{"id":154,"date":"2011-10-08T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2011-10-08T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T17:47:07","slug":"fars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloppermillweather.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/fars\/","title":{"rendered":"FARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent quite a bit of time on my fan aspirated radiation shield today.\u00a0 It consists of threaded aluminum rods, plastic flower pots (UV resistant), plastic spacers made from tubing, some metal brackets I fabricated, and some assorted hardware and PVC fittings.\u00a0 Not the prettiest thing to look at, but very functional.<\/p>\n

One thing that I’m not very happy with is the paint job.\u00a0 I used a spray can of white paint formulated for painting plastic.\u00a0 It didn’t spray evenly.\u00a0 It tended to spit a lot, and paint dripped out of the nozzle onto my hand and down my arm.\u00a0 I’ve used spray paint successfully on many occasions, so even if my technique was bad, it isn’t that bad.\u00a0 My assumption is that this plastic paint behaves differently than regular spray paint, and I wasn’t fully prepared to deal with it.<\/p>\n

This picture shows the flower pots after I cut the necessary holes in them.\u00a0 It also shows the base mount, fan and mounting brackets, and a piece of PVC tubing that fits inside the FARS.<\/p>\n

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FARS Exploded View<\/p><\/div>\n

I made a small metal bracket to mount the temperature\/humidity board.\u00a0 There is a PVC tube that fits inside the shield, and the bracket positions the board so that it sits at the top of the PVC tubing.<\/p>\n

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Humidity\/Temperature Board Bracket<\/p><\/div>\n

I made a mount for the base out of some PVC plumbing fittings.<\/p>\n

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Base Mount<\/p><\/div>\n

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Assembled Base Mount<\/p><\/div>\n

These are the threaded rods and plastic spacers.\u00a0 I cut the spacers out of some plastic tubing.\u00a0 The rods are used, so they don’t look very pretty.<\/p>\n

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Threaded Rods and Spacers<\/p><\/div>\n

And here’s what it looks like assembled.<\/p>\n

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Assembled FARS<\/p><\/div>\n

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Assembled FARS - Another view<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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