DIY Drying Cabinet

Started buying parts for this 2 months ago.

Hindsight...It could be bigger...

So what we have here is a wooden box to dry in.

Clear Plastic doors
12 Volt fans
and a dozen cookie racks



1/2 by 5/8 pine runners will hold the cookie sheets
glued and wire-nailed to 1/2 plywood walls
Do both sides at the same time and you only measure once


3/4" bottom
1/2" walls and top
1/4" Medium Duty Fibre-board on the back


Those cookie rack legs will be removed


Glueing and clamping for days


Now we glue some 'outside corner" upside down on the edge
This will hold our foam gasket.....and frame the doors.


Magnets mounted slightly below the foam gasket hold the doors on


3" drain plug for a passive vent....this will hold filter material later, to give it some drag


and fan filters over the 120mm fans

Seals are in place
Dehumidyfier is sitting on it's shelf

Electrical to be screwed and/or velcro'd to the top

Top fan [blows to the left] and another shot of the magnetic catch and window trim

I cut a 6" x 6" window, put a step in it with a router and I'll mount a plexiglass pane in it
I need to be able to view the res on the dehumidifyer

Positioned in her new home..
The power supply is velcroed...the power boxes are screwed down
The left door is on in this shot

empty cookie racks
and right door in place [see the door knob?]

Now all we need is something to put in it....

Test Run

Thanks Clay

I still have to get some bugs out
I want a little more air movement in the right side
I popped a $7 walmart fan in the bottom..that seems to be doing the trick

air flows upward thru the weed
comes in warm and dry from the dehumidifyer
84f and 33%rh

by the time it reaches the top.....77f and 51%rh

here's our test run
That's a chest full of Power Kush

x2

Did I miss how much you had wrapped up in this DIY?

are you going to stick with this one, or build the bigger one, say to dry 1-3 lbs

Callibar II readings
Top of cabinet 77.1f 49%rh
Bottom 81.5f 37%rh

This one has more than a lb in it.

Cost?
3 walls 4 x 4 of 1/2" plywood $30
back 2x3 of 1/4" mdf $10
bottom 1x2 of 3/4" ply $10
Plex for doors 2x3 of 1/4" $30
3 fans @ $10 each= $30
new power supply $20
new tstat $25
2 2x4 outlet boxes, double switch, cover plates, double outlet $15
18' of 5/8 outside corner $4
17' of 1/2 x 1/4 foam gasket $6
4 knobs...$4
8 magnetic catches $12
Dehydrator $80
2 Caliber II $40
12 10 x17 cookie racks $36
3" shower drain [vent] $2
1 extension cord $3
felt pads for feet $1
2 120mm fan filters $5

So that's $363 building from all new material

I didn't include
1/4 bottle of Elmers wood glue
100 wire nails
12 screws holding the fans
the velcro