{"id":534,"date":"2010-07-13T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2010-07-13T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:27:17","slug":"july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"July&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been working, albeit slowly, on <strong>Calliope #5<\/strong>. Goals for this one are that it be more <strong>compact<\/strong> and still have a larger <strong>plenum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a better type of <strong>solenoid valve<\/strong> that has a much higher <strong>flow rate<\/strong> and they only cost $30.- apiece. That means that finally, FINALLY I&#8217;ll have a calliope that doesn&#8217;t require an <strong>air compressor<\/strong> to do its thing: the ass end of a <strong>vacuum cleaner<\/strong> ought to be sufficient. That&#8217;ll reduce the electrical load and it&#8217;ll also reduce background noise substantially.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve adopted a different <strong>attachment method<\/strong> using pipe-to-tube fittings that eliminates the hassle  of unscrewing the solenoid assembly from the valve if a little local work is required.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post photos to <strong>flickr<\/strong> one day soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile back at the ranch <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>I&#8217;m still broke and looking for odd jobs<\/strong><\/span>. The good news is I&#8217;ve turned <strong>64<\/strong> and I&#8217;m counting down the days until I can tell that <strong>bloodsucking leech<\/strong> Blue Cross, who still tap us to the tune of <strong>$1,800\/month<\/strong>, to go take a flying fuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been working, albeit slowly, on Calliope #5. Goals for this one are that it be more compact and still have a larger plenum. I&#8217;ve found a better type of solenoid valve that has a much higher flow rate and they only cost $30.- apiece. That means that finally, FINALLY I&#8217;ll have a calliope that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,57,17,56],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-calliope","category-projects","category-shop","tag-calliope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}