{"id":2036,"date":"2012-05-22T21:17:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2012-05-22T21:17:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:17:28","slug":"acrylic-column-1-bubble-display-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/acrylic-column-1-bubble-display-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrylic Column #1 (Bubble Display testing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished test column #1 today. I was able to cut the extruded acrylic tube using a miter saw with no major difficulties, and pulled it across a piece of sandpaper on a glass backing to try to ensure that the end was perfectly flat. I had to use a good amount of solvent to weld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/acrylic-welding-solvent-bubble-display-nozzle-test-1\/\">the 1&#8243; square bottom plate<\/a> to the bottom of the square extruded acrylic tube. Even after my initial weld, it had some pinhole leaks that would &#8220;weep&#8221; water. I fixed them by turning the tube sideways and wiping a liberal amount of solvent along each of the four seams, allowing it to seep into the gaps (and\/or melt acrylic into the gaps.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/column_one_finished.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/column_one_finished-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A 1&quot; square tube of acrylic with a bottom plate cemented to it.\" title=\"column one finished\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/column_one_finished-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/column_one_finished-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell <!--more-->from watching it, the column has no leaks. I marked the water level using a rubber band, sealed the top to prevent evaporation, and will check it over time to see how the bottom of the column is holding up. Of course, I&#8217;ll have to repeat my test with a full six foot column (due to the extra pressure) but so far it appears the acrylic bottom plate welded onto the tube is going to work well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/column_one_leak_test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/column_one_leak_test-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"marked the water level with a rubber band, tape over the top to prevent evaporation.\" title=\"column_one_leak_test\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2038\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished test column #1 today. I was able to cut the extruded acrylic tube using a miter saw with no major difficulties, and pulled it across a piece of sandpaper on a glass backing to try to ensure that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/acrylic-column-1-bubble-display-testing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-technology","tag-bubbledisplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}