It looks to be an expensive and over-complicated solution to me. The main problems will be:
1. working in gloves will be awkward, especially if they are sticky from condensed flux.
2. condensate on the window will need cleaning. Forget ideas of using a plastic window, it will scratch and risks chemical attack.
3. the box may 'fog' unless you can circulate the air inside, it may be difficult to see where you are working.
4. it could be quite big, consider the size in the picture compared to the person using it.
If fumes are a problem, the simplest solution other than a simple fan and filter is to run a flexible tube along the soldering iron cable to a metal intake tube near the tip. At the other end of the pipe, it a small air pump to **** vapors down the tube to a safe outlet. You can get the flexible tube and air pump from shops selling fish tanks (aquariums). tube may need occasional cleaning or replacement but it is inexpensive. The pump should be servicable but they last many years in normal use anyway.
Brian.
Just setup a vacuum cleaner nozzle near your bench sucking all those nasty fumes away
Hi,
if you want to clean the air inside the box, then use active carbon filters.
Klaus
Maybe you are using Chinese solder that has rosin made from stinky animal dung?
Maybe your soldering iron is not temperature controlled and gets too hot which causes the rosin to make nasty smoke instead of a pleasant aroma?
I have soldered with my temperature controlled soldering iron for many years and have not used or needed the contraption box you are planning, because there was no smoke. I never used gloves, sometimes but not always I simply washed the lead off my hands when I finished soldering.
Do you also use extreme protection against cooking fumes? Bathroom fumes?
I know OP is not in the USA, but here we have Harbor Freight
and there you can find small sandblasting "booths" which are
basically just what you describe. Fitted for dust extraction,
in some cases even lighted. And all of this stuff is imported
so ought to be as available anywhere else (retail distribution
channel realities aside).
If the soldering iron touches the gloves, it is gone. Yes, surgical gloves are the ideal for this but they cost correspondingly more.
If it will be able to burn any of them instantly or not?
I will do this test on latex and on nitrile gloves when they arrive...
The thinner they are, they more sensitive they are.
I imagine condensate or flux on the gloves would be a problem, it would make them sticky. My mind's eye can see your frustration when that expensive SMD component you just bought is stuck to the glove inside the box and you can get your hands out without damaging it!
Brian.
What you really need is something like this: Smoke Extractor. It's nothing more than a muffin fan with a filter in front of it. It should be fairly easy to build one on your own using parts laying around.
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