feedtheworld

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Hey, I had attempted this kind of set up about 2 yrs ago, except I used trampoline frames, attatched to pvc pipe, and had it suspended by a set of nylons rolling on a bbq spit motor. It was about 5 ft diameter x 4 foot long and dipped into a kiddie pool. (I know it all sounds a bit far fetched) I wish I had pics but, hey I was super paranoid. Just so you know, those bbqspit motors, can reverse on you if the power flips, and the axle is not very strong, so don't try to direct drive it. You will need to come up with somewhat of a chain or belt drive, and make sure the weight of the wheel is not supported (in any way) by the motor, or else it will eventually bind up on you and fail. The only thing I could not quite get around was that it was really difficult to get it to track right. Plus if you use only one motor it will try to torque the wheel on one side, and will misalign the entire thing. good luck though. I also was trying to use parts that were easily accessible and would not be noticed by my neighbors. (nosy bitches).
 
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