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<\/p>\nHere’s a project from a couple of weeks ago, that I forgot to post:<\/p>\n
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“Big deal,” you say, “It’s an ugly box.”<\/p>\n
Ah, but what’s under<\/strong> the box?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is the exhaust fan in our kitchen, which goes directly out through the back wall of the house. There’s a little pull chain that turns the fan on and off, and also opens and closes a panel on the back of the house. It’s pretty effective at clearing the kitchen of smoke on those occasions when I burn something, but really ugly, and drafty, too.<\/p>\n So, a few weeks back, I went to Lowe’s and bought a bunch of pieces of wood, some weather stripping, and a couple of hinges, and made this box. It cuts the draft way down, and while it’s nothing all that special to look at, it’s less ugly than the fan.<\/p>\n It’s not like this is going to get me work as a contractor if the whole “tenured college professor” gig gets stale, but it’s nice to feel like I can do useful things around the house, from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a project from a couple of weeks ago, that I forgot to post: “Big deal,” you say, “It’s an ugly box.” Ah, but what’s under the box?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"i-45b50212c654befd191185e1cca177d6-sm_fan.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-45b50212c654befd191185e1cca177d6-sm_fan.jpg\")
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