Monday, February 16, 2009

Kelly's "Do it yourself" projects

As always, Kelly is in the middle of a few interesting projects. One thing he's doing is making a very large magnetic white board to hang up in our office. He got a very large piece of wood and is currently painting it with a magnetic paint, that apparently only one Home Depot in north county has in stock. After this is dry (which might be a while, since it rained on it last night :)), he is going to paint it with white board paint. Here it is, in progress (before the rain):

The other project currently going on in our house is a beer fermentation chamber. Kelly tried to explain it to me last night but I had no idea what he was talking about. Something about computer fans (in my opinion this is just an excuse to go to Fry's) directing cold air in ways that make it colder. Here is what it's looking like so far:


The beer keg will go in the large compartment, and ice will go in the two smaller compartments. Not quite sure about the fan yet... stay tuned.



And here's my favorite project... torturing Kelly with my photography experiments...

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  1. TheAnchorBendFebruary 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    Nooooooooo! I have a whole can of magnetic paint! Two years ago I tried to make a magnetic chalk board (maybe this is an Irvin thing?) and of course I only used about 4 tablespoons of a $12 can of magnetic paint. Too bad, I could have given Kel the rest! Or, alternatively, I could paint a whole wall of the apartment with it. That has definite possibilities.

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  2. Dr. TeethFebruary 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM

    How small was this chalkboard? I can't imagine it became very magnetic with only 4T of paint on it :)

    If you try using the rest: (1) start with a very smooth surface, like a piece of melamine, and (2) make sure it's not raining when you paint, as it will NEVER dry out.

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