Make your own shoe dryer. DIY infrared clothes dryer. Materials for work

After walking in the rain or in wet snow, boots and boots need to be dried. Usually shoes are placed on top or leaned against a hot heating radiator. The consequences are quite predictable: after several procedures the sole peels off or the skin warps. The shoes are completely ruined, and so is the mood. Fortunately, it's not all bad.

How to deal with the problem?

Wet shoes can cause fungus to develop. If you wear wet shoes, you will inevitably get a cold or runny nose.

The most in a simple way To avoid such troubles is to install a dryer on the battery. This is a removable plastic or wooden grid on which damp boots or sneakers are placed on top. A hot radiator, without being in direct contact with the sole material, cannot cause harm. Natural circulation of heated air promotes high-quality drying in a few hours.

Ionic, electric, ultrasonic, antifungal and others

To understand the devices presented on the market, we list some of their features.

1. A floor-mounted electric shoe dryer can accommodate several pairs of boots or shoes at the same time. This is not the smallest structure that takes up a certain place in the hallway.
2. Among the mini-options designed for one pair, there are those equipped with a fan, ultrasonic, and ultraviolet.
3. A flexible, universal electric shoe dryer has an insulated heating element inside that is inserted inside the shoe.
4. Induction mats that take up little space and are completely safe.

The choice of a specific design depends on the number of family members, the size of the hallway and the preferences of the owners. In some cases, you can make quite decent and convenient device for this purpose.

Unusual universal homemade shoe dryer

Why ruin your favorite boots on a hot battery when you can make a completely decent device from computer fan. To work you will need the following elements:

• unnecessary working cooler;
• meter corrugated tube;
• 12-volt power supply from the computer;
• extension and connecting electrical wires;
• electrical box;
• several screws;
• electric plug.

Before assembly, you need to cut a round hole in the box to the size of the cooler. We divide the corrugation into two parts and also make slots for them in the electrical box. The cooler must be inserted and secured with screws so that air is forced into the attached hoses. All gaps must be sealed with rubber gaskets to direct air flow in the desired direction. It turned out to be a shoe dryer. With your own hands, both ends of the corrugation are inserted into the boots, and power is supplied to the device. This original design It can even work from a car cigarette lighter, which is very important for country trips, in the country, fishing or hunting.

Non-standard use of familiar objects

IN warm time years, sneakers and sneakers can simply be hung by their laces on a clothesline. Sometimes they are secured with clothespins. The breeze helps the moisture to evaporate. In an apartment you have to use home appliances. In urgent cases, even blowing with a hairdryer helps.

The dryer can be made from a conventional “wind blower” - a home heater with a fan. The wet couple is placed on a low stool. Shoes blown with hot air are driven into normal condition in 2-3 hours. It is strictly not recommended to leave the heater on for for a long time(at night) unattended - to avoid a sudden short circuit.

Lumps of crumpled newspaper sheets placed inside boots quickly absorb moisture. The inconvenience is the need to regularly (every hour and a half) replace dampened paper. If you combine these two methods: pieces of newspaper and blowing with a wind blower, the result will be achieved much faster.

Apartment stove-heater - shoe dryer

With your own hands you can create something completely original and useful device for the designated purpose. You will need to stock up on medium-sized river pebbles in advance. Then it gets ready wooden frame- a frame with low walls that looks like the bottom will be an oil heater laid on its side. From below it is installed on a frame with legs, and prepared stones are laid out on top of it.

This device can always be kept on, as it has a temperature regulator. Wet shoes are placed on heated pebbles and kept until completely dry.

The size of the structure depends on the dimensions of the radiator. The shoe dryer is made by yourself and you can use it. It can accommodate several pairs that are not in danger of overheating or drying out.

Today, stores offer a huge selection of clothes dryers that have different sizes and design. It would seem that even a picky buyer will definitely find suitable device. But homemade dryer there are undeniable advantages.

First of all, it saves money. When we are talking not about a simple electric dryer made of heating rods, but about a good drying cabinet that costs a decent amount of money, the opportunity to make such a device yourself looks very attractive. But in fact, there is nothing complicated about this. Let's figure out how it works and what materials are needed to create a dryer for clothes and shoes with your own hands.

Operating principle of the drying cabinet

Let's start with the fact that such a device can be used both for quickly drying freshly washed clothes and for drying street clothes and shoes, which is especially important in the off-season.

Drying in a cabinet can be done by pumping warm air with a fan heater or using economical and silent infrared heaters. With the advent of the latter, the question of choosing a heat source was resolved by itself.

Infrared heaters are absolutely safe, very efficient and operate with minimal energy consumption. Their location at the top and bottom of the cabinet (and, if desired, on the side machines) in combination with ventilation holes for removal humid air and fresh arrivals - that, in fact, is the whole secret of the design. But let's talk about everything in order.

Work progress on creating a drying cabinet

The first stage of work will involve the construction of a closet with stands for shoes and hangers for clothes. We will consider the option of building a structure for the hallway, but if you wish, you can install several rods in the closet or stretch a clothesline, which will allow you to use it for drying freshly washed clothes.

• When the walls are ready, we assemble the cabinet frame. In the lower part we install metal shelves for shoes, and in the upper part for hats (they can be purchased ready-made). It is desirable that these are lattice structures that are not an obstacle to the penetration of warm air. In the top shelf you will need to drill a hole for the hood with a diameter of about 100 mm.
• The back wall of the cabinet can be made of thick plywood. After installing it, you should secure the clothes rail and install ventilation pipe with exit to the exhaust grille.
• When clearance internal filling finished, just need to drill at the bottom through holes for air intake from the hallway and install facades.

The next step will be self-production infrared heater made of heating film used for installation of heated floors. To do this you will need the following materials:

• a piece of heating film of the required size;
• power cord with plug and switch (for ease of use);
• eyelets and terminals ring for connecting the wire to the heating film, 2 pcs.;
• wide electrical tape and super tape for finishing dryers.

On the copper current-carrying strip of the film you need to punch a hole for the grommet. A regular stationery hole punch is suitable for this. Then you should connect the wire to the ring terminal and crimp it special tool or ordinary pliers. Having made a cut along the copper strip, you need to insert a ring terminal and secure the grommet with a press or pliers. You can install eyelets in any metal repair shop.

Similar actions should be performed on the copper strip on the other side. After that, all that remains is to insulate the connection points of the wire to the heating film and the ends of the copper strip on the opposite side. For aesthetic beauty, the insulation areas can be sealed with super tape.

After making two infrared heaters Let's start the last stage of creation drying cabinet- we fix the heating elements in its bottom and upper parts. By the way, if you wish, you can purchase ready-made infrared cassettes for these purposes.

Assembling a device for drying shoes - electric dryer from a self-regulating thermal cable. Electric drying for shoes can make the autumn-winter slushy period much more comfortable. In addition, dry shoes are a matter of maintaining health, so this is far from a useless device.

Materials and tools

Materials:

Cuttings of thermal cable (can be from a "warm floor" system);

Copper two-core cable with a cross section of 1.5 sq. mm;

Electrical plug;

Dimmer (you can do without it if you don’t need to regulate the heating of the dryers);

Insulating tape;

Terminal block.

Tools:

Pliers;

Screwdriver;

Knife and side cutters.

Making a dryer

So, from scraps of thermal cable 35-50 cm long we make two insert loops.

On two sections of cable we do end seal on one side (see photo) and connect terminal block on the other side. You can make not a terminal connection of wires, but soldering.

We connect two “loops” with a cable and a plug in parallel. Additionally, we insulate it with several layers of electrical tape or cover it with a thermal tube.

We do everything carefully and reliably, because we will connect the dryer to a 220 volt network - there should be no mistakes!

Demonstration of heating a homemade shoe dryer with an infrared non-contact thermometer.

In any season, the issue of drying shoes remains relevant. Whether we are caught in summer rain or winter snow, if we stay outside for a long time, our shoes will definitely get wet. In order to continue using this pair, it must be dried. Many people solve this problem by simply leaving their shoes to dry in the hallway or leaving them near the radiator. To dry shoes, a special electrical device was invented in the form of tubes shaped like shoes, which are inserted inside, plugged into an outlet and thus warm up the shoes. But such devices are dangerous because you can forget to turn them off and the shoes will dry out, and this can lead to cracking of the leather and changing the shape of the boots or shoes. Genuine leather especially doesn’t like such experiments, and leatherette won’t stand it either, so you can safely throw away such shoes.

Air Shoe Dryer

In order to dry shoes without overheating, you can use air blowing: air that is warmer and less humid than the surrounding air is supplied inside the shoes, and thus the shoes are dried well without warping or other troubles. As heating elements resistors R1-R12 are used, shown in the diagram. Behind them there is a fan that blows them, and thus the heated air flows through tubes or hoses inside the shoes.

Motor voltage direct current M1, located in the fan, is fed through the rectifier bridge VD1-VD4. This makes it possible to use power from both a constant source and alternating current, since, for example, in the latter case, the ripple of the rectified voltage is smoothed out by capacitor C1.

Often, even the best quality shoes cannot withstand the slush of the winter thaw and get wet. In order to dry it properly and without harm, I collected convenient design based on two PC fans.

On a note

The most natural drying process is the evaporation of moisture during room temperature, and that's a long time. But if you create forced air movement (blowing, ventilation), drying will speed up several times.

From a piece of plywood 4 mm thick, according to the drawing (see figure), I cut out a rectangular base. Using a jigsaw, I cut out two holes in it to fit the diameter of the fans.

Above each opening, I fixed coolers measuring 80x80x25 mm with a voltage of 12 V with bolts.

I connected the latter in parallel and connected a 12 V power supply to them. To dry, I put the structure on top of the shoes and plug the unit into the network. Fans provide a diffuse air flow, so the outside of the shoes is also blown.

A conventional heated dryer inside a damp shoe creates a warm and humid atmosphere, and since there is virtually no air ventilation, the shoes begin to rot and rot.

DIY shoe dryer or what you can make from computer fans

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