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.txt And .html Being Added To A Digital Download
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Posted 08 August 2014 - 06:49 AM
I'm having an issue with a video download (1.47GB). When 'downloaded' it gets a .html extension added to the file and only downloads 55kb.
I had it hosted on my own server however it's now on dropbox, but I'm getting the same result.
I can drag the file downloaded (wrong extension) to a web browser where it will go to the drop box window and you can download it from there, but I would rather the customer get the file direct straight from the site rather than a remote url.
I had the same result with a 40kb pdf, it gained a .html extension which I can change to pdf, but unsure why it's getting this addition.
Any ideas, clues, solutions I'm missing?
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Physical items are working a breeze and the whole simple system you have is great! Just going nuts over this little glitch.
Posted 08 August 2014 - 03:18 PM
Glad to hear that you like Exchange overall!
I can't replicate this particular issue on my test site and I've only seen this issue from one other Exchange user and it was something on their site that was automatically appending .html to their files, not just Exchange files.
I tested your site in Chrome and in Safari and it was appending a .txt extension to the file in Safari, but was downloading just fine in Chrome. What browser are you using when this is happening?
Can you test to see if there is a plugin that is causing this? To do so, you'd deactivate all of your plugins except for Exchange and then see if it works correctly. If it does, reactivate your other plugins one at a time, testing Exchange each time to see which plugin is creating the conflict. You can also try testing for a theme conflict by temporarily activating one of the WordPress default themes like Twenty Fourteen and then see if it works correctly.
Please give that a try and let us know how it goes.
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Microwave solution - deeper upper cabinet?
I need to figure this last thing out before the end of the week.
I want to put my microwave in an upper cabinet like pictured here in this mock-up.
I'll be buying a new microwave. I dont know which one though. We use the MW alot, but only for little things like reheating small tupperwares of food, or frozen Lean Cuisines or Popcorn. I can make this cabinet deeper for the microwave. Either 15 or 18" deep. The cabinet guy said its an ideal space since its up against a wall and another cabinet - is that true? Will it look funny for this cabinet to be 18" deep when the others are just 12"?
Another thing is that I can either get a 42" tall 30" wide upper with a shelf below and doors above the microwave OR I can get a 39" tall 30" wide open cabinet with just shelves. No doors above the MW.
Which would you prefer? I could put nicer serving dishes that we dont really use above the microwave if I didnt have doors to hide things there.
If I get the cabinet without the doors then the bottom of the cabinet would line up with all of my other cabinets since I could get it 39" tall. If I get the cabinet that has a shelf for the MW and then doors above, I need to get a 42" cabinet so the cabinet would hand down 3" below the adjacent cabinet.
Also I am thinking I should get this 18" deep to accommodate a decent microwave? I could also go 15" deep but then I would have a limited choice of microwave.
Please help me decide!
I used a GE Spacemaker. It fits underneath a 12" deep cabinet. If you put a rail beneath it, it looks totally built-in. I use the microwave for the same thing you do, and find it more than adequate. If you put a microwave next to the wall, make sure there is enough clearance to open the door.
I hope it won't look funny because that's what we did and I think it looks pretty good. And the function is the best part of all.
Here's ours, you can just envision it without the coffee maker below, the point is the protrusion and how the molding moves with it at top.
Good luck.
If going custom, dont make the cabs 12 in deep. 14 or 15 and then you can use them for dishes. Many of today's dinner plates are 10-11 in. diameter and you cant close the door on a 12 deep cab. Serving pieces and many other kitchen things require bigger cabs. 12 inches were for old small dishes. Today is oversize.
We have a 21" deep shelf next to my fridge for the microwave and it looks perfect. The microwave is 2 cuft and barely fits. Since installing it, I've noticed its a little easier to use because it is out further and you don't have to reach across the counter to get in it. I'll try to take pictures of it tonight.
> Many of today's dinner plates are 10-11 in. diameter and you cant close
> the door on a 12 deep cab.
True for inset doors; not true for overlay. The back and hanging rails take about 1" out of the 12", leaving 11" for the plates (it doesn't matter if they overhang the edge of the sheves, so long as they clear the door). And if you have shaker style doors with a 1/4" center panel, you get a tad over 1/4" extra clearance behind the door. Of course, if you store your plates in a drawer next to the DW, you won't have this problem in the first place.
I can see a case for 13" deep uppers, but I think 15" would start to look overbearing unless you have 30" deep base cabinets. And if you fill up a 15" deep upper, you'll spend your life taking things out from the front to get to the stuff at the back (that's bad enough with a 12" deep upper). OTOH, I suppose that 15" uppers with small lazy susans could be quite effective.
Another important consideration when considering deeper uppers is that quite a few ranges do not allow them within 6" - 12" of the sides of the range. Generally, you are limited to 13" deep including the door within that distance.
I think it looks fine to have the cab deeper than its neighbors, like taggie's. I also like how hers is filled in all the way to the counter with another appliance. If you took that cab all the way to the counter, you could put the microwave lower and have the doors above, but instead of just hanging down 3 inches, it would hold something. You could also put the microwave at the bottom and have a shelf above and doors above that. It looks like you have a lot of counter space without that part.
But, of course, the GE Space Saver sounds like a good plan, too. Just don't get a Whirlpool. and I should warn you that the plastic stuff over the press pads of my Frigidaire counter MW started to lift up in just a few months.
They don't offer a cabinet with just a deeper open shelf sticking out? I've seen those in some lines. Or I bet if you make those two cabinets on that side deep nobody would notice, plus you get more storage! If you get the taller one, I think it would look intentional so it is easier to reach.
Ditto on the GE spacemaker. We don't do complicated things in the microwave. I didn't get the trim kit to make it look built-in, but it's on a regular 12" deep shelf. The cabs to the right are deeper because they house the ovens. The ones to the left are just regular 12".
We did not have custom cabinets, but ordered Kraftmaid from Lowe's. We didn't want our often used microwave and toaster oven in view when not in use, so we had one of the uppers increased in depth to 18", and had an "appliance gargage" type cabinet made to slide in between upper and countertop increased to 18", also. We have lived in our kitchen for about 8 months now and I love this set-up! I worried about the cabinet doors being open when using these appliances, but our house is a quiet one, with just DH and me, so it has not been a problem at all. Also, for us, having the doors open like this reminds us to shut them when we are done using the appliances, so they aren't perpetually open like they were when we had the old style tambour door.
It looks like you have a great spot to do this where you have planned. Or, maybe you just want the upper done, but I don't have a picture of how that would look.
I like that idea with your toaster oven! We use a toaster oven daily for breakfast with 2 kids so maybe I should think about that!
Are you cabinets the Deveron style? We are looking at Deveron which has the veneer recessed panel and Durham which has the solid wood recessed panel at Lowes.
do you know what your crown molding is? Did you buy that from Kraftmaid too? I like yours a lot. We are getting a small 2" crown molding but it looks different and I like yours better.
scrappy25, our microwave cabinet is 20" deep but that's dictated by the coffee maker. The microwave is just a kenmore cheapie that's only 14.5" deep.
I think an 18" depth would be perfect. Leaves plenty of room for the cord behind and it's nice to have a bit of wiggle room for maneuvering the microwave a bit when cleaning dust on the shelf below it. And I think the depth change at 18" in abfabamy's photo looks great.
I think the solution that has the cab hang down 3" below the other cabs would work well (depending on what you wanted to store under it). It is in a corner, so that would not break up your prep space.
I am not short, but I find it hard to reach up to the height of the bottom shelf of an upper cab with, say, a hot bowl of soup. Lowering the MW a little would help.
Have you considered a drawer MW in a lower cab? It appears you have the room for it.
I just wanted to chime in and add my additional 2 cents. My DH is 6' 5" so a drawer was out for him, but I am 5' 0" so I worried about having the microwave up as high as the bottom shelf of the upper cabinet, but I've found it is not a problem for me at all. Previously, for the past 25 years, we have had an above the stove micro, so I've always had to reach that high so maybe I'm just used to it, but I would do it again this way in a second!
What I have found is that the toaster oven would not have worked up high like that and needed to be at counter level, which is why it occupies the bottom spot in our arrangement.


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A method and apparatus for coating high temperature resistant, electrically-conductive, ceramic compounds, such as titanium carbides and diborides, onto an organic substrate, which may be an organic resin matrix composite. The apparatus basically comprises a vacuum arc plasma generator, a high-voltage insulated substrate holding table and a plasma channel. The plasma generator includes a vacuum chamber having a cylindrical cathode of the material to be deposited, surrounded by a ceramic insulator which is in turn surrounded by a metal trigger ring in contact with a trigger electrode. When a vacuum arc discharge is initiated, a plasma flows outwardly from the cathode through a hole in an adjacent anode and into a drift tube. The drift tube has a plurality of magnets around the tube exterior to push the plasma away from the tube, maintain a uniform plasma density and guide the plasma towards a substrate on a movable high voltage insulated substrate support. The cathode material is nearly 100% ionized, giving the ions impinging on the organic substrate sufficient kinetic energy to react with and adhere tightly to the target substrate without additional heating. The amount of kinetic energy is controllable to provide the selected degree of substrate surface ion mixing with the coating elements.
1. Apparatus for forming a coating on a substrate by direct ion mixed arc plasma deposition, which comprises:
a vacuum chamber;
a cathode assembly within said chamber, said cathode assembly comprising:
a cathode adapted to comprise the material of said coating;
an electrically insulating ceramic ring around said cathode;
a trigger ring around said insulating ring; and a trigger electrode in contact with said trigger ring;
an anode spaced from said cathode, said anode having at least one perforation, said anode adapted to receive and pass ions including ions of said coating material from said cathode through said perforation;
a substrate support means spaced from said anode and adapted to support a substrate to be coated with said substrate positioned to receive said ions passing through said anode; and
a plurality of permanent magnets arranged around the volume between said anode and said target, said magnets arranged with like poles on adjacent magnets in a face-to-face pattern;
whereby a uniform, adherent, substantially stoichiometric, coating of the cathode material is formed on said target.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 further including a drift tube positioned to receive ions passing through said anode, and guide said ions toward said substrate, said guide tube surrounding at least part of the path between said anode and said substrate and comprising a tube of non-magnetic material.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said drift tube is formed from copper.
4. The apparatus according to claim further including an electrically conductive screen adjacent to the surface of said substrate facing toward said anode.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said magnets are samarium-cobalt magnets.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1 where said anode is substantially planar, lies substantially perpendicular to the line between the centers of said cathode and said substrate and one anode perforation surrounds said line.
7. The method of forming an electrically-conductive, ceramic compound coating on a substrate by direct ion mixed arc plasma deposition, which comprises the steps of:
providing a vacuum chamber containing, in seriatim, a cathode, a perforated anode, and a substrate;
said cathode comprising a high temperature resistant, electrically-conductive, ceramic compound;
initiating an arc at said cathode to form a mixed plasma moving toward and through said anode;
guiding said plasma passing through said anode toward said substrate by surrounding the line between said cathode and said anode with a non-magnetic drift tube and positioning a plurality of permanent magnets along the exterior of said drift tube with the like poles of adjacent magnets in a face-to-face relationship to form magnetic cusps between adjacent magnets;
maintaining a substantially uniform ion mixture and plasma density as said plasma moves toward said substrate;
impinging said plasma onto said target whereby a substantially stoichiometric adherent coating of said compound is formed on said target.
8. The method according to claim 7 including maintaining said substrate at a bias of from about 50 to 200 volts negative during deposition.
9. The method according to claim 7 including varying the bias on said target from about 50 to 200 volts negative to about 10 to 30 kilovolts.
10. The method according to claim 9 wherein said bias is varied at a frequency of from about 10 to 30 cycles per second.
11. The method according to claim 10 further including the step of cleaning the target surface by sputtering away a small amount of the substrate surface before applying the coating.
12. The method according to claim 11 wherein said cleaning is accomplished and ions are implanted in the target surface by initiating cathode ionization with the substrate at a bias of from about 10 to 30 kilovolts for a period sufficient to apply from about 3�1016 to 2�1017 atoms/cm2.
13. The method according to claim 7 wherein said ceramic compound is selected from the group consisting of borides, carbides, silicides and nitrides of titanium tungsten, aluminum, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, and mixtures thereof.
14. The method according to claim 7 wherein said substrate comprises an organic resin matrix composite material.
This invention relates in general to the formation of electrically-conductive ceramic compound coatings on substrates and, more particularly, to the direct ion mixed plasma deposition of such compounds onto organic substrates such as organic matrix composites.
A number of different methods have been developed for depositing materials, generally metals, in the form of particles or ions onto a substrate surface to form an adherent, uniform coating. Among these are thermal deposition, cathode sputtering and chemical vapor deposition. While useful in particular applications, these methods suffer from several problems, including a tendency to coat other system surfaces than the substrate with the material being deposited, requiring frequent cleaning, contamination problems when the coating material is changed and a waste of often expensive coating material. Generally, these processes require that the substrate surface be heated to a very high temperature which often damages the substrate material, especially when the substrate is an organic material or an organic matrix composite material. The high deposition temperatures also lead to thermal stresses that may cause coating delamination.
Vacuum arc deposition has a number of advantages for coating difficult materials, such as refractory metals, onto substrate. Vacuum arc deposition involves establishing of an arc, in a vacuum, between a cathode formed from the coating material and an anode, which results in the production of a plasma of the cathode material suitable for coating. The process does not involve gases, making control of deposition rate easier and simplifies changing coating materials. Typical vacuum arc deposition systems are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,566,185, 3,836,451 and 4,714,860. Vacuum arc deposition, sometimes referred to as cathodic arc deposition, is used commercially, typically to produce titanium nitride coatings on tooling.
A number of problems remain, however, which limit the use of vacuum arc deposition. Coatings often suffer from adherence and low density problems, particularly when an organic matrix composite material is used as the substrate. Difficulties are often encountered in obtaining a desired coating composition where ceramic materials, such as electrically-conductive ceramic compounds (e.g., borides, nitrides or carbides) are being applied.
Thus, there is a continuing need for improved methods and apparatus for forming uniform, adherent coatings from metal compounds, in particular on organic matrix composite substrates.
It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide an improved method and apparatus capable of forming adherent coatings of high temperature resistant, electrically-conductive, ceramic compounds on organic substrates. Another object is to provide a method and apparatus capable of producing smooth, hard, electrically-conductive ceramic coatings having uniform high density on organic substrates. A further object is to form, by ion mixed plasma techniques, coatings of electrically-conductive ceramic compounds having precise stoichiometry. Yet another object is to form coatings of electricall-y-conductive ceramic compounds on organic substrates having a diffuse interface between coating and substrate.
The above-noted objects, and others, are accomplished in accordance with this invention by a method and apparatus using a direct ion mixed plasma deposition system. The apparatus basically comprises a vacuum chamber enclosing a vacuum arc plasma generator, an anode, and a high voltage insulated table for holding a substrate to be coated.
The plasma generator includes a cylindrical cathode formed from the compound to be deposited, surrounded by a ceramic electrical insulator which is in turn surrounded by a metal trigger ring in contact with a trigger electrode. The anode is typically a copper plate having a central hole for passage of the plasma.
A plasma channel or drift tube may be included to surround the plasma between anode and target. This channel, if used, typically is a tube of copper or other non-magnetic material with the opening extending from the anode hole to a location adjacent to the target table. The channel serves to guide the plasma to the target and to increase plasma uniformity. A plurality of magnets, preferably samarium-cobalt magnets, are located in a circle around the volume between anode and substrate. If a plasma channel is used, the magnets are attached to the outside of the tube in a manner such as to form a ring of magnetic cusps around the interior of the plasma channel. These cusps push plasma away from the tube interior wall, guide the plasma to the substrate and keep the plasma density uniform.
The basic process of this invention includes evacuating the chamber, initiating ionization at the cathode to form a plasma between the anode and cathode, directing the plasma through the hole in the anode and along the drift tube or channel and coating the ions from the plasma onto the organic substrate material. Preferred steps, materials, and conditions are discussed in detail below.
Details of the invention, and of certain preferred embodiments thereof, will be further understood upon reference to the drawing, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the plasma deposition apparatus of this invention; and
FIG. 2 is a transverse section view through the plasma drift tube or channel, taken on line 2--2 in FIG. 1.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is seen a schematic representation of a vacuum chamber 10 containing the apparatus for direct ion mixed plasma deposition. A cathode 12 is positioned in a chamber 14. Any suitable metal compound may be used to form cathode 12. Typical such compounds include those selected from the group consisting of borides, carbides, silicides, and nitrides of titanium, tungsten, aluminum, molybdenum, niobium, and tantalum and mixtures thereof. Best results are obtained with titanium diboride, titanium carbide, titanium nitride, tungsten carbide, and mixtures thereof. In many cases high temperature resistant, electrically-conductive ceramics are preferred for maximum hardness and abrasion resistance. Optimum results are obtained with titanium diboride for high temperature applications due to its hardness, stability, and resistance to oxidation up to about 1200� F. Cathode 12 may have any suitable diameter, typically from about 3 to 10 mm.
Cathode 12 is surrounded by an insulating ring 16, formed from any conventional suitable material. A trigger ring 18, typically steel, is formed around insulating ring 16. A conventional trigger 20 is placed in contact with trigger ring 18. The walls 22 of chamber 14 are formed from any conventional electrically insulating material. If desired, the multiple cathode assembly as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,089,707 can be used in place of the cathode assembly shown. This would permit the rapid and convenient application of plural layers of different materials.
An anode 24 is positioned on the opposite side of chamber 14 from cathode 12. Anode has at least one perforation 26 generally aligned with cathode 12. Anode 26 is formed from any suitable conductor, such as copper.
A channel or drift tube 28, typically having a diameter of from about 100 to 200 mm, may extend, from anode 26 toward an insulated substrate support structure 30. Channel 28 may be omitted if desired. Tube 28 is formed from a non-magnetic metal, such as copper. A plurality of permanent magnets 32 are arranged around the exterior of tube 28 in a pattern as shown in FIG. 2. Other support means will be provided for magnets 32, such as conventional brackets on the interior of vacuum chamber walls, if drift tube or channel 28 is eliminated. While any suitable magnets may be used, cobalt-samarium magnets are preferred for optimum performance. While any suitable even number of magnets may be used, an even number from about 4 to 12 is preferred. The larger the diameter of tube the greater the number of magnets that will be optimum. Preferably , the magnets are spaced from about 10 to 20 mm apart, edge-to-edge. Magnets 32 are arranged with like poles of adjacent magnets facing each other.
Support table 30 is formed from a high voltage insulating material and is mounted on a mechanism 36 extending through a high-voltage feed-through 34 in the wall of vacuum chamber 10 to permit the distance from the table to drift tube 28 to be varied.
The organic substrate 38 to be coated is secured to support 30 in a conventional manner. Any suitable organic material can be coated in this apparatus, including relatively low melting temperature materials. Typical materials include composites of fibers in an resin matrix, such as graphite fibers in an epoxy resin matrix, carbon-carbon materials, etc.
If substrate 38 is insulating, in order to apply a negative bias to the substrate, a conductive screen 37 or the like is placed over the target surface and the desired bias is applied to the screen.
Vacuum chamber 10 includes the usual operational components, such as a connection 40 to a roughing vacuum pump, a connection 42 to a high vacuum pump and an ion gauge 44 to measure the degree of vacuum achieved.
In the operation of this apparatus, a suitable organic material substrate 38 is placed on the substrate support table 30 and a cathode 12 of a selected metal compound is installed. The chamber 10 is pumped down to a suitable vacuum through connections 40 and 42. When a high voltage is applied between trigger ring 18 and cathode 12, a vacuum arc discharge is initiated from a tiny spot (typically less than one micrometer in diameter) on the cathode surface. The current density in this spot is enormous, well over one million amperes per square inch. So large is the current density that material from the cathode is pulled from the surface and ionized. Ionization is almost total, to the extent that most of the ions are multiply charged. The trigger pulse typically lasts only about a tenth of a millisecond, just long enough to initiate the vacuum arc breakdown.
The plasma from this arc fills the cavity 14 between cathode 12 and anode 24 so that a relatively low (typically about 20 volts) voltage between the cathode and anode is sufficient to sustain the arc. For a typical titanium diboride cathode, the plasma will consist of a combination of titanium ions and boron ions, with twice the number of boron ions as titanium ions. The ionization is nearly 100%. It is so extensive that most of the titanium ions will be doubly charged.
The plasma produced by the arc flows outward from cathode 12 through the hole 26 in anode 24 and into plasma drift tube or channel 28. The channel 28 guides the plasma towards target 38.
The coating is applied by exposing the substrate surface to the plasma while typically maintaining the substrate surface at a bias of from about 50 to 200 volts negative. In this way, the plasma ions are drawn to the surface with enough energy to form the appropriate bonds but with little sputtering of the surface or surface penetration. The coating is thus plasma deposited without ion mixing.
In a second embodiment of the coating step, the substrate bias is alternately varied from about 50 to 200 volts negative to about 10 to 30 kilovolts negative. Preferably, the bias is varied at a frequency of from about 10 to 30 cycles per second. This causes the coating to be sequentially applied and ion mixed by itself. The ion mixing sequence helps densify the coating, further improves adhesion, and applies additional compressive stress to the coating. This compressive stress helps keep the coating from cracking, particularly where differences in the coefficient of thermal expansion produces stresses.
The deposition is continued for the time necessary to produce a coating of the desired thickness, typically from about 3 to 10 micrometers. If desired, multiple layers of different compounds can be produced by changing the composition of cathode 12. This is particularly convenient with this method and apparatus, since little, if any, of the material is deposited on the chamber walls, etc. from which it could be released to contaminate later layers of different composition.
To maximize the adherence of the coating to the substrate surface, that surface should be clean of any impurities. Conventional cleaning techniques often do not remove all of the material from the substrate surface that can interfere with coating adherence. Thus, it may be preferable to sputter away a small amount of the surface to improve cleaning.
In accordance with the method of this invention, the substrate surface is partially ion implanted prior to applying the coating. Ion implantation strengthens the surface and provides the desirable sputter cleaning. Preferably, the materials used to implant the surface are the ones to be used to form the coating. In this manner, no impurities can be introduced into the system. In addition, adhesion is aided by eliminating any sharp interface between the coating and the treated surface. This implantation is preferably performed using the apparatus described above and the cathode that is to be used to form the coating. The plasma is formed as described above and the substrate is biased to a high negative voltage, preferably from about 10 to 30 kilovolts negative. The ions are drawn from the plasma to the substrate, impinging with sufficient energy to penetrate the surface deeply and produce an ion implanted layer. Typically, with a titanium diboride cathode, the surface is implanted with titanium and boron. The titanium ions penetrate into the surface approximately half the distance the boron ions penetrate. In order to prevent excessive heating of the substrate, ion implantation is conducted at a very low dose rate. Total ion implantation dose is preferably from about 3�1016 to 2�1017 atoms/cm2, with optium results at about 1017 atoms/cm2. Without removing the substrate from the chamber, conditions are changed to the coating conditions described above and coating proceeds.
Other applications, variations and ramifications of this invention will occur to those skilled in the art upon reading this disclosure. Those are intended to be included within the scope of this invention, as defined in the appended claims.
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Caterpillar cage
What types of cages or enclosures do you raise your cats in? My big aquarium has been thrown away and I have been using large collapsable laundry baskets covered by a heavy folded towel. I kept it in my garage. I had a frog move in for a week. He stayed by the basket watching. Yesterday I caught a lizard in the basket. I never caught cats escaping but the lizard was able ot get in. He was pretty fat, too. What do you all use? Do you buy them or make them?
I used to be able to find the collaspeable laundry hampers with a zipper lid at Lowes. They were perfect! The best thing I have found to replace it was one of the collapsable pet cages. It is nylon with a net type opening in the lid and on one side for air. It works and is large enough for tall host plants. I don't like it as well, not as easy to see into but for large quantity of cats, it does work well. I didn't get the smallest one so maybe it would work too. I got mine at Target.
I still rely on my aquariums and my two old laundry hampers. I do have a reptile cage that belonged to my son and I just kinda borrowed it permanently as he does my things too!
Maybe you can check Goodwill or the classified ads to see if anyone has a cheap one for sale.
I have 2 reptarium cages, they are black net with plastic pipe frame.
I found them fairly cheep on ebay, they were new but used would be ok.
if you are handy an old bird cage would work for the frame and use nylon netting or tule from the fabric store and make a cover.
or small pvc pipe and netting
DH, the master carpenter, built mine for me. I did the screening; what a pain. It's not perfect, and I'd lose a cat last year (must've snuck out the crack between the front doors). I put a piece of tape on the inside of the one side, then close the other, which took care of the gap. I keep begging for a 3' extension, as to fit my milkweeds that are 5'+, but it's doing great for the 8 BST cats right now. I have my potted fennel and 2 pots of parsley in it right now. I also put a piece of burlap on top of it, to keep the cats from frying during the heat of the day. I overwintered a BST chrysalid in this cage, which was out on my deck all winter. When we had the deep chill spell, I only covered it with a sheet, to offer a probably useless bit of protection.
For my monarchs, I simply use Glad containers, cutting out the center of the tops and using to snap a piece of tulle in it. Luckily I don't have quite as many cats as some of the guru's in this forum. 8 containers at a time, in my house, really pisses of dh (like I even care, lol)...
Thanks Tracy for posting your cage--showed it to DH, and he may build one for me now too--he said he'd do it if it got the cats out of the house (like your DH, I suppose). :)
Is yours right on your deck? Could I keep mine on grass--or would that put cats at risk?
I've got reptarian/butterfly cages - they sure work well for me, keeping out wasps, stink bugs, and tachinid flies, and they're so convenient!
I have some little 'critter keepers' for lep eggs - I put the critter keeper inside a reptarian cage, so eggs and hatchlings are doubly protected! :)
Well, I WAS planning to lay it on the ground, but I have a horrible termite problem. I once put a wooden windowbox on the grass. When I went to move it a few days later, it was infested with termites. Same with using newspaper as mulch; lift that stuff after a while and there's termites everywhere. Unfortunately it's all part of nature though. Thankfully the lower half of our house if brick, LOL. When DH built the shed, DH didn't skimp and had a cement truck come in.
Back to the cage. I simply refused to use treated wood, due to the nature of the contents. I might put down on the ground in the future; I can always build up the bottom with a nice stack of bricks or cinderblocks. Well, I did want a few feet added, right? I actually don't like the dual doors; one would've been better, & easier IMO, I don't really know. I saw somebody elses picture that had one door, but of course, that was after the fact. The main problem I have is that it's warped. Well, it was warped from the beginning, but over time, it only gets worse. The left side I permanently close using a long screw (after adding plants & cats), otherwise there's too much of a gap and the cats could escape. I believe I used fiberglass screen, although I don't know if I can verify that or not. It was very easy to work with & flexible, and I didn't shred the skin on my hands, lol. I actually had one part that seemed to have the edge of a cut exposed, and I started freaking out when one of my cats started wandering. She was right on the jagged edge, and I thought for sure she was a goner, walking back & forth over that part. Surprisingly, everything went well & she pupated elsewhere.
My cage is heavy & bulky, and I always have the wheels turning on how and when I'll build a better, bigger one. When and if that day comes, I'll be back. I do currently have one idea in mind, something to do with one of my dd's old playhouses, which has a tubular frame that just has to be snapped in place. If I could manage to make some sort of screen or mesh cover to replace that plastic cover, it just might work! Of course, I can't find a picure...
My husband built a cage. I had him leave off the doors because I was afraid they would not close tight. He's not really a carpenter either. It is too big but seems to be working. It has no floor and I have to lift it up to feed and clean up after the cats. I have it in my garage with the garage door open. It is 3' by 4'. It is lopsided but like I said it seems to be working. I would like to try more later.
I saw a cage at a native plants nursery in Sarasota, FL several years ago that must have been home made. It was square shaped and lifted up on one end like a waffle iron - must have had a hinge or two on the opposite of the "lifting" side. I'd like to try and make one like that some day.
Amber and I built this cage last year. We communally raise 43 cats this spring. Lost one cat because it just wouldn't eat.
It was a blast. It was so much easier to clean than multiple plastic containers. We kept it in the garage so it got air and some sun, but didn't get rained on.
It's double walled to keep wasps at stringers length away.
I had my laundry basket with 15 chrysalis in it. Three butterflies emerged this week end. I took it out and sat it on top of my cage in my garage. I had 11 left this morning. When I checked 2 or 3 hours later I only had 6 left. It looks like something ate them. It made me sick. I had already had a lizard eat one earlier this summer. That is why we made the cage because I caught the lizard in my basket more than once with my cats.I used to put sticks with a chrysalis on it in potted plants which I kept in my garage. That is where the first lizard got it. I even used to bring in plants with cats on them. Now it seems that lizards have discovered this. Anyway, I have positively discovered the hard way that lizards are a real threat, not just to the cats! Nothing is safe from them.
DH made me this cage last year. It nestles into a secluded corner of my raised herb garden. Essentially its untreated 2x2 and window screening. The front screen I velcroed (not shown) to allow for easy access to plants. I put potted dill and fennel in but it's not tall enough for potted milkweed so I bury a large yogurt container, fill with water, cut a small X in the lid and insert cut milkweed. Keeps it fresh and I don't have to change it everyday. Last year I went away for a week and left about a dozen cats that way with lots of extra food and when I came back they had all formed chrysalises and there was still edible food. So far it's worked great.
I bought 2 like these (the jumbo size) but from livemonarch.org which I can not get to right now.
Ah, garnet69, YOU were my inspiration! I remember printing out your cage and handing it over to DH! Too bad I didn't recall VELCRO; it would've made my life soooooooo much easier, LOL...
rjj1; that's just sick, all those chrysalids. Absolutely incredible photo!


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3-9-2015 Federal Transportation Briefing
Passenger Rail Reauthorization
On March 4, by a vote of 316-101, the full House passed HR 749, the Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 (PRRIA). As originally reported out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, HR 749 was nearly identical to a bill reported out last year but which did not make it to the floor. However, the following amendments to HR 749 were adopted before passage in the House:
• Ensure that socially and economically disadvantaged business requests for proposals are considered for station development opportunities
• Add veteran-owned small businesses to the participation study required
• Require a study on an express service and other improvements on the NEC
• Require each state to develop a grade crossing action plan identifying specific solutions for improving safety at crossings, including highway-rail grade crossing closures or grade
• separations; and focusing on crossings that have experienced recent grade crossing accidents or multiple accidents, or are at high risk for accidents
• Require GAO to submit to Congress a report evaluating the effectiveness of the FRA's 2005 rule on the use of locomotive horns at rail crossings
• Clarify that passengers using or transporting non-motorized transportation are to be considered in the Amtrak Office of Inspector General's report on boarding procedures.
Overall, the four-year bill reauthorizes Amtrak and provides funds at, basically, current levels. Among the reforms included in the bill are provisions that: direct Northeast Corridor revenue to improvements in that corridor only; require additional transparency and cost-effectiveness; allow for private investment involving Amtrak-owned facilities; and modify the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program.
Funding/authorization expiration dates:
Sept. 30, 2015 – transportation appropriations (HR 83, T-HUD)
Sept. 30, 2019 - water resource and development programs (WRRDA of 2014)
Sept. 30, 2013 - passenger rail and freight safety programs (PRIIA of 2008)
May 31, 2015 - surface transportation programs (MAP-21 extension, in HR 5021)
Sept. 30, 2015 - aviation programs (Air Transportation Modernization & Safety Improvement Act, 2012)
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fluffy brown floating slime
periodically I get poufs of fluffy brown stuff floating in my pond. When I net them out, they turn to slime. The last couple days, there have been lots; most of the time there aren't any.
What the heck are they? My pond looks good otherwise, fairly clear water, happy, active fish.
I call them puffy pooh balls, but decided not to use that as thread title...
I had the same issue before....it comes and goes. when you grab the puffy pooh balls, do they seem foamy? I had that slime grow on my waterfall rocks and I would have to gently pull it off....I hated that stuff. :(
I think it's kind of like a blanket weed, but brownish in color...I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about. After a couple years, mine went away.
I think it's either something different from what you have or manifesting itself differently. This stuff forms discrete puffy clumps an inch to 4 inches in diameter.
Since it's puffy in the water but collapses into slime as soon as I take it out or disturb it, I suspect it has something to do with gas (methane?) forming on the bottom, then lifting the yummy nitrogen-rich sediment to the top. I dump it on pond-side plants; they don't object.


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Walnuts before squirrels get them
I have a huge walnut tree that bears huge nuts. Is there any way to harvest them before hull cracks? I have tried before, but can't seem to remove the hulls. The squirrels will clean out that whole magnificent tree before I can ever get to them (in one night). Also what and when can I spray them for the maggot that they get?
I have a large (~40' x 40') Eastern black walnut and wish that I had your problems. The walnuts begin to slowly fall in the summer and ramp up like crazy in September and October. I typically fill about three yard waste bins with walnuts alone each October. You most likely have a different species of walnut than I (or much hungrier squirrels).
My wife has hulled them in the past, and I believe that she used a hammer. If you have an Eastern black walnut, be sure to wear rubber gloves while removing the husks. Otherwise, your hands will be a lovely dark gray color for several weeks.
You might try posting on the fruit & orchards forum, they discuss squirrel vs. man a lot. In the case of a large tree, they will likely recommend eliminating or reducing the squirrel population.
Often, keeping all branches pruned well off the ground and away from other objects, and then devising an elaborate zero-friction trunk surround so that squirrels cannot climb it, is effective. If squirrels are currently living in the tree, they must be eliminated.
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The point of having an air pump at home is that you don't let your tire pressure get down to 10 psi....
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LeaseWeb, the Dutch-based infrastructure provider, is expanding its public cloud infrastructure to the US, figuring to be cheaper than Rackspace and Amazon.
The multi-tenant widgetry is designed for maximum redundancy and uses the open source CloudStack platform Citrix turned over to the Apache Foundation at its core. It likes KVM for virtualization and its fast network-attached storage is based on a Nexenta platform.
The hungry newcomer is offering four CPU and memory packages ranging from $16 a month to $99 a month.
Sixteen bucks will buy a single core machine with a half a gig of memory, 40 gigs of storage and 500 gigs free bandwidth. Ninety-nine bucks buys quad-core VMs, four gigs of memory, 160 gigs of storage and the same free bandwidth. All instances are automatically firewalled and it just takes a credit card.
LeaseWeb says Rackspace is three times more expensive and Amazon's pricing is so complicated it's hard to estimate.
Customers can spin up and scale cloud servers at the push of a button complements of a portal designed to provision and manage the high-speed networking, compute, memory and storage resources.
The launch is part of the company's strategy to expand its global IaaS footprint. It's targeting SMBs, non-US businesses and the finance, real estate and insurance sectors.
LeaseWeb entered the US market in January 2011 with a new headquarters and data center in Virginia that offered customers instant physical servers. Now it's supporting virtual resources too. LeaseWeb USA CEO William Schrader says, "Our historical success underpins this latest development as we take our first step into the US cloud market."
Robert van der Meulen, LeaseWeb's cloud manager said, "The launch of LeaseWebCloud in the US is a particularly exciting step in LeaseWeb's global cloud offering. Many of our customers have been asking for the product in the US as they want to build infrastructure that spreads across European and American data centers; we've listened to them and here it is."
LeaseWeb, which is part of the OCOM Group, one of Europe's largest Internet infrastructure and hosting companies, claims 15,000 customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises services like BMW, Bose, Kasperksy Labs, Starbucks and Wikimedia and includes support for public cloud, private cloud, hybrid hosting, colocation and dedicated hosting.
It's got more than 50,000 servers under management and has provided infrastructure for mission-critical web sites, Internet applications, e-mail servers, security, and storage services since 1997.
The company operates eight data centers in the US and Europe with a total capacity of more than three Tbps.
LeaseWeb partners with Microsoft, VMware, IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper, cPanel and Parallels.
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Docker is an excellent platform for organizations interested in running microservices. It offers portability and consistency between development and production environments, quick provisioning times, and a simple way to isolate services. In his session at DevOps Summit at 16th Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, will walk through these and other benefits of using Docker to run microservices, and provide an overview of RancherOS, a minimalist distribution of Linux designed expressly to run Docker. He will also discuss Rancher, an orchestration and service discovery platf...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Solgenia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Solgenia is the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions. Designed to "Bridge the Gap" between Personal and Professional Social, Mobile and Cloud user experiences, our solutions help large and medium-sized organizations dr...
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... amount of time there, looking at most things twice. The architecture of the building was gorgeous too of course. However, the rest of the town was not really built as nicely, I think Barcelona and Lyon win on style of architecture, but it was still a nice place. I don't really think you need more than a day though to be honest, it's quite small. I also took the hike up to Castell de ...
... warm and muggy. Paul is still wearing his shorts and t shirt and we've had to turn the heating off in the van!!
St Cyprien is definitely a boat lovers town, the harbours were huge and crammed with expensive yatchs, and traditional fishing boats who sell their catch on the quayside every morning (if you get up early enough)! This is contrasted by the less glamorous high rise apartment buildings and the tacky seaside shops and ...
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Skimmer/Suction Pump instead of sump pump
Had a plumber come to advise me on a possible sump pump installation, and he advised against it as I'm so close to a small river that floods he thought my water table might be just under my foundation (just had a flood in early march that came up from underneath after a snowy winter and subsequently a week of 2 heavy rains).
He suggested I instead look into getting a 'skimmer pump' which I could have on the floor at my low spot, and next to it put an alarm for water. In other words, if we had an unusual amount of rain and water started coming in, I could turn the skimmer pump on and pump the water out through a hose. He said skimmer pumps can suction water at any level (ie they don't require a certain amount of water to work as most utility pumps do).
Any idea where I could get one of these pumps online?
You can check out McMaster-Carr at the link below, though Lowes, Tractor Supply, Home Depot, Menards, etc also carry skimmer pumps.
I prefer the one without an intake hose, McMaster-Carr's 3023K41, as the ones with an intake hoser can be a nuisance to prime. Skimmers can pump down to about 1/8" of water and should be monitored so they don't run dry (the water being pumped also cools the pump mechanism).
Here is a link that might be useful: McMaster-Carr
Thanks for the info- very helpful.
I also found this Koshin model- any thought on this (It says it can pump down to a level of 1 mm):


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Tu to Su from 11:00 AM to 05:00 PMIt's hard to state simply exactly what the Art Alliance does. There are exhibits of contemporary work, such as the Andy Warhol retrospective, but there are also poetry readings, art and travel lectures, play readings, chamber concerts, and the occasional dance concert or performance art installation. The building itself is a magnificent 1906 mansion designed by Charles Klauder of Frank Miles Day & Brothers Architects. On the premises is Opus 251, a quiet restaurant that takes advantage of the garden in back.
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Prince Harry says he killed Afghan insurgents during tour
LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry says he killed Afghan insurgents during sorties against the Taliban while on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan where he was a gunner in Apache attack helicopters.
The Queen's 28-year-old grandson, third in line to the throne, will return home later this week after a 20-week posting with NATO forces at the Camp Bastion military base in the southern province of Helmand.
Britain's Prince Harry says killed Afghan insurgents during tour
LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Britain's Prince Harry says he
killed Afghan insurgents during sorties against the Taliban
while on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan where he was a
gunner in Apache attack helicopters.
Queen Elizabeth's 28-year-old grandson, third in line to the
British throne, will return home later this week after a 20-week
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Algeria crisis forces British PM to delay Europe speech
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron postponed on Thursday a much-anticipated speech on Britain's future role in the European Union because of the hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant where Britons are believed to be among those held.
A somber-looking Cameron warned people to expect "bad news" after Algerian forces launched an operation to free the hostages from Islamist militants, saying one Briton had already been killed when the site was stormed on Wednesday.
Helicopter crashes into crane on London tower, kills two
LONDON (Reuters) – A helicopter crashed into a crane on top of one of Europe's tallest residential blocks in central London on Wednesday, killing two people as it burst into flames and threw plumes of smoke into the foggy air.
Police said there was nothing to indicate that the crash on the south bank of the River Thames was linked to an attack on London, where 52 commuters were killed in rush hour suicide bombings in 2005.
Rival EU camps turn up pressure on UK's Cameron
LONDON (Reuters) – European Union supporters and opponents turned up the pressure on British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday as a poll showed most Britons wanted a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU although the number supporting withdrawal had fallen.
Cameron is expected to deliver a major speech this month in which he will set out plans to renegotiate Britain's position within the 27-member EU, along with the terms of a historic vote on the subject that could help define Britain's role in international affairs for decades.
Prolific sex abuser Savile "groomed a nation": UK police
LONDON (Reuters) – The late British TV presenter Jimmy Savile, honored by both the queen and the pope, sexually assaulted hundreds of people, mainly children, at BBC premises and hospitals over six decades of unparalleled abuse, a police-led report said on Friday.
Savile, one of Britain's biggest TV stars in the 1970s and 1980s, abused youngsters at 13 hospitals where he did voluntary work as a porter and fundraiser, and even at a hospice treating terminally ill patients.
Support for UK anti-EU party grows over gay marriage
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's anti-European Union party has scooped up support from voters traditionally loyal to Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives after the government announced plans to allow gay couples to marry, three polls showed on Sunday.
A large number of Conservative lawmakers as well as the Church of England oppose the plans for same-sex marriage announced on Tuesday, although the move is generally popular across the country.
Family of royal hoax nurse tell of "unfillable void"
LONDON (Reuters) – The family of a nurse who apparently committed suicide after taking a prank call at the hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife Kate delivered a tearful tribute to her on Saturday, saying her death had left "an unfillable void".
Jacintha Saldanha was found hanged from a wardrobe with injuries to her wrist in staff lodgings at London's King Edward VII hospital days after she answered the hoax call from an Australian radio station and put it through to a colleague who divulged details of Kate's health.
UK pays out to family "rendered" to Gaddafi's Libya
LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) – The British government agreed to
pay more than 2 million pounds($3.2 million) on Thursday to the
family of a leading opponent of the late Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi who says Britain was involved in his rendition to
Tripoli where he was tortured.
Sami al-Saadi, who had for years tried to avoid Gaddafi's
agents, was abducted with his wife and four young children in
Hong Kong in 2004, forced onto a plane and flown to Libya where
they were all imprisoned.
Australia launches inquiry into royal nurse prank call
CANBERRA/LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Australia's media
regulator launched an investigation on Thursday into a prank
call by a radio station to a London hospital treating Prince
William's pregnant wife, after the nurse who took the call
committed suicide.
Jacintha Saldanha was found hanged, police told a coroner's
inquest in London, days after the 46-year-old put the hoax call
through to a colleague who disclosed details of the treatment
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