Cat Hutch Attachment for Caravan

Cat Window Hutch for Caravan

Frame parts made from plumbing conduit. The elbows and tees for electrical were unsuitable. I believe these are plumbing elbows and tees.
Pipe and fitting size for 27mm OD pipe.

8 Tee pieces
8 Elbows
16 lengths pipe 40mm (joiners)
4 lengths pipe 970mm (part A)
2 lengths pipe 610mm (part B)
2 lengths pipe 560mm (part C)
2 lengths pipe 400mm (part D)
2 lengths pipe 210mm (part E)

To fit over a wider window just increase the lengths of parts A.

To fit over a higher window just increase the lengths of parts B and E by the same amount.

To make it deeper is more complicated as it effects multiple parts. In the above frame the angle of the slope is 45 degrees.

Example:
To increase the depth (D) by 50mm while maintain the angle at 45 degrees of the roof.
Add 50mm to parts D. Also add 50mm to parts B and E and cut parts C to 1.4 times the length of parts D. This also makes the frame higher by 50mm but simplifies calculating the new length of part C and maintains the slope to 45 degrees..

I glued the front and back rectangles to make them rigid, being careful to maintain the angles of the Tee pieces. The parts C and D were kept removable to allow flat packing of the frame. When assembled, tapped firmly together and the cover fixed on with Velcro, the whole enclosure is very rigid. The cover is made from good quality shade cloth and polypropylene tarp. The sail rope edge is part of the roof. It is sewn together with an industrial sewing machine.

A piece of sail track is fixed at an appropriate distance above the window to allow the hutch hang over the window. It is then self supporting. An extra hammock of tarp fits internally between the parts D – D (using Velcro) for extra strength.

Callie loves her hutch.

Jim's One Week Wash

This sugar wash is simple and very fast. Pitch the yeast one weekend and distil the next.

If you are looking for a really neutral wash that is as convenient as Turbo Yeast but without the high cost or strong odours, then give this a try. It can be conveniently made up into nutrient packs ready to go.

Just dissolve the sugar then nutrients, then make up to 25 litres and sprinkle on the instant dry yeast such as Lowan.

Link to pdf: Jim's One Week Wash (a fast, reliable sugar wash for home distillers)

Old Postcards of Weymouth, UK.

These postcard were sent to my grandmother in Australia from her family in Weymouth. We are making these scans available to the public domain. Feel free to download them.

An Automatic, Fractionating Reflux Still

This still design is aimed at the beginner and experienced alike. Full plans and procedures are included in the pdf file linked below.

The Guide is available under a Creative Commons License. Please acknowledge this site as the origin by including a link to this page when sharing or referring to the guide.

Not only a good looking still but if build and operated as described you will get product at a consistent 95% purity with ease. Additionally it is a dream to clean as it completely disassembles in a minute or so.

The Guide is frequently updated so check in occasionally.

Instructions: The Automatic Reflux Fractionating Still

Copyright  James Goulter 2004 (Last updated May 2020)

Heroes

They worked by nights and secret days

To search, to find, explore the ways

Of nature, maths, technology.

It set their minds and spirits free.

When names are hidden there's no voice,

Though science was their tool of choice,

They dared not show their true degree

Of science knowledge, history.

In time their work was hailed wide

For insights taken in their stride

To solve big questions hard and tough

among their peers astute and rough.

But were it known the truth about

These wondrous minds... Without a doubt

Their work so full of true surprise

Would not have seen their work arise.

To grace our learning in good time

They had to lie about about their kind.

For women were not deemed to be

Astute enough for them to see.

What once was hid, then truth revealed

Dismissive males ruled the field

When meeting minds of equal strength

In women, men would baulk at length.

The glory deemed by right of rule,

Served by their god who was their tool

Created by the male mind

To trample, stifle, blame, define.

Though times were changing, still the fight

For true exposure to the light

For which they worked so hard each day

Is slipping back the other way.

A tide of darkness on the rise

To once again enslave, despise,

The fundamental myths of old

Resurgent worldwide, cruel and cold.

James Noel © 27^th January 2020

Dedicated to the Women of the Human Race.

Divisibility Rule for 7 and Other Interesting facts

Here is a divisibility rule for the number 7 that, with a little practice, is simple enough to perform on large numbers.

See also my mental arithmetic divisibility rule for 7 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq05Y79i4Fs&t=21s