{"id":2268,"date":"2012-08-18T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2012-08-18T21:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:18:30","slug":"tube-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/tube-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tube Holder is a piece of hardwood that sits directly beneath the tubes (holding their weight) and has holes for both the air injection tubing and the RGB LED lights for each tube. I made it out of hardwood because I had to drill 120 holes in it, and because it would be screwed to the tube support upright which is MDF. <\/p>\n<p>The tolerances for the holes are relatively small, so I was careful in measuring, marking, and drilling.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marking_holes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marking_holes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"using a straight edge to mark hole positions\" title=\"marking_holes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marking_holes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marking_holes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marking_holes.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every inch a 1\/2&#8243; spade bit was used to drill a hole for the air tube, and then between them a 5\/16&#8243; bit was used for the RGB LED light.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_air_holes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_air_holes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"drilling 1\/2&quot; air holes with a spade bit\" title=\"drilling_air_holes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_air_holes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_air_holes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_air_holes.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_light_holes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_light_holes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"drilling 5\/16&quot; holes for the lights\" title=\"drilling_light_holes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_light_holes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_light_holes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/drilling_light_holes.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final product looks very regular:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/all_holes_done_floor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/all_holes_done_floor-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"board with 120 holes in it\" title=\"all_holes_done_floor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/all_holes_done_floor-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/all_holes_done_floor-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/all_holes_done_floor.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tube Holder is a piece of hardwood that sits directly beneath the tubes (holding their weight) and has holes for both the air injection tubing and the RGB LED lights for each tube. I made it out of hardwood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/tube-holder\/\">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],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-bubbledisplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","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=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}